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practice areas

practice accolades

Investment Management

Ranked, Band 1: Financial Services Regulation: Broker-Dealer Regulation in Chambers USA (2011)

Ranked, Band 1: Investment Funds: Registered Funds in Chambers USA (2011)

Ranked, Band 1: Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual Funds in The U.S. Legal 500 (2011)

Ranked, National Tier 1: Securities/Capital Markets Law, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2010)

Private Investment Funds

Ranked, National Tier 1: Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2010)

honors + affiliations

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Inter-American Bar Association

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2007–2011)

Listed, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds in The US Legal 500 (2009)

Listed, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual Funds in The US Legal 500 (2009)

AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Listed, Top Attorney in the Investment Management & Banking and Financial Institutions categories, South Florida Legal Guide (2005–2010); Legal Elite Section recognition, Florida Trend Magazine (2004–2008); Florida Super Lawyer (2006–2009)

Listed, The International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers (2006, 2011)

Managing Editor, Emory University Law Journal

bar admissions

  • Florida
  • New York
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Ethan W. Johnson
Partner

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Email: ejohnson@morganlewis.com
Miami
200 S. Biscayne Blvd., Suite 5300
Miami, FL 33131-2339
Phone: 305.415.3394
Fax: 305.415.3001

Ethan W. Johnson is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Investment Management and Securities Industry Practice. Mr. Johnson's practice focuses on investment management; banking and financial institution law; international corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance; and general corporate law. Mr. Johnson counsels clients on a wide variety of regulatory and transactional matters, including the creation of hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, UCITS and SEC-registered funds; the organization and operation of broker-dealers and investment advisers; corporate finance projects including public and private offerings of debt and equity issues; and joint venture and investment projects in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Johnson is a frequent author and lecturer on various topics, most recently including, regulation of broker-dealers and investment advisers; global distribution of investment funds; private equity real estate funds; and investment in the Emerging Markets and corporate governance. He is an editor of the Morgan Lewis Hedge Fund Deskbook: Legal and Practical Guide for a New Era, published by Thomson Reuters/West.

Mr. Johnson is admitted to practice in Florida and New York.

education

  • Emory University School of Law, 1985, J.D.
  • Harvard University, 1979, B.A.