Robert Goldbaum is Vice Chairman of the Paul Hastings Investment Management Group and is based in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Goldbaum regularly represents a wide variety of industry leaders in the full range of asset and wealth management transactions. His experience includes numerous acquisitions and sales of investment managers, minority investments in traditional and alternative asset management firms, spin-outs and lift-outs of investment management businesses and teams from larger organizations, and capital market and credit transactions involving asset management firms.

Prior to joining Paul Hastings, Mr. Goldbaum led the Investment Management Transactions practice of another international law firm. He previously co-founded HighView Investment Group with Ralph Schlosstein (co-founder and former President of BlackRock), an investment management firm targeting acquisitions of minority interests in alternative asset managers. Prior to that, Mr. Goldbaum was Senior Vice President for New Investments at Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), which he joined after more than 14 years in private legal practice.