Joseph Suh

Joseph Suh, a partner in the New York office of Schulte Roth & Zabel, focuses on corporate and securities matters related to investment funds and financial products and he primarily represents investment managers, financial services firms, private investment funds and charitable foundations and other institutional investors. He advises his clients in connection with structuring of, or investments in, private investment funds (including hedge funds and funds of hedge funds), structured finance vehicles (including CLOs) and financial products (such as structured notes, credit derivatives, equity derivatives, total return swaps, fund-linked derivatives and fund-linked notes). Joseph, who speaks Portuguese and lived in Brazil for nine years, coordinates the firm’s Latin American client practice efforts, focusing primarily in the Brazilian investment management industry. His investment management clients include U.S. managers offering investment funds to Brazilian investors and Brazilian managers offering private investment funds to U.S. investors, and he advises them in structuring the investment funds and in connection with all related U.S. corporate, securities and investment adviser regulatory issues. 

Joseph is a member of the Securities Regulation Committee of the New York State Bar Association and its Private Investment Fund Subcommittee, the Derivatives and Structured Products Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association, the Managed Funds Association Outside Counsel Forum and the Thomson Reuters Business Law Partner Advisory Board. He co-authored “Focus On: US Investors in LatAm,” which appeared in LatAm Fund Manager, and he wrote “Negotiating FCM Client-Account Agreements for Cleared OTC Derivatives” for Thomson Reuters Accelus. He moderated and spoke at the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce panel on “Brazilian Investment Management 101: Opportunities and Challenges in Starting a Brazilian Investment Management Business,” spoke on “Diversification and Legal Considerations” at DMS Management’s 1st Annual Offshore Investment Funds Summit in São Paulo and presented “Distressed Investment Strategies” at the Structured Credit Investor Pricing, Trading & Risk Management Seminar. Joseph also has been frequently quoted by newspapers, trade publications and journals, including American Banker, Total Securitization and the Fox Business Network, on a wide variety of issues in the investment and structured products industries. Joseph obtained his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Fordham Law Review.

Selected Representations

Representation of investment managers in the United States and Brazil, dealers and issuers in connection with a wide range of investment funds, derivatives and fund-linked products, including funds of hedge funds, ABS funds, structured finance, structured products, asset-backed securities backed by loans and other financial assets, debt securities backed by private equity and hedge fund interests, hedge fund-linked notes, portable alpha trades, fund-linked derivatives, equity-linked notes and other structured notes.

Selected Publications

Selected Speaking Engagements

Memberships

The New York State Bar Association
Securities Regulation Committee of the NYSBA
Private Investment Fund Subcommittee of the Securities Regulation Committee 
    of the NYSBA
Derivatives and Structured Products Law Committee of the NYSBA
The Managed Funds Association Outside Counsel Forum
Thomson Reuters Business Law Partner Advisory Board

Other Distinctions

Cornerstone Award, Lawyers Alliance for New York, 2004

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

Prior Experience

Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, LLP
Partner, Morrison & Foerster, LLP