Practice Focus

We specialize in helping asset managers with all legal aspects of their business, including their SMA business and managing, launching and converting/merging ETFs, mutual funds, interval funds, BDCs, CITs and other investment products across a wide variety of asset classes.

Investment Advisers & Sub-Advisers

Investment Advisers & Sub-Advisers

Organization & Structuring
Investment Advisory/Sub-Advisory Agreements
SEC Registration
Compliance Programs
Regulatory Examinations
Fund Boards

Fund Boards

Fund Counsel
Independent Trustee Counsel
Diverse Board Candidate Recruiting
Investment Funds

Investment Funds

(organizing/structuring, launching, converting/merging)

ETFs
Mutual Funds
Interval Funds/Tender Offer Funds
BDCs
SMAs
CITs
Private Funds
UCITS & Foreign Funds (through coordination with trusted law firms in foreign jurisdictions)
Innovative Investment Strategies

Innovative Investment Strategies

ESG, Micro Sector, Single
Stock/Bond, Managed Futures,
Leveraged/ Inverse Strategies, and Digital Assets
Index Providers

Index Providers

Operations, governance, oversight, license agreement negotiations
External General Counsel Services for Select Managers

External General Counsel Services for Select Managers