Morgan Lewis

Investment Management

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Fast Facts

Serve as fund and/or adviser counsel to more than 20 sponsors and advisers of investment companies with assets under management of more than $4 billion.

Serve as either fund and/or adviser counsel to 48 out of the top 50 open end ETFs.

Represent 9 of the 10 largest money managers listed by Institutional Investor.

Represent more than 200 broker-dealers, including most of the largest 100 U.S. securities firms listed by Institutional Investor.

Represent more than 750 mutual funds, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.

Team of more than 200 lawyers, more than 30 of whom joined us after distinguished careers at the SEC.

Related Events

02/17/12 2012 Derivatives Roundtable: Exploring the Use of Derivatives by Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds, and ETFs
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03/08/12-03/09/12 IAA Investment Adviser Compliance Conference 2012 Arlington, VA
Beth D. Kiesewetter, panelist, "Social Media Issues"
03/15/12-03/16/12 14th Annual IA Compliance Best Practices Summit 2012 Washington, DC
Steve Stone, speaker, "What A CCO Can Do to Reduce The Risk Of Insider Trading"; Donald Myers, speaker, "What New Department of Labor Rules Mean for ERISA Fiduciaries
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Related Publications

02/03/12 2011 Asset Management Year in Review: Select SEC Enforcement Cases and Developments Regarding Investments Advisers and Investment Companies
02/02/12 DOL Releases Final 408(b)(2) Disclosure Regulation
Final regulation on required disclosures by plan service providers extends deadline for disclosures to July 1, 2012.
01/31/12 2011 Year in Review: Asset Management Roundtable
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Related News

02/06/12 Morgan Lewis Expands Existing Derivatives and Commodity Futures Platform with Addition of Leading Chicago-based Partner
Morgan Lewis today announces that Michael M. Philipp has joined the firm as a partner in its Financial Services, Investment Management and Securities Industry practice, resident in Chicago.
09/21/11 Former GC of Jefferies Returns to Morgan Lewis’ Securities Practice
Morgan Lewis today announced that Lloyd H. Feller has returned to the firm as senior counsel in its Investment Management and Securities Industry Practice, resident in New York.
09/01/11 Record Penalty Makes Case For Forex Compliance Reviews, Compliance Reporter
Georgia Bullitt and Michael Piracci are quoted.
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We provide a full range of legal services to clients in the financial services industry in the United States and abroad. Our investment management clients include nine of the ten largest money managers listed by Institutional Investor, over 500 mutual funds, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds, the largest business development company in the U.S., banks and trust companies, insurance companies, public and private pension funds, fiduciaries and consultants, transfer agents, fund administrators, and other businesses in the investment management industry.

Our interdisciplinary approach to counseling clients combines the knowledge of lawyers familiar with the federal and state securities laws, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code, commodities regulation, federal and state banking and insurance laws, and foreign securities laws. Many of our attorneys have worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), investment management firms, banks, broker-dealers, and insurance companies. Morgan Lewis is a leader in investment management law, and was recently ranked first among U.S. law firms as investment management counsel (based on number of new issues).