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Nicholas S. Hodge  Partner
Boston  +1.617.261.3210
Fax +1.617.261.3175
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Areas of Practice Professional Background Professional/Civic Activities Speaking Engagements Court Admissions Bar Admissions Education Achievements Additional Information

Areas of Practice

Mr. Hodge concentrates his practice in securities law with a focus on investment management, hedge 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 Company 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-three 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.

Professional/Civic Activities
  • Boston  Bar Association
  • Massachusetts  Bar Association
  • 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. 

Court Admissions
  • Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit

Bar Admissions
  • Bar of Massachusetts
Education
  • J.D., Yale Law School (1981)
  • B.A., University of Pennsylvania (1976) (summa cum laude)
Achievements
  • BTI Client Service All-Star 2010
  • Selected for Massachusetts  Super Lawyers 2009

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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