NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, announced that Drew G. L. Chapman, a prominent alternative investment, asset management and securities industry attorney will join the firm as partner in the Corporate Department. Chapman will reside in the New York office.

“Drew Chapman is a great addition to our corporate team,” stated Steven Lofchie, Co-Chair of the Financial Services Department at Cadwalader. “He is a well-known and skilled transaction counselor who brings to the firm an expertise that supplements our talent and depth in regulatory affairs, fund formation, restructuring and general transactional work.”

Mr. Chapman joins Cadwalader from DLA Piper where he served as Chair of the Alternative Asset Management Group. His practice there centered on representing hedge funds and other alternative asset managers in transactions of all types, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, fund formation, restructurings and activist investing. Chapman provides ongoing representation to clients by advising them on issues that arise in their day-to-day investment and trading activities and on compliance matters. His clients include some of the world’s largest and best known hedge funds, private equity funds, broker dealers, asset management firms, and sovereign wealth funds.

“There is a significant opportunity at the upper end of the legal services industry to create a holistic practice representing hedge funds and other alternative asset managers on their most complex matters,” stated Mr. Chapman. “I am excited to be at Cadwalader, where I am among sophisticated, experienced and creative legal talent that can provide deal-focused, high-intensity commercial counsel for the global alternative asset management industry.”

Mr. Chapman is a regular commentator on financial television networks including Fox Business News. He is also a seasoned speaker and panelist on the topic of hedge funds and his commentary has been published in leading news outlets. In 2009, Legal 500 cited Chapman as “a highly technically sound attorney” “ who understands business and the markets.” In 2007, Investment Dealers Digest named him to its “40 under 40” list.

Mr. Chapman received his LL.B. from Bond University School of law Queensland, Australia in 1995, where he was awarded a Certificate of Achievement in Corporate and Commercial Law, and his LL.M. in Banking, Corporate and Finance Law from Fordham University School of Law in 1998.

About Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, established in 1792, is one of the world's leading international law firms, with offices in New York, London, Charlotte, Washington and Beijing. Cadwalader serves a diverse client base, including many of the world's top financial institutions, undertaking business in more than 50 countries in six continents. The firm offers legal expertise in antitrust, banking, business fraud, corporate finance, corporate governance, environmental, financial restructuring and reorganizations, healthcare, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions, private client, private equity, real estate, regulation, securitization, structured finance, and tax. More information about Cadwalader can be found at www.cadwalader.com.