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• PRIVATE INVESTMENT FUNDS (HEDGE FUNDS)
• SECURITIES TRANSACTIONS & REGULATION

• CALIFORNIA
•  NEW YORK

Mark R. Diamond is Of Counsel to the Hamburger Law Firm and manages its office in northern California.  His current work concentrates in the legal representation of hedge funds, broker-dealers and other financial institutions in connection with fund structuring and documentation, regulatory and compliance matters, regulatory audits and investigations, and transaction structuring and documentation.

Mark has been practicing corporate and securities law for over 25 years.  After 10 years in private practice with Coudert Brothers, an international law firm (and predecessor firms), where he specialized in corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions, Mark became in-house counsel and compliance officer for major Wall Street firms, including Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, Wasserstein Perella and Robertson Stephens.  While at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank, Mark spent five years in Hong Kong as legal counsel for Asian matters and, at Deutsche Bank, as a member of the equity derivatives structuring group.  At Wasserstein Perella, Mark was Director of Compliance and legal counsel for the equity and high yield sales and trading businesses.  At Robertson Stephens, Mark was in charge of legal matters for the institutional and retail sales and trading and asset management businesses and participated in creating several hedge fund products.  Mark then spent two years as General Counsel for a hedge fund management company with approximately $800 million in assets under management.  While there, he structured and helped launch a number of hedge funds, including Japanese and European funds and managed complex employment issues.  Mark was then engaged by the San Francisco law firm of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin to develop compliance policies and procedures for the firm’s investment adviser client base.

Mark is admitted to the bar in California and New York and has passed the Series 7 (General Securities Representative) and Series 24 (General Securities Principal) examinations.  Mark graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's Degree in General Studies.  He then attended the University of Southern California Law School where he earned his Juris Doctor.

Mark lives with his wife, Ellen, and their two daughters, Alyssa and Kimberly, in Berkeley, California.