Basil V. Godellas

Basil V. Godellas

Chicago, IL recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2025
Winston & Strawn LLP

136 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law

Biography

Basil represents companies in the asset management industry with in regulatory and transactional matters. He regularly counsels clients in connection with structuring and forming private investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, commodity pools, commingled funds, alternative investments and credit funds, group trusts and collective investment trusts, new product development, securities offerings, and related filing obligations, investment management compliance matters, acquisitions, divestitures, and domestic and cross-border reorganizations.

Basil has structured and documented numerous onshore and offshore funds, including “master feeder” funds, multi-class funds, series funds, and segregated portfolio companies. He has represented an international investment bank in connection with its acquisition of a futures commission merchant, a large investment manager in connection with its reorganization and the spin-off of its alternative investments business division, and the private banking division of a European bank in connection with its acquisition of a registered U.S. investment adviser.

Basil also advises a number of clients with respect to digital assets and blockchain technology.

Winston & Strawn LLP

136 Best Lawyers awards

Winston & Strawn LLP logo

Overview

  • Loyola University Chicago, J.D., graduated 1991
  • Loyola University Chicago, J.D., graduated 1991

Client Testimonials

Basil Godellas is a pleasure to work with. He understands our business, has excellent communication skills, and his pragmatism is a rarity in the current environment. Last year, Basil helped us set up a pooled trust for a very large institutional client. He was quick and responsive to our tight time constraints. The feedback from the client's general counsel was that the documentation was the best they had seen.

Jane Goss (Mondrian Investment Partners Limited)

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law

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