Eminent Tax Lawyer Daniel Shapiro joins Lincoln Vale

Schulte Roth & Zabel International LLP  has announced that senior and founding partner Daniel S. Shapiro, while continuing to serve as a partner in the firm’s London office, has also joined firm client Lincoln Vale, a multi-product asset management firm based in London and Boston, as a partner involved in all aspects of Lincoln Vale’s business.

“Dan will continue to provide his extraordinary talents to our clients as a partner in the
London office. Under the leadership of Dan and Chris Hilditch, we are recognized as one
of the leading law firms to hedge funds in London,” emphasized Paul Roth, head of
SRZ’s Investment Management Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
“We wish Dan great success at Lincoln Vale. We are certain that his expertise, and
boundless energy, will be as important to their success as it has been, and will continue to be, to ours.”

One of SRZ’s founding members, Mr. Shapiro’s practice focuses on tax and business
issues related to investment funds. He lectures and writes extensively on the legal, tax
and business aspects of investment funds, and recently testified on behalf of the Managed
Funds Association about offshore tax issues affecting hedge funds at hearings held by the
U.S. House Ways & Means and Senate Finance Committees.

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP (www.srz.com), with more than 450 attorneys in London,
New York and Washington, D.C., offers legal counsel in investment management, tax,
business transactions, structured products & derivatives, finance, litigation, business
reorganization, bank regulatory, real estate, intellectual property, sourcing & technology,
employment & employee benefits, individual client services, and environmental law. The
firm’s London office, which has established itself as a leading practice in the European
investment management sector since its launch in 2001, brings the firm’s four decades of
experience in alternative investment funds to bear on major fund launches, and when
advising U.S. funds on the formation of London offices and counseling London managers
on opening U.S. outposts. In 2007, the office received the Hedge Fund Journal Award
for “Best US Law Firm in London” and the most recent survey by Albourne Village, an
online community for the alternative investment industry, gave the office its Legal Eagle
award, declaring it to be London’s “Best Hedge Fund Law Firm.”