Reed Smith has expanded its investment management and financial services practice in New York with the hiring of Avi Navo as counsel. Navo has broad expertise in the funds space, particularly in transactions involving domestic and international hedge funds and funds-of-funds. Navo is the latest in a string of former in-house practitioners to join Reed Smith. See “Reed Smith Financial Industry Group Adds Matthew J. Bromberg in New York” (Aug. 27, 2015); and “Reed Smith Adds Former General Counsel of UBS Global Asset Management’s Alternative and Quantitative Investments Group” (Apr. 18, 2014).