Jesse P. Kanach
PartnerCo-Chair, Private Investment Funds
Jesse Kanach is co-chair of the firm’s private investment funds practice and provides comprehensive advice on all aspects of the asset management industry. He represents a broad range of clients from domestic and international investment advisers and private funds — including hedge funds, venture capital funds, private equity funds, private credit funds, real estate funds, and cryptocurrency funds — to family offices and regulated investment companies such as business development companies (BDCs). Jesse has experience in counseling registered fund clients on their launches of private funds and counseling private fund clients on their entry into the registered fund space, including the launch of interval funds and discretionary repurchase funds of private funds, as well as conversions of private funds into registered funds. The retailization or democratization of private markets investments continues to be an important part of his practice. Since mid-2025, Jesse has been a vice chair of the Private Funds Subcommittee of the American Bar Association.
Sought after for his cutting-edge work advising on regulatory and compliance developments, Jesse offers clients pragmatic solutions to multi-layered issues. Jesse has a particular focus on private funds and registered or exempt reporting advisers, navigating clients among complex U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations, regulatory examinations and enforcement actions. He also assists general partner (GP) or manager entities and their principals on GP formations and internal disputes and on matters concerning fund investors.
Jesse has experience with clients that select and form a variety of innovative investment vehicle structures, such as onshore-offshore master-feeders, mini-masters, parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles and special purpose vehicles (SPVs) for making venture capital investments. He advises on digital asset matters, from advising on tokenized money market funds, to GENIUS Act compliance for issuers or funds that back stablecoins, to the most innovative token creators on securities, commodities (including gold), financial, utility, and artificial intelligence (AI) compute credits matters. He has counseled investment advisers undergoing reorganizations, including some of the largest global asset manager acquisitions. He regularly negotiates on behalf of institutional investors regarding private fund terms and side letters. He has also analyzed hundreds of operating companies with respect to avoiding status as an investment company.
As far back as 2013, The Legal 500 noted that Jesse’s “calm delivery of wise counsel in tough situations is remarkable” for both hedge funds and mutual funds.
