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Cody Vitello helps clients launch successful private investment funds and counsels investment advisors, family offices, high-net-worth individuals, institutional investors, registered investment companies and unregistered private investment funds on legal, regulatory, compliance, governance and general corporate matters.

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Advising on a range of fund structures, from simple to complex and multi-jurisdictional, Cody brings a high level of technical expertise to each matter. He works with private investment sponsors to structure, launch and advise private funds, including private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, hedge funds, private credit and real asset funds. He also directs investment advisers on structuring, fundraising and operating their private investment funds, while considering legal and regulatory requirements, investment strategy, investment locations, and investor types.

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Within the U.S. and abroad, Cody has earned a reputation for creating partnership-like relationships with clients and working towards their big picture goals. To ensure every client interaction creates value, he delivers sophisticated, practical advice and highly customized work with precision-level detail. When it comes to negotiating joint ventures and private fund hybrid structures, Cody is also known for coming to the table calm and composed, understanding that his client’s goal is the end goal.

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Led the negotiations of a sophisticated, multi-party and multi-jurisdictional aviation investment joint venture, on behalf of a publicly traded holding company with diverse industry holdings, despite conflicting competing interests with over $400 million in equity commitments.

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Structured and negotiated a highly-complex, multi-entity middle-market private equity fund with over $800 million in equity commitments. This structure included a bespoke separately managed account parallel entity, a unique series opt-out parallel fund and two "traditional" blocked/unblocked parallel funds that required addressing complex investor requirements among various investment vehicles, yet cause the entities to all function together as one unitary investment vehicle.

Led the launch of a multi-jurisdictional secondary private equity fund, with a Cayman Islands feeder and Luxembourg parallel fund with over $1 billion in equity commitments, and came in well under budget.

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Investment Services Regulatory Update October 2023

Managers of Plan Asset Funds: Important December 1, 2023 Deadline for DOL’s Proxy Voting Rule

SEC Adopts New Private Fund Adviser Rules

Fifth Circuit Vacates Private Fund Adviser Rules

Client Reminder – Revised QPAM Exemption Takes Effect June 17, 2024

Third Set of Form PF Amendments Take Effect on June 12, 2025

SEC Provides Helpful Marketing Rule FAQ Guidance

SEC Staff No-Action Letter Allows Issuers to Rely on High Minimum Investment Amounts to Verify Purchasers in Rule 506(c) Offerings

President Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to Facilitate 401(k) Access to Private Funds and Digital Assets

Significant Developments for Registered Closed End Funds of Private Funds

Vedder Price Represents L Squared Capital Partners In $840 Million Fund Formation

Vedder Price Advises L Squared Capital Partners in Closing of FineLine Technologies Continuation Fund

Vedder Price Represents Tortoise Funds in Strategic Initiative

Vedder Price Advises Aero Capital Solutions in Capital Raise for Investment Vehicle Set to Deploy $3.5 Billion in Aircraft Leasing

Vedder Advises L Squared Capital Partners on the Close of Fifth Fund at $2 Billion

Cody J. Vitello

Cody J. Vitello

Credentials

Education

Bar Admissions

Affiliations

Recognition

Insights & Events

SEC and CFTC Propose Significant Rollback of Form PF Reporting Requirements

Vedder Advises L Squared Capital Partners on the Close of Fifth Fund at $2 Billion

Significant Developments for Registered Closed End Funds of Private Funds

President Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to Facilitate 401(k) Access to Private Funds and Digital Assets

Vedder Price Practice Areas and Attorneys Recognized in The Legal 500 United States in 2025

Vedder Price Advises Aero Capital Solutions in Capital Raise for Investment Vehicle Set to Deploy $3.5 Billion in Aircraft Leasing

SEC Provides Helpful Marketing Rule FAQ Guidance

SEC Staff No-Action Letter Allows Issuers to Rely on High Minimum Investment Amounts to Verify Purchasers in Rule 506(c) Offerings

Cody J. Vitello

Credentials

Education

Bar Admissions

Affiliations

Recognition

Insights & Events

SEC and CFTC Propose Significant Rollback of Form PF Reporting Requirements

Vedder Advises L Squared Capital Partners on the Close of Fifth Fund at $2 Billion

Significant Developments for Registered Closed End Funds of Private Funds

President Trump Signs Executive Order Seeking to Facilitate 401(k) Access to Private Funds and Digital Assets

Vedder Price Practice Areas and Attorneys Recognized in The Legal 500 United States in 2025

Vedder Price Advises Aero Capital Solutions in Capital Raise for Investment Vehicle Set to Deploy $3.5 Billion in Aircraft Leasing

SEC Provides Helpful Marketing Rule FAQ Guidance

SEC Staff No-Action Letter Allows Issuers to Rely on High Minimum Investment Amounts to Verify Purchasers in Rule 506(c) Offerings

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