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Noah cofounded Hutner Klarish LLP in 2005 with the objective of offering a boutique-firm approach to business law, a field usually dominated by big firms. Essential to the mission is his focus on maintaining one-on-one direct contact with clients, understanding them, their businesses, commercial needs/terms and their priorities. We strive to deliver personalized and consistently high-quality legal services at comparatively attractive prices.
Noah’s practice is focused broadly on business law with particular emphasis in the financial services industry, alternative investments such as hedge funds, private capital including private equity funds and venture capital, securities law and emerging company representation. Noah has launched well over 100 diverse funds and is recognized as an authority in the field. He also represents numerous investment advisors in connection with all of their legal, regulatory and compliance matters. Noah is well recognized as a “go-to” attorney representing portfolio managers, analysts, investment bankers and C-Suite executives in connection with their career transition moves. In the past few years, Noah has negotiated employment and/or severance transactions for employees joining and/or departing the following representative financial institutions: Citadel, Millennium, Balyasny, Point 72, Man Group, Verition, Schonfeld, North Rock, DE Shaw, WorldQuant, Exodus Point, Briarwood Chase, King Street, Freestone Grove, B. Riley, Engineer’s Gate, Perceheron Capital, Sycamore, Haystack Capital, Lux Capital and others.
Utilizing a combination of legal expertise and commercial business vision, Noah works with emerging companies in all types of industries, often serving as outside general counsel and assists in organizational, structural, contractual, financing and operational matters. He has helped many companies from the startup phase, through proof of concept, expansion of operations and to eventual exit events. In addition to handling their diverse legal needs, Noah helps position companies to build and realize value which includes utilization of his extensive network of contacts, service providers and capital sources. Clients such as hedge funds and family offices regularly turn to Noah to help evaluate and negotiate the terms of a wide range of complex investment opportunities they are considering. One theme often repeated by clients is that while Noah thinks, acts and protects them like an experienced lawyer, he communicates like a business person, focusing on deal terms and optimizing each transaction. Clients reiterate that Noah breaks things down to terms they can easily digest and positions them to make difficult decisions in an informed and objective manner.
Prior to merging his practice into Hutner Klarish LLP, Noah was the founder and principal of Noah Klarish & Associates, P.C. Prior to that, he practiced with the NYC-based law firms of Spengler Carlson and Moses & Singer, where he was involved in large-scale capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, proxy contests, and public and private offerings of securities.
Admitted to Practice
- New York
Awards
- Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating. Noah has the highest possible rating having received a 5.0 (out of 5.0) for both legal ability and ethics.
- Chambers and Partners® New York Spotlight 2025 and 2026 Editions.
- Avvo®. Noah has the highest possible rating having received a 10.0.
- Avvo®. Noah has received 100% client review ratings of 5 stars.
- Recipient of Global Law Experts Award for Boutique Hedge Fund Formation Law Firm of the Year in New York 11 years running (2016-2026).
- Consistently Featured In The Annual List of Large Hedge Fund Law Practices by Hedge Fund Alert, a leading industry publication.
Education
- University of Pennsylvania, Carey Law School, Juris Doctor
- Boston University, Questrom School of Business, B.S. in Business Administration and Finance, summa cum laude
Professional Memberships
- American Bar Association
