On February 4, 2014 – this coming Tuesday – the New York office of Ropes & Gray will host GAIM Regulation 2014.  The event will feature an all-star speaking faculty including general counsels and chief compliance officers from leading hedge fund managers, top partners from Ropes and other law firms and officials from the SEC, CFTC, FINRA and other U.S. and global regulators.  The intent of the event is to share best practices in a private setting, and to hear directly from relevant regulators.  For a fuller description of the event, click here.  The Hedge Fund Law Report recently interviewed three Ropes partners on some of the more noteworthy topics expected to be discussed at GAIM Regulation 2014.  Generally, we discussed SEC and regulatory issues with Laurel FitzPatrick, co-leader of Ropes’ hedge funds practice and co-managing partner of its New York office; CFTC and derivatives issues with Deborah A. Monson, a partner in Ropes’ Chicago office; and enforcement issues with Zachary S. Brez, co-chair of Ropes’ securities and futures enforcement practice.  Specifically, our long form interview with these partners included detailed discussions of the future of hedge fund advertising following the JOBS Act; the impact of the Volcker rule on hedge fund hiring and trading; fund manager responses to the SEC’s focus on broker registration of in-house marketing personnel; best practices for preparing for and navigating SEC examinations; structuring multi-year incentive fees; the impact of swap execution facilities on hedge fund manager obligations and cleared derivatives execution agreements; recent National Futures Association developments relevant to hedge fund managers; design and enforcement of robust information barriers; measures that managers can take to preserve the firm before and after initiation of an enforcement action; government enforcement priorities for hedge fund managers; and specific financial products likely to face government scrutiny in the next two years.