Michael Emanuel, who has served as a senior regulatory and compliance counsel at both major banks and investment management firms, has become a partner at the New York law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan.

Now a member of the law firm's private funds practice, Emanuel arrives from Eagle Investment Solutions, an asset management firm in Princeton in New Jersey, where he served as general counsel, chief compliance officer and co-chief operating officer. Previously he served as regulatory and compliance counsel for Harbinger Capital Partners, Loeb Partners Corp and State Street Bank and Trust.
 
Emanuel will also play an active part in Stroock’s family office group, which gives family offices legal advice about the management of their finances and investments. He advises public and private funds, hedge funds, family offices, and investment managers and commodity advisors on all regulatory, legal, compliance, infrastructure and risk issues. He worked at Ernst & Young and became a New York State certified public accountant, having already been an attorney in private practice and in-house at banks in New York.