Since Pellegrino, LLC is focused on serving the legal needs of our clients in the budding investment management community, we thought it would be helpful to highlight some of our success stories:
• Estate/investment management boutique-client specializes in thoughtful estate/inheritance planning and assists families with investing/saving for children’s education, providing financial counsel for parents and grandparents, and also offering lifetime/existing family trust administration. “Pellegrino , LLC clients receive fast response times, over-the-top knowledge and advice, guidance on substantive areas of law, clear communication, and direct involvement of the principal attorney.”

• Investment counsel firm busy with traditional investment management structure (i.e., separate accounts/funds for un-pooling), but desires to drastically re-structure /streamline its fund set-up for more consistent and scalable growth, fewer complexities, faster launches, and greater profitability by providing universal documents and usable/adaptable vehicle structures that could be utilized with different types of investors.

• Established public-private-private investor base, very focused on legal structure requirements with prior relation experience with one of CIO’s founding law firms; however, CIO interviews several top-notch boutique hedge-fund law firms for future strategic relationship with highest priority being speed, care /attention to detail/personal touch, outstanding communication, understanding clearly what CIO needs, accessibility to principal attorney, timeliness in returning calls/emails and turn-around on deliverables.
• Private equity client whose bread and butter is to purchase specialized industries, take the target private and legally restructure through various labor and industry restructuring techniques for multi-funds where equity incentive vehicles are a key component of target management team retention and investor interplay. “Focus from Pellegrino, LLC is outstanding; the client always knows who to contact directly with emphasis that time is always of utmost importance.”

• Select Fund client has small, but widely diverse institutional investor client-base; small, but diverse hedge fund and liquid private equity practice with twelve across-the-board separate funds, some traditional, some offering leveraged strategies, retail fund access, complex governance structures in-place. “Pellegrino, LLC focus and attention to detail with fast communication timing and wise guidance, thorough with exceptional drafting/ contracts.”

Chris Pellegrino has been extremely helpful to our company on a number of legal issues. In addition to being professional and very knowledgeable, Chris is highly responsive, adaptable, and easy to work with. It is rare to find someone who possesses all of these qualities and can work in such a rapid and effective manner. Aside from Chris’ best qualities as a lawyer, he is also a great person. Life is much easier – and more enjoyable – knowing that Chris is there to assist you on legal matters as they come up.

Construction Contractor & Real Estate Developer: “Chris Pellegrino assisted us through multiple types of transactions, including a multi-location, multi-property sale and construction arm financing. He provides astute advice and practical solutions that are extremely helpful as we run our business.”

Compliance & Operations Business Unit Director for 40-person Registered Investment Adviser: “We needed several agreements reviewed, negotiated and/or drafted quickly. Chris Pellegrino was like an extension of our in-house counsel throughout the process. He ensures clients understand the nuances of different agreement types and transaction approaches and made it easy on us.”

“Pellegrino understands our business and provides us with impeccable legal advice in a way that is meaningful and useful to us.” – An Institutional Client

“In Pellegrino, we have a law firm that understands our business. Pellegrino provides practical, responsive, cost-effective advice to us. Pellegrino’s lawyers understand how investments are executed and the characteristics of those investments that should be of greatest importance to our business. Aside from investment management fund formation and investment advisor registration, Pellegrino has assisted us with a broad range of matters including NASD, SEC and NFA compliance. Pellegrino also understands the importance that on-site inspections of our hedge funds and commodity pools by such regulators are to our reputation, our investors and our business. Pellegrino has been invaluable in preparing for these regulatory occurrences.” – The Investment Management Chairman of an Institutional Client

“Pellegrino has been crucial in navigating this landscape where regulatory hurdles are the path to creating enduring businesses.” – A Family Office Client

“Reviewing with Pellegrino before engagements commences is a requirement for success.” – A Hedge Fund Client
“Navigator is the front end of process for all legal engagements at … We would not have proceeded if we did not have a working relationship with Pellegrino.” – A Private Equity Fund Client

“Pellegrino is the go-to firm for all legal work at … and without them we would not have closed.” – A Registered Investment Advisor Client