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Nicholas S. Hodge

Partner
Boston
+1.617.261.3210
Fax +1.617.261.3175

Primary Practice

Secondary Practices

Education

  • J.D., Yale Law School, 1981
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1976, (summa cum laude)

Admissions

  • Bar of Massachusetts
  • United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • Biography Overview
  • Additional Background

Mr. Hodge concentrates his practice in securities law with a focus on investment management, hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate investment trusts and partnerships, timber funds, complex partnership reorganizations, and mergers and acquisitions.  He has extensive experience in public and private offerings of securities, SEC and FINRA regulatory requirements, and Investment Advisers Act compliance.  Mr. Hodge represents numerous domestic and offshore hedge funds, ranging from startup funds to major fund complexes. His experience also includes:

  • more than twenty-five years' experience in representing hedge funds, offshore funds, master-feeder structures, and funds of funds;
  • over $2 billion in public offerings;
  • private offerings that raised a major portion of the equity financing for a client's purchase of  2.6 million acres of timberland; and
  • the sale to a public company of the largest emergency ambulance provider in New England.

Professional Background

Mr. Hodge has been a partner at several law firms in Boston.

Achievements

  • BTI Client Service All-Star 2010
  • Selected for Massachusetts Super Lawyers 2009, 2011

Professional/Civic Activities

  • American Bar Association, chair of the Subcommittee on Partnerships, Trusts and Unincorporated Associations of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities 1992-1994
  • Angel Flight Northeast (Clerk and Pro Bono Legal Counsel)

Since 1996, Mr. Hodge has provided pro bono legal services to create and maintain Angel Flight Northeast, a non-profit organization that provides free air transportation by volunteer pilots in private aircraft for medical patients and their families.  He was honored by Angel Flight Northeast at the 2006 Evening of Angels for his service to the company.

Speaking Engagements

Mr. Hodge has spoken in more than a dozen cities throughout the country on hedge funds.

Additional Information

Publications

Mr. Hodge has  authored chapters on hedge fund regulation and marketing for the third edition of Evaluating and Implementing Hedge Fund Strategies, edited by Ronald A. Lake and published by Euromoney Books.
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