Jedd H. Wider
As global head of Morgan Lewis’s investment management practice, Jedd H. Wider focuses on global private investment funds, particularly hedge, private equity, secondary, and venture capital funds. He represents leading global financial institutions, fund managers, and institutional investors in their roles as fund sponsors, placement agents, and investment entities. He guides clients through product development and capital raising, including customized arrangements, seed and lead investor arrangements, and joint ventures. Experienced in secondary transactions and complex financial structuring, he represents many of the world’s leading buyers, sellers, and fund general partners in portfolio sales of fund interests and GP-led transactions.
Jedd concentrates on all aspects of bespoke fund products and arrangements, including funds of one and managed accounts, and he regularly advises clients on all aspects of regulatory compliance. Members of the international media often seek out Jedd for his views on the secondary, hedge fund, and private equity fund industries and capital markets. His analysis can be found in US and international publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and The Financial Times, as well as on television networks such as Bloomberg and CNN. Jedd is recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global for his work in hedge funds and private equity fund formation. He is also recommended by The Legal 500 US for his work in alternative/hedge funds and private equity funds.
Jedd lectures and serves as a panelist on private investment fund topics for trade programs and organizations around the world. He has delivered speeches and presentations to numerous private fund conferences such as the Hedge Fund Institutional Forum, Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Limited Partners Summit, Endowments & Foundations Roundtable, Association of Life Insurance Counsel, National Association of Public Pension Fund Attorneys (NAPPA), West Legalworks, InfoVest21 Hedge Fund Conference, the Annual Euromoney Summit of European Hedge Funds in London, Capital Roundtable Fund Conferences, the Annual International Conference on Private Investment Funds in London, the Wharton Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference, the On Point Investors and Hedge Fund Risk Summit, and the Lazard Capital Markets Hedge Fund Conference.
He serves as an editorial board member of The Journal of Investment Compliance and as an editor of the Morgan Lewis Hedge Fund Deskbook: Legal and Practical Guide for a New Era published by Thomson Reuters/West. He regularly publishes articles on developments in the hedge fund and private equity fund industries. He co-leads the Annual Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference and leads Morgan Lewis’s Hedge Fund University Webinar Series.
Jedd clerked for Judge Nicholas Politan of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey and for US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani of the Southern District of New York.
He is conversant in French.
