Media Advisory: Panel Discussion - "Be an Outlier: Launching a Hedge Fund Built for Success"

Leading Industry Experts Offer Advice to New Fund Managers in Today's Complex Environment of Changes and Challenges


NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

WHAT: Liquid Holdings Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:LIQD), Rothstein Kass, and Sadis & Goldberg, three leading hedge fund service providers, present the first in a series of hedge fund events for emerging managers and start-ups. The event – Be an Outlier: Launching a Hedge Fund Built for Success – will bring together a panel of industry experts and hedge fund managers to examine resources available to make more informed business decisions prior to and at fund launch, and twelve to twenty months down the line as the business matures. Core topics will include tax and advisory, compliance services, and critical infrastructure to satisfy transparency requirements, all against the backdrop of an industry filled with challenges, including changing fee models, the Volcker Rule, and investor mandates for operational credibility. 
 
This event is open to emerging and start-up hedge funds, and the media covering the hedge fund industry. Panelists will be available for interviews following the event.
   
WHO: Ron Geffner, Partner, Sadis & Goldberg
  Gary Berger, CPA & Principal, Rothstein Kass
  Robert O'Boyle, Executive Vice President, Liquid Holdings Group
   
WHEN: Tuesday, March 4th from 6:00 to 9:00 pm EST
   
WHERE: The Princeton Club of New York 
  15 West 43rd Street
  New York, NY 10036
   
RSVP: www.hedgefundevent.com
   
TO REQUEST INTERVIEWS:
Kim Hughes
The Blueshirt Group
+1 415 516-6187
kim@blueshirtgroup.com

About Liquid Holdings Group

Liquid Holdings Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:LIQD) is a cloud-based technology and managed services provider to the global hedge fund and active trading markets. Liquid's solutions are delivered efficiently and securely through the cloud in a SaaS model. The Liquid platform was purpose built to manage the entire trade lifecycle by seamlessly integrating multi-currency, multi-asset trade order management and execution with real-time risk, portfolio management, and shadow account reporting through a single solution. The company offers the Liquid platform or any of its components on a subscription basis to hedge fund managers, asset managers, family offices, and financial institutions worldwide.

Headquartered in New York City with offices in London and Aventura, Florida, Liquid Holdings Group was formed in 2012. For more information, please visit www.liquidholdings.com

About Sadis & Goldberg LLP

Sadis & Goldberg LLP is a leading New York based law firm focused on delivering sophisticated and creative legal solutions in a highly professional manner. The firm is recognized for its financial services practice that consists of representing several hundred investment advisers and related investment entities (including hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital funds). Similarly, the firm provides regulatory and compliance advice and representation in connection with SEC enforcement proceedings. Notwithstanding the emphasis on the financial services industry, the firm also provides a full range of tax, litigation, regulatory, real estate, intellectual property and corporate services to its clients.

About Rothstein Kass:

Founded in 1959, Rothstein Kass is a premier professional services firm serving privately-held and publicly-traded companies, as well as high-net-worth individuals and families. With more than 1,000 professionals, the firm provides accounting, advisory, auditing and tax services, as well as a full array of integrated services such as litigation and forensic consulting and concierge and tax accounting to clients across industry spectrums and in all stages of development. Rothstein Kass is widely recognized as a leader in the financial services space, consistently ranking among the top CPA firms serving the Hedge Fund, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Broker Dealer and Family Office segments.

At the core of Rothstein Kass' remarkable success is a commitment to hiring, developing and retaining employees with the same entrepreneurial spirit that permeates the sophisticated business and financial services communities the firm serves.