Arie Heijkoop Jr., who has significant experience helping fund sponsors launch registered funds, has joined Haynes Boone as a partner in the firm’s Investment Management Practice.
Arie will be based in Washington, D.C., where he has practiced for most of his career following his graduation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Arie focuses on advising asset managers and fund sponsors, registered funds, and trusts, and independent directors on various legal, transactional, and compliance matters. In his career, he has regularly advised fund management on a range of operational activities, including the formation, operation, merger, and liquidations of open- and closed-end mutual funds, ETFs, variable insurance products and business development companies. He has been involved in numerous new product launches, such as volatility managed variable products, liquid alternative strategies, ESG products, and thematic exchange-traded fund products.
“We are thrilled to add a lawyer like Arie who has handled so many complex transactions involving an array of fund products,” said Haynes Boone Managing Partner Taylor Wilson. “He will be a tremendous asset to our clients, and he builds on the momentum in our Investment Management Practice, which has added partners recently in California and London and plans on further growth.”
Arie joins Haynes Boone from Sullivan & Worcester, where he was a member of the firm’s Investment Management and Corporate Governance & Board Advisory Practices. Among other matters, his experience includes representing open-end registered funds and their board members in the financial services industry about routine and non-routine issues, such as new and ongoing compliance matters, disclosure issues, reorganizations of funds and investment advisers, engagement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators, and advising closed-end fund managers and their independent directors on offerings, proxies, tender offers, investor interactions, and co-investment transactions.
“I was drawn to Haynes Boone because of its reputation for successfully representing financial companies and investment funds in industries with innovative participants and transactions that are cutting edge,” Arie said. “My skillset fits in perfectly with the firm’s Investment Management and related practice groups, along with the firm’s friendly, collaborative culture.”
Haynes Boone’s Investment Management Practice Group assists with the formation and ongoing operation of investment funds engaging in a spectrum of investment activities from general investment in listed stocks to targeted acquisitions in a variety of industries, including in technology, energy, and real property, businesses, or investments. The firm represents both domestic and offshore primary investment vehicles and funds of funds and serves as lead outside counsel to numerous investment funds that combined have tens of billions of dollars in assets under management.
Haynes Boone is an international corporate law firm with 18 offices in Texas, New York, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai, providing a full spectrum of legal services in energy, technology, financial services and private equity. With 600 lawyers, Haynes Boone is ranked among the largest U.S.-based firms by The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and The Lawyer. It was recognized in the BTI Consulting Group’s 2022 “A-Team” report, which identifies the law firms that in-house counsel commend for providing superior client service.
Arie will be based in Washington, D.C., where he has practiced for most of his career following his graduation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Arie focuses on advising asset managers and fund sponsors, registered funds, and trusts, and independent directors on various legal, transactional, and compliance matters. In his career, he has regularly advised fund management on a range of operational activities, including the formation, operation, merger, and liquidations of open- and closed-end mutual funds, ETFs, variable insurance products and business development companies. He has been involved in numerous new product launches, such as volatility managed variable products, liquid alternative strategies, ESG products, and thematic exchange-traded fund products.
“We are thrilled to add a lawyer like Arie who has handled so many complex transactions involving an array of fund products,” said Haynes Boone Managing Partner Taylor Wilson. “He will be a tremendous asset to our clients, and he builds on the momentum in our Investment Management Practice, which has added partners recently in California and London and plans on further growth.”
Arie joins Haynes Boone from Sullivan & Worcester, where he was a member of the firm’s Investment Management and Corporate Governance & Board Advisory Practices. Among other matters, his experience includes representing open-end registered funds and their board members in the financial services industry about routine and non-routine issues, such as new and ongoing compliance matters, disclosure issues, reorganizations of funds and investment advisers, engagement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulators, and advising closed-end fund managers and their independent directors on offerings, proxies, tender offers, investor interactions, and co-investment transactions.
“I was drawn to Haynes Boone because of its reputation for successfully representing financial companies and investment funds in industries with innovative participants and transactions that are cutting edge,” Arie said. “My skillset fits in perfectly with the firm’s Investment Management and related practice groups, along with the firm’s friendly, collaborative culture.”
Haynes Boone’s Investment Management Practice Group assists with the formation and ongoing operation of investment funds engaging in a spectrum of investment activities from general investment in listed stocks to targeted acquisitions in a variety of industries, including in technology, energy, and real property, businesses, or investments. The firm represents both domestic and offshore primary investment vehicles and funds of funds and serves as lead outside counsel to numerous investment funds that combined have tens of billions of dollars in assets under management.
Haynes Boone is an international corporate law firm with 18 offices in Texas, New York, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Washington, D.C., London, Mexico City and Shanghai, providing a full spectrum of legal services in energy, technology, financial services and private equity. With 600 lawyers, Haynes Boone is ranked among the largest U.S.-based firms by The National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and The Lawyer. It was recognized in the BTI Consulting Group’s 2022 “A-Team” report, which identifies the law firms that in-house counsel commend for providing superior client service.
