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Robert Sutton is a Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP, based in its New York office, and is a member of Proskauer's Private Funds Group. He is a seasoned practitioner with over 20 years of experience counseling managers and advisers of private funds on U.S. regulatory matters related to the formation and operation of private equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure, hedge and other private funds. Rob has a deep knowledge of the market practice of asset managers and the ways in which such practices are impacted by the Investment Advisers Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act and other U.S. securities laws and regulations. From some of the largest and most sophisticated firms in the global asset management industry to start-ups and mid-sized firms, Rob’s experience includes a wide spectrum of funds and asset classes across their life cycles, as well as a wide variety of regulatory issues ranging from SEC investment adviser registration and regulation, identifying and managing conflicts of interest, SEC examinations, regulatory issues in asset management M&A transactions, regulatory issues in GP-led secondary transactions and other matters.