Bronte Capital
EXCERPT:
Ruh roh.
This wouldn’t be the first time the Bidens’ fund has intersected with an alleged fraudster. Two months ago it was discovered to be entangled with disgraced financier Allen Stanford in a $50 million fund co-branded Paradigm Stanford Fund and marketed by Stanford.

LA attorney Joseph Tagliaferro
Joe A. Tagliaferro III is a founding partner with Tagliaferro & LoPresti, LLP’s group in Los Angeles. During the past 10 years, Joe has concentrated his practice in the areas of corporate transactions and advisory, hedge funds, asset management, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulation and compliance, firm formation and launches, venture capital financings, as well as the defense of securities investigations. His expertise also extends to the entertainment industry and he has advised on the development of numerous entertainment and media projects.

Prior to the formation of Tagliaferro & LoPresti, LLP in 2001 with partner Marc LoPresti, Joe was an associate attorney and later a junior partner with Casale, Coffee, Nojima, LLP. In addition to his law career, Joe has been involved in the successful formation and growth of several entrepreneurial ventures. From 1999 to 2000, Joe served as Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs of Elephant Systems, Inc., a Los Angeles based venture capital incubator firm.

Prior to attending law school, Joe gained practical experience in the financial markets as a Foreign Currency Trader for Bierbaum-Martin Inc., a boutique firm on Wall Street. Additionally, Joe became a National Association of Securities Dealers Registered Representative and Supervisor for Schwab Institutional and International trading and operations. While at Schwab, he played an integral role in the strategic development, organization and management of Charles Schwab’s offshore subsidiary, Schwab Offshore with branch offices located in the Cayman Islands, London and Hong Kong. During law school, Joe worked as a law clerk for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in the Crimes Against Peace Officers Division and as an intern at National Association of Securities Dealers Regulation.

Joe is admitted to practice law in California and is an active member of the State Bar of California, The Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle, the Los Angeles County Bar, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the Los Angeles Venture Association and ProVisors. During the course of his career, Mr. Tagliaferro has been involved as a volunteer coach for the New York State Special Olympics ice hockey team and supports various non-profit and charitable organizations including AIDS Walk, The Segal Family Scholarship Fund at the Harvard-Westlake School, the Leukemia Society, Heal the Bay, and the Knights of York, a New York based non-profit organization.

Joe earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and his Juris Doctorate degree at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California.