Brian Guzman

Founder & Partner at Guzman Advisory Partners, LLP

Speaker

Brian Guzman is a founder & Partner at Guzman Advisory Partners, LLP, a boutique law firm launched with several partners on July 1, 2019 that focuses on the alternative investment industry with emphasis on the global legal and regulatory issues facing hedge funds, private equity funds, family offices and asset managers. Prior to that, Mr. Guzman was a Partner of Indus Capital Partners, LLC, a member of the firm’s Management Committee, and General Counsel managing the firm’s Legal and Compliance department. Mr. Guzman joined Indus Capital in August 2005. Prior to Indus Capital, Mr. Guzman spent five years with the law firm of Seward & Kissel LLP in New York where he was a Senior Associate in the Investment Management group. Mr. Guzman specialized in the formation and structuring of private investment funds (both domestic and offshore), private equity funds and registered investment companies, as well as advising registered and unregistered investment advisers on a variety of matters.

From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Guzman was a principal of an operating company that launched and operated several fast food restaurant units in Manhattan, performing start-up transactions and corporate duties.

Mr. Guzman graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in June 2000. In 1993, he graduated with a BS in Management and Industrial Relations from the Stern School of Business, New York University.