MICHAEL R. BUTOWSKY Partner, Jones Day, New York City. Michael Butowsky's principal areas of practice include advising investment advisers with respect to legal and compliance matters (including issues relating to registration and additional SEC filings, disclosure, conflicts of interests, soft dollars and best execution, allocations of investment opportunities, the structuring of compliance programs, and SEC exams); advising clients with respect to the formation of, and offering of interests in, private investment funds (e.g., hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative asset vehicles) and investors with respect to investments in funds; broker-dealers with respect to the negotiation of soft-dollar and other brokerage arrangements; and companies with respect to investment adviser, broker-dealer and investment company "status" issues.
Mr. Butowsky has written extensively and is a frequent speaker at financial services industry conferences.