Panelists

Moderator: Jedd H. Wider
Partner, Morgan Lewis

Jedd H. Wider is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and a member of the firm’s Private Investment Funds Practice. Mr. Wider concentrates his practice in the structuring and formation of investment in international and domestic private investment funds. He represents leading financial institutions and investment banks as well as financial boutiques in their roles as sponsors, placement agents, and investment entities. He also has an extensive background in complex financial structurings and transactions and joint ventures. Mr. Wider's views on the hedge fund and private equity fund industries can be found in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the Financial Times, as well as on television networks such as Bloomberg and CNN. Mr. Mr. Wider is an editorial board member of The Journal of Investment Compliance. He served as a law clerk to Judge Nicholas H. Politan of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and to U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani of the Southern District of New York. Mr. Wider received his J.D., cum laude, from Tulane Law School in 1992 and was named to the Order of the Coif and admitted to the National Order of Barristers. He received his A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1989. Mr. Wider is admitted to practice in New York.