Jason M. Daniel
Partner
jdaniel@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Hedge Funds
- Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Investment Management
- Credit Funds
- Technology
- Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
- Institutional Investors
- Fund Formation
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Seeding Transactions
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
Biography
- Focuses on investment management issues.
- Represents alternative investment funds.
- Handles compliance, securities trading and reporting issues and securities issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and restructuring.
Jason focuses on securities trading and reporting advice, investment advisor compliance and registration, and securities advice in respect to M&A.
Representative Work
Securities Trading and Reporting Advice
- Represented multiple fund clients that were affiliates of issuers with the resale of securities under the Securities Act of 1933
- Advised multiple fund clients in connection with filing exemptions from Schedules 13D and G and Forms 3, 4 and 5, and in connection with determining potential exemptions from disgorgement
- Represented an activist fund in two ultimately successful proxy contests for a “short slate” of nominees to be elected to the board of directors of a public company
- Represented a distressed debt fund in connection with the sale of a portfolio company’s equity securities as a selling stockholder in an initial public offering and follow-on offerings.
- Assisted with bankruptcy structuring to address Section 13(d) and 16 issues.
EducationJ.D., Washington University School of Law, 2001
B.A., University of Missouri - Columbia, summa cum laude, 1997
J.D., Washington University School of Law, 2001
B.A., University of Missouri - Columbia, summa cum laude, 1997
Bar AdmissionsTexas
Texas
Recognitions
- Chambers USA, Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance, 2020-2024.
Affiliations and Public Service
- Member, State Bar of Texas.
- Adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University for Private Funds Law
Speeches and Publications
- Co-author, “The Direction of the SEC in the Wake of National Association of Private Fund Managers v. SEC,” Securities Regulation Law Journal, October 11, 2024.
- Panelist, “MFA First Look: SEC 13D and G Beneficial Ownership Reporting,” Managed Funds Association, October 2023.
- Panelist, “Electronic Communications Sweep: How Large and Small Investment Advisers Can Respond,” DFW Financial Services Counsel Roundtable, Dallas, February 2023.
- Panelist, “US Regulation: The Trump Impact,” Maples Investment Funds Forum, Grand Cayman, February 2019
- Panelist, “New government, new regulation, new perspective,” HFM Dallas Operational Leaders Summit, Dallas, May 2017
- Panelist, “Ask a regulator: what the SEC really wants,” HFM Dallas Operational Leaders Summit, May 2016
- Panelist, “SEC Examination Priorities and Compliance Best Practices,” Texas Hedge Fund COO/CFO Roundtable Networking Dinner, Dallas, February 2016