Standish Compliance is a specialty compliance firm focused on the private fund industry, with more than a decade of experience partnering with private fund managers to build and administer institutional-quality compliance programs. We provide proactive, high-touch, compliance resources and expertise to our clients, enabling them to efficiently and effectively navigate their regulatory and compliance obligations.
Standish Compliance was founded in 2012 as Core CCO, and began its partnership with Standish Management in 2020. Core CCO became a subsidiary of Standish Management in 2024 and rebranded as Standish Compliance Services. The Standish Compliance team includes veteran SEC regulators, seasoned private fund compliance experts, certified AML/KYC specialists, and other professionals with legal, accounting, and IT backgrounds, who serve as the compliance team for our clients.
We focus specifically on private fund managers and understand better than most the nuances of private fund business models. We have significant experience with the compliance, regulatory, and business challenges private fund managers face. We believe that our depth of experience and focus on private funds enables us to provide highly customized compliance solutions for private fund managers.
Our mission is to help our clients succeed in a competitive market by providing customized compliance solutions that fit each client’s evolving needs. Our goal is to make compliance a core competency for our clients, resulting in:
We build and manage an institutional-quality compliance program at a fraction of the cost it would take to build in-house. By engaging Standish Compliance to proactively lead and administer your compliance effort, you can provide assurance to investors and confidence to your team, freeing them up to focus on their core competencies.
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Each firm is unique, and the compliance needs of private fund managers differ from other financial services firms. The nuances of private fund business models are not fully understood or appreciated by many compliance firms. The SEC’s private fund expertise and focus is constantly expanding. Regulators and sophisticated investors will expect firms’ compliance teams to have the requisite knowledge and expertise to fully understand the relevant compliance and regulatory landscape as well as the private fund industry. Through years of experience and focus on the private fund industry, Standish Compliance understands the unique challenges of private funds and can provide customized solutions to help private fund firms succeed in a competitive marketplace by meeting each client’s evolving needs.
Standish Compliance assigns each client a dedicated team who works proactively with the firm to design an effective compliance solution. We focus on asking the right questions and listening carefully to understand your business. We leverage our extensive experience with hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real state funds, energy funds, credit funds, and other alternative funds to provide expert advice and help you build the right compliance program. Standish Compliance serves as an extension of your in-house team to provide the regulatory and compliance expertise your firm needs and that LPs and regulators expect.
Standish Compliance provides specialized compliance services to a variety of private fund firms. Our clients are leading and emerging private equity funds, hedge funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, oil and gas funds, credit funds, other alternative fund managers, and specialty wealth managers. Standish Compliance serves a select group of institutional-quality clients with a strong compliance culture that are willing to commit resources to this critical function.
Standish Compliance is headquartered in Dallas, TX, with satellite offices in Houston and Austin, TX; Boston, MA; and Los Angeles, CA. Our clients include leading and emerging private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, energy and infrastructure funds, hedge funds, and specialty wealth managers.
200 Crescent Court, Suite 1300
Dallas, TX 75201