James G. Silk Partner MAIN OFFICE: Washington Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 1875 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006-1238, U.S.A. T 202-303-1275 F 202-303-2275

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James G. Silk is a partner in the Asset Management Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington. Mr. Silk has a broad corporate practice with particular focus in the investment management area. He regularly counsels investment advisers, private equity and hedge funds, registered investment companies and business development companies across a broad spectrum of transactional and regulatory issues. He has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations involving funds and their advisers. He also routinely provides advice on the formation and operation of alternative products, such as hedge funds and private equity funds, as well as on new product development.

Mr. Silk is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. Bar Associations.

Mr. Silk is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching a course on hedge funds and other private funds.

Mr. Silk is a frequent speaker and writer, including co-authoring "Considering the SEC’s Proposed Guidance for Fund Boards on Portfolio Trading Practices," The Investment Lawyer (December 2008) and "Consolidation and Divestiture: Recent Trends in Asset Management Mergers and Acquisitions," The Investment Lawyer (November 2005).

Selected Recent Significant Matters

• Represented Ares Capital Corp., a business development company, on regulatory matters in connection with its pending acquisition of Allied Capital Corp. in a stock-for-stock transaction estimated at $648 million.
  
  
• Represented Deutsche Bank RREEF Alternative Investments, Deutsche Bank’s real estate advisory business, in its divestiture of its real property management business.
  
  
• Represented Macquarie Group Ltd., Australia’s largest financial services and investment firm, on regulatory matters in connection with its $428 million acquisition of Delaware Investments Holding Inc. from Lincoln Financial Group.
  
  
• Represented Neuberger Berman on regulatory matters in connection with the acquisition by its senior management team from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. of a majority interest in Neuberger Berman’s business and the fixed income and alternative asset management businesses of Lehman Brothers’ Investment Management Division.
  
  
• Represented Credit Suisse Group to AG as U.S. counsel in its sale of certain fund management assets and businesses to Aberdeen Asset Management PLC.
  
  
• Acted as counsel to Neuberger Berman in connection with the formation and launch of its newest billion-dollar private equity fund of funds.