Sidley has one of the world’s premier commodity pool practices. We assisted our clients in developing some of the first public commodity pools in the 1970s. We have organized and provide ongoing representation to hundreds of publicly offered and privately placed commodity pools and their commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors.
We provide a full range of legal services to our commodity pool clients, including advice on legal structure and other formation issues (including master-feeder, side-by-side and umbrella fund structures), derivatives and securities regulatory matters, business term alternatives, marketing arrangements, trading documentation, exchange listing, internet usage and tax and ERISA matters.