Graham McCall is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm's Dallas office and a member of the Investment Management team.
Graham's practice focuses on advising alternative asset managers regarding the formation, offering and ongoing operations of a wide variety of private fund vehicles and separate accounts. Graham’s clients range in size from emerging managers to multi-billion dollar institutional sponsors and include registered investment advisers, exempt reporting advisers, independent sponsors and CPO/CTAs whose strategies span multiple asset classes including hedge, private equity, credit, commodities, real estate, energy, digital asset, venture capital and fund-of-funds.
Graham also has experience representing family offices, pension plans, endowments and sovereign wealth funds in performing diligence and negotiating terms for investments in commingled, co-investment and secondary private fund vehicles. Graham’s transactional funds practice is complimented by his experience working for a federal financial regulator, which enables him to help clients navigate complex legal and compliance issues arising under the Investment Advisers Act, the Investment Company Act and the Commodity Exchange Act, as well as implementing rules and regulations of the SEC, CFTC and NFA.
In addition to working at other leading law firms prior to joining Sheppard Mullin, Graham’s experience spans government and in-house roles. Graham served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for the asset management division of a global financial services company, where he advised trading desks and portfolio managers on regulatory and documentation issues affecting derivatives. Graham began his legal career at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he worked on various Dodd-Frank rulemakings impacting the trading and market structure of derivatives.