Lance A. Zinman

Lance A. Zinman is Head of the Chicago Financial Services Practice. Mr. Zinman has a broad range of experience within the corporate and financial regulatory fields. He focuses his practice on representing hedge funds, commodity pools, proprietary trading firms, private equity funds and investment advisors with respect to their corporate, transactional and regulatory matters. He also counsels clients in other sectors of the financial services industry, including domestic and foreign exchanges, brokerage firms, swap counterparties and other participants in over-the-counter transactions. Mr. Zinman not only represents clients in connection with futures, derivatives and securities matters, he also has substantial experience handling complex transactions such as equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Mr. Zinman also represents clients, including the Chicago Bulls, the Chicago White Sox and the Oakland Athletics, in the sports, music and entertainment industries in connection with a variety of matters such as player agreements, promotional and sponsorship agreements, television, radio and Internet rights agreements, stadium matters and management agreements.

Mr. Zinman was named one of the “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch” for 2008 by Law Bulletin Publishing Company, publishers of Chicago Lawyer magazine and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. In selecting Mr. Zinman for this honor, Law Bulletin Publishing noted that his “breadth and depth of experience have led his clients to describe him as one of the city's top business lawyers.”

Mr. Zinman has spoken at numerous seminars and events on topics relating to hedge funds and proprietary trading firms. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Futures Industry Association and the Managed Funds Association. He is also a member of the Hedge Funds Care Global Board of Directors and its Midwest Committee of Hearts, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Alternative Investments, an Institutional Investor Journal.

Mr. Zinman earned his B.A., with high honors, in business administration – prelaw, from the Honors College of Michigan State University (1995), and his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law (1998). He is admitted to practice in Illinois (1998).