Chris Hayes Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Capitol Asset Strategies (CAS) is a policy and regulatory consulting firm that provides bespoke government relations, regulatory guidance, and strategic engagement services to clients at the intersection of financial services and technology. We have particular experience in alternative investments and digital assets/blockchain technology.Our firm’s principals bring a combined 25+ years of experience building strategies and achieving results with key policymakers and regulatory agencies on global financial services, tax, and digital assets issues, with experience in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, the Middle East and Asia. We assist our clients by providing: Global Strategic Government Relations, Regulatory Engagement Services, and Bespoke Solutions to help them achieve their business goals.

RedLine Strategies LLC provides strategic business advice, legal and regulatory guidance, and capital introductions to financial services firms. Our President, Chris Hayes, has over 12+ years of experience and relationships in the financial services industry, with particular focus on institutional investors (LPs), SBICs, and venture firms. Chris also has a wealth of knowledge to help clients understand the regulatory environment impacting their businesses, and has advised private funds, fintech firms, and digital asset startups.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Serve as a business, policy, and regulatory adviser to Renna Labs. Renna is a software platform powering onchain asset management infrastructure. They offer an integrated custody and execution platform for digital assets.

New York, Ny, Us

Serve on the advisory board of an investment firm anchoring diverse and emerging buyout and special situation fund managers. Advise on fund manager selection, provide introductions to institutional LPs, and provide regulatory guidance on their pre-launch Reinvestor SBIC fund.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Part time advisor to an investment analytics/legal tech company focused on the private fund industry. Advised regarding their products targeted at the LP community around private fund terms, made sales introductions and provided guidance to the firm leadership. Aumni was acquired by JP Morgan in 2023.

Paris, Ile-De-France, Fr

Led U.S. Government Relations at the federal and state level for a web3 sports and entertainment company. Focus on digital asset regulation under the financial services laws, legal and regulatory treatment of NFTs, and gaming/daily fantasy sports regulatory issues.

Led the Global Government Relations of a Layer-1 Blockchain ecosystem, including engagement with policymakers in the U.S., Europe and Brazil. Issues include crypto asset, DeFi, and stablecoin regulation. I was also involved in policy work in the ESG/Climate space.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Built and led a global advocacy and legal best practices program on behalf of over 650 leading institutional investors (LPs) in the private fund industry (private equity, VC, private credit), with primary focus on the U.S., UK and European Union. These investors included public and private pension systems, university endowments, charitable foundations, insurers, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and development finance institutions. Led all the best practices legal work for the organization, including standing up a Legal Advisory Council of in-house LP lawyers, a Legal Network of Members, and a new ILPA Legal Conference (LCON) for the organization. Also managed the project that created the ILPA Model LPAs and Model Subscription Agreement.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

General Counsel of a trade association focused on representing BDCs, SBICs, lower middle market private equity and limited partners invested in these funds. Primary duties include advocacy, advising on federal and state securities laws and SBIC regulations, as well as general in-house counsel duties. Extensive experience with the Investment Company Act ('40 Act), Investment Advisers Act, '33 and '34 Acts, as well as blue sky regulation. Familiarity with all facets of the SBIC program, including the licensing and limited partnership agreement of SBICs, ongoing compliance and examination.My role also included serving as the General Counsel of the SBIC Funding Corporation, an affiliated entity which is involved in the securitization, underwriting, and sales of SBIC debentures, which funds the SBIC program.

Washington, Dc, Us

Regulatory advocacy role representing independent broker dealers (Ameriprise, Raymond James, LPL etc.) as well as their independent financial advisers. Provided legal advice and regulatory engagement on retail broker dealer and investment adviser issues as well as on the retail alts products (REITs, BDCs, Interval Funds) they sold to their customers.

Class action litigation & motions practice in federal and state court on behalf of investors, employees and consumers. Legal research and drafting in complex cases involving large corporations.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Investigation and market surveillance of insider trading violations across the U.S. securities markets. Building cases for referral to the SEC & FINRA enforcement; significant trading analysis.

Washington, Dc, Us

Assisting with investigations into the 2007 Auction Rated Securities (ARS) market collapse, FCPA investigations & Insider Trading investigations.

Served on the Staff of the Senate Banking Committee as a legal fellow. Spent the summer assisting the Committee staff with hearings surrounding the fallout from the 2008 GFC, as well as with legal and policy research in connection with the staff's drafting of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

Assisted with investigations into violations of California blue sky law.

Us

Prepared bench memorandums and research for Chapter 7, 11 and 13 cases. Involved with Fremont General bankruptcy filing (subprime lender).

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Working in a middle office position on the trading floor assisting traders with securities lending transactions. Responsible for ensuring risk was collateralized for the loans.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Processed daily mutual fund transactions, created and redeemed shares and processed the SPDR series of ETF funds owned by State Street.

Juris Doctor, Law

Finance

Visiting Jd Student, Law

Ba, Politics And Legal Studies

Study Abroad, International Relations/European Union Studies

High School Diploma, General