Mark Richard Diamond

Celebrated attorney Mark Richard Diamond passed away on Friday, October 28th, 2022. He had been battling cancer for the past 18 months. He was 66 years old.

Mark was a partner with Rimon Law, where he worked for the past 10 years.Well respected by his colleagues and clients, Mark had an extraordinarily successful career as an attorney for over 40 years. He gained honors for his work as a lawyer in the financial industry. He was recently voted Lawyer of the Year in Private Investment Funds by the Lawyer Network in California, an award he received multiple times.

Mark was born in Chicago on October 6th, 1956, to attorney Abraham Diamond and Sylvia Barrish Diamond. He grew up in Wilmette, Illinois, attending New Trier West High School, where he was a National Merit Scholar. At New Trier, he was a member of the Debate Team and oboist in the Orchestra. He graduated at the top of his class. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He attended Law School at the University of Southern California.

Mark's law practice took him around the world, including positions in California, New York and Hong Kong. His law practice focused on private investment funds and broker-dealer regulation and compliance. Alongside his private practice, he worked with prestigious firms in the legal and finance spheres, including Coudert Brothers, Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, Wasserstein Perella and Robertson Stephens. In his work, Mark helped structure and launch a number of hedge funds, managed complex employment issues and provided legal and compliance services to investment advisers, broker-dealers and other financial services companies.

Mark loved reading, high quality audio, spending time with his family, everything Grateful Dead, eating out, the building blocks of democracy and a fancy cocktail. In his life, he and his family lived in Hong Kong and traveled all over the world, including visits to China, Thailand, Australia, India and many parts of Europe. A big fan of San Francisco, Mark was a Bay Area resident for the last 20 years. He was a foodie who loved finding unique upscale restaurants, yet he would always say yes to a Chicago hot dog or corned beef on rye. Mark was quite the joker and led a themed Passover Seder every year, complete with thematic parody song sheets and sing-a-longs. Whenever you needed an answer to a trivia question, Mark was there with the answer - he used to say, "I know a little about a lot."

Mark is survived by his wife of 35 years, Ellen Bass Diamond, daughters Alyssa Diamond and Kimberly Diamond and his brother David J. Diamond.