Ben Nager joins as a Partner with Counsel Shelley Azizi and paralegal John 'Jack' McCann.
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Norm Law LLP, an AI-native full-service law firm running on the Norm Ai platform, today announced the expansion of its Private Funds practice with the addition of Ben Nager, Shelley Azizi, and John 'Jack' McCann.
Nager joins Norm Law from Sidley Austin as a Partner to lead the firm's Blue Sky filings and state securities regulatory capabilities within its Private Funds practice. He is joined by Counsel Shelley Azizi and paralegal Jack McCann, both former Sidley colleagues, bringing together an established team with deep experience managing state and federal securities filings for institutional investment funds.
"Ben, Shelley, and Jack bring an established practice grounded in detailed knowledge of securities requirements across all 50 states," said Mike Schmidtberger, Chair of Norm Law and former Chair of the Executive Committee of Sidley Austin, "I worked with Ben and Shelley for many years and am glad to be reunited with them."
Norm Ai has developed technology that incorporates jurisdiction-specific filing requirements, deadlines, fees, and other rules into a central workflow. The platform organizes fund and investor information, identifies upcoming obligations, flags missing or inconsistent data, and gives clients direct visibility into required actions and filing status. Norm Law attorneys remain responsible for reviewing the applicable rules, resolving legal questions, and completing filings with federal and state regulators.
"Norm Ai and Norm Law uniquely integrate world-class legal talent with the frontier of legal AI," said John Nay, founder and CEO of Norm Ai. "Norm Ai embeds deep knowledge of the relevant laws and regulations into software that drives faster, more consistent outcomes for clients. This is exactly why we built an AI company and a full service law firm together."
"Blue Sky work involves hundreds of jurisdiction-specific requirements, recurring deadlines, and large volumes of fund and investor data," said Scott Worland, Chief Technology Officer at Norm Ai. "Our engineers built a platform that turns that complexity into a structured workflow. Clients submit information in one place, relevant obligations are surfaced automatically, and the legal team can focus on the exceptions and decisions that require judgment."
Nager brings almost 30 years of experience advising investment banking and fund management clients on securities regulatory matters. He has coordinated Form D and state notice filings for hedge funds, commodity pools, and private equity funds and led large-scale, 50-state remediation projects involving registration and exemption issues. He has also helped obtain FINRA approval for hundreds of initial and secondary offerings by REITs, SPACs, banks, corporate issuers, commodity ETFs, and commodity pools.
Azizi joins Norm Law as Counsel, bringing 20 years of experience advising pooled investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, REITs, and other private entities, on federal and state securities regulatory matters, with an emphasis on Regulation D offerings. McCann joins as a Paralegal, supporting the team's Blue Sky and related securities filing work.
Clients representing more than $35 trillion in assets under management leverage Norm Ai. Norm Law uses the same technology to serve institutional clients as outside counsel. These additions expand Norm Law's ability to support clients across private funds, securities regulation, technology transactions, intellectual property, M&A, and other high-stakes matters.
About Norm Ai
Norm Ai builds agentic law, embedding law into AI agents. Its systems help govern how AI operates in high-stakes, regulated environments across a client base representing more than $35 trillion in combined assets under management. Norm Ai also powers Norm Law, the first AI-native law firm built for institutional clients. Norm Ai has raised more than $260 million from Khosla Ventures, Craft Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, Blackstone, Vanguard, Citi, New York Life, TIAA, Henry R. Kravis, and Marc Benioff. For more information, visit norm.ai.
About Norm Law
Norm Law is the first AI-native full-service law firm. Norm Law's model is designed to help its attorneys analyze those materials, identify issues, and move transactions forward efficiently while remaining focused on clients' commercial objectives. It combines top-tier legal talent with AI agents powered by Norm Ai to deliver legal work with greater speed, consistency, and scale. For more information, visit normlaw.com.
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