Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
Timothy P. "Tim" Selby
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2018 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Tim Selby is the leader of the Investment Management Team at Alston & Bird and serves on the firm’s Partners’ Committee. He focuses his practice on advising clients with respect to the structuring and management of hedge funds, managed futures funds, private equity funds and publicly offered direct participation programs. He represents a broad range of clients, employing a wide variety of alternative investment strategies, from well-established institutions to experienced fund managers that have decided to build their own asset management firms.
Tim advises clients with respect to compliance with, and exemptions from, the Investment Company Act of 1940, Investment Advisers Act of 1940, Commodity Exchange Act, Securities Act of 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, SEC and CFTC regulations, and NFA and FINRA rules.
Before practicing law, Tim was licensed and practiced as a CPA.
Overview
- St. John's University, J.D., graduated 1993
- Iona College, MBA, graduated 1990
- Iona College, BBA, graduated 1987
- New York, New York
- Futures Industry Association - Member
- International Bar Associations, Investment Funds Committee - Member
- Managed Funds Association, CPO/CTA Committee - Member
- New York City Bar Association, Committee on Futures and Derivatives Regulation - Past Chairman
- New York City Bar Association, Private Investment Funds Committee - Member
- New York Hedge Fund Roundtable - Board of Directors, Chairman, President
- New York, New York
- Futures Industry Association - Member
- International Bar Associations, Investment Funds Committee - Member
- Managed Funds Association, CPO/CTA Committee - Member
- New York City Bar Association, Committee on Futures and Derivatives Regulation - Past Chairman
- New York City Bar Association, Private Investment Funds Committee - Member
- New York Hedge Fund Roundtable - Board of Directors, Chairman, President
- St. John's University, J.D., graduated 1993
- Iona College, MBA, graduated 1990
- Iona College, BBA, graduated 1987
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Private Funds / Hedge Funds Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
- Commercial Transactions / UCC Law
- Derivatives and Futures Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securities Regulation
Special Focus:
- COVID-19
News & Media
Case History
Cases
- Fund
- Established an alternative investment fund platform for an institutional investment manager.
- Advises a mutual fund complex in connection with ’40 Act funds investing in futures and derivative instruments.
- Assisted a U.S. fund manager in connection with the public offering of a private equity fund focused on investing in India cross-border transactions that is publicly offered on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in the United Kingdom.
- Counsel to the asset management group of a major investment bank in connection with the formation of a global macro master-feeder fund.
- Commodity Pool
Counsel to the managed futures group of a major investment bank in connection with the formation of multi-tiered commodity pools.
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