Jonathan A. Koff

Jonathan Koff is a partner and member of Chapman's Corporate and Securities Department and Investment Management Group. He has extensive experience representing registered investment advisers, independent trustees, and funds registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 in connection with all aspects involved in a fund complex. He has significant experience with both new products and ongoing matters including numerous public offerings of closed-end and exchange-traded funds. Jonathan has also been involved in the defense of numerous closed-end funds against activist campaigns. He has represented sponsors and investors in private funds and he has worked with attorneys throughout the firm in structuring transactions to fall within exemptions from the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Acts.

Jonathan's experience also includes extensive work in the corporate and securities area with an emphasis on traditional corporate securities transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, representation of investment banking firms in merger and acquisition advisory assignments and rendering fairness opinions, representation of special committees and independent directors in change of control transactions, joint venture arrangements, and advising publicly held companies on an ongoing basis with respect to federal securities laws matters.

Jonathan joined Chapman after graduating law school and has been practicing at the firm his entire career.