At Morgan Stanley, where he served as Executive Director of Legal Affairs, Wolfe handled legal matters for private wealth management from 2004 to 2009. Prior to joining Wood`s firm, Kanter was associate counsel in the SEC`s investment management division and a former head of the investment firm`s disclosure study. She was also a lawyer for investment manager T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and a partner in the law firms Dechert and Katten Muchin Rosenman. Chegg Inc., an educational technology company that hired a new general counsel last year, hired Moreno as assistant general counsel earlier this year. KM and the Modern Law Firm (Ark): Blog Reports Now that I`m focusing more on legal outsourcing, I have less time to attend KM conferences. So I was happy to read three blog posts by David Hobbie at Caselines about the Ark KM conference sessions last week (with the exception of October 27, 2008). See also the comments for Ark Group Conference: Knowledge Management in the Modern Law Firm of Ted Tjaden as Slaw. Ark Investment Management added three people to a seven-person unit. These include D. Forest Wolfe, a legal veteran of Angelo Gordon & Co. and Morgan Stanley, as general counsel – a position that has been vacant for five years.
In addition to Wolfe, Ark`s new legal and compliance additions this year include Chief Compliance Officer Harry Skirlis, former managing director and head of stock trading at Bank of New York Mellon Corp. At cathie Wood, rapid cash inflows following a 2020 blockbuster have led the internal legal and compliance team to nearly double this year. In recent years, Carter has also held the additional title of General Counsel for Ark`s exchange-traded funds. He has been in correspondence with the SEC this year about proposed rule changes for listings through contracts with increasingly popular special-purpose acquisition companies ark has invested in. Wood, former chief investment officer for thematic portfolios at AllianceBernstein Holdings LP, an asset management giant that rebranded its own in-house legal leadership earlier this year, co-founded Ark in 2014 jcamerlingo@arlegalaid.org (870) 972-9224 ext. 4327 The company`s other compliance experts are Romane Somaroo, chief compliance officer, and Ariel Harrison, head of due diligence and compliance, former private equity paralegal at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, according to Ark`s website. Dechert, where Kanter served as a senior financial services partner in Washington before retiring from the firm to form Ark, has previously done legal work for the wood company, according to title filings and trademark records. Kanter also advised Ark and Wood during his time in private practice.
Moore is a former Goodwin Procter partner who was hired last year after serving as general counsel for General Electric Capital Corp. In October, Ark announced plans to close its New York office this month and move its headquarters to St. Petersburg, Florida. Wood praised his firm`s new hometown for its commitment to innovation, comparing it to Austin, Texas, another city that has also become a hot spot for lawyers. Northwest Arkansas attorney Robert Rhoads successfully represented clients before the Fayetteville City Council with a 6-8 vote for the developer. T 479-973-5202 | F 479-973-5209 | rrhoads@hallestill.Com Senior Associate Attorney/National Justice Group/Beyond Opioids Wolfe is the first person to serve as General Counsel at Ark since October 2016, when former co-founder, general counsel and chief operating officer Jane Kanter resigned after just over two years with the firm. Non-legal staff in law firms I liked the Article in the New York Law Journal of October 7, 2008 Lessons for Working with Support Staff. It`s an introduction for new lawyers on how best to work with the many professionals who make law firms vibrate. My only complaint is the use of the word non-lawyer, which I think promotes the thinking of the caste system and interferes with good teamwork. Rhoads frequently represents developers and landowners in land use, zoning and municipal affairs, and often appears before council. Carter, a fair housing testing coordinator specializing in community education, spent more than four years as an attorney and compliance auditor at the New York Securities and Exchange Commission.
He was also a manager at Ernst & Young before joining Ark in 2016. Angelo Gordon announced in two securities filings on November 25, 2020 for two public entities that the company controls – AG Mortgage Investment Trust Inc. and Chicago-based direct mid-market lender Twin Brook BDC Inc. – that Moore would succeed outgoing former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer Raul Moreno on an interim basis. The latter had also been Angelo Gordon`s lead lawyer. Kanter, managing partner and interim head of the national justice group, is now a board member of the investment advisor`s main owner, 2nd Vote Value Investments LLC, and chairman of the board of highline Management Inc., which oversees the management of several public funds investing in alternative assets. Compliance partner Makenzi Cella also joined Ark after serving as a compliance analyst at King Street Capital Management LP and HSBC Securities USA Inc. Ark, managing partner of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, added Wolfe, a former Sullivan & Cromwell partner, to his staff in August, Carter said. Wolfe did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ark avoided a potential dispute over its management a year ago this month when Wood purchased an option from Resolute Investment Managers Inc. that threatened their control.
Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Wood on the matter, while Proskauer Rose and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom took over ark and Resolute, respectively, according to a statement announcing the deal. In this summary: KM and Linkedin, who work effectively with law firms, dead blog and links to reports on the Ark KM conference. Pro bono coordinator Arkansas Volunteer Lawyers for the Elderly Carter is listed under Ark`s leadership in the company`s most recent ADV form, filed with the SEC on Nov. 5, which shows it had more than $55 billion in assets under management as of Feb. 28. Wolfe and his new role are not mentioned in the document. Robert Rhoads is active in the areas of business and corporate litigation. Prior to joining Hall Estill, he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Wal-Mart Stores. Inc. He has an individual AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America in municipal litigation law.
After leaving Ark, Kanter spent two years as Managing Partner and Chief Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for San Francisco-based asset manager Manifold Partners LLC before becoming COO of 2nd Vote Advisers LLC in early 2020. Is blogging dead? LawyerKM asks in Is Blogging Dead?. He uses Sugarer but still writes a blog. Here too. I just started tweeting about twitter.com/ronfriedmann. AG Mortgage`s website says Jenny Neslin, former assistant counsel at Colony Capital Inc., an investment firm now called DigitalBridge Group Inc., joined the team as the new general counsel and corporate secretary last April.