NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- James Leahy, a former naval officer and honors graduate of Boston College Law School and Dartmouth College, has joined founding partners Gregory Florio and Michael Scally of Orical LLP, a law firm dedicated to serving the hedge fund, broker dealer and financial services industries.
Jim left Marathon Asset Management at the end of May of this year where he had served as Chief Financial Officer since 2008. Prior to joining Marathon, Jim helped found a Hedge Fund Operations Quality business at Moody's Investors Service where he was also a member of the CDO team. Jim's legal career began at Milbank Tweed in New York City where he was a member of the Capital Markets Group. He later joined Skadden Arps where he focused on M&A finance, bank loans and restructurings.
"We are very excited to call Jim a Partner of Orical. I spent four years with Jim at Marathon, where we were an integral part of a best-in-class operational structure. We worked very well together on many complicated matters and Jim's professional skills as well as his honesty and integrity are beyond reproach," said Mr. Florio.
Orical LLP is an award winning New York based investment management law firm founded by lawyers with extensive large law firm and "buy side" experience serving in senior management roles, including as General Counsels, Chief Financial Officers and Chief Compliance Officers, at some of the industry's largest private fund managers. Orical offers best-in-class, customized, practical, and technical solutions for the compliance, operational and legal issues facing investment advisers, broker-dealers, issuers and investors. Orical's services include: SEC Exam Preparation, Compliance Testing, Investor Due Diligence, Regulatory, Registration and Fund Formation Services.
For more information, please contact Gregory Florio at [email protected] or (212) 705-4285. Additional information on Orical LLP is available on the Web at www.orical.org.
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