Morgan Lewis

Investment Management and Securities Industry

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Serve as fund and/or adviser counsel to money managers with assets under management that total more than $25 trillion.

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

Represent 7 of the 10 largest money managers listed by Institutional Investor.

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

Represent over 500 mutual funds, venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds.

Team of more than 100 lawyers, more than 30 of whom joined us after distinguished careers at the SEC.

Related Events

05/12/08 NRS 23rd Annual Spring Compliance Conference South Beach, FL
Ivan Harris, speaker; Ryan Helmrich, speaker
06/03/08 Teaching At Wharton, with the FINRA Institute Philadelphia
Georgia Bullitt, speaker
06/17/08 Fixed Income Best Execution: Tools and Best Practices for Compliance Workshop New York
Dianne Sulzbach, presenter
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Related Publications

05/09/08 Broker-Dealer Regulatory Update - As of May 8, 2008
(pdf)
05/06/08 SEC Fires Another Warning Shot Over Insider Trading Policies and Procedures
05/02/08 Broker-Dealer Regulatory Update - As of May 1, 2008
(pdf)
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Related News

03/31/08 Morgan Lewis Boosts Cross-Border Capabilities with New Funds Partner in Paris
Morgan Lewis today announced the addition of Ann G. Baker—formerly the Paris head of the private equity fund formation practice at Debevoise & Plimpton—as a partner in its Business & Finance Practice, resident in the firm’s Paris office.
02/20/08 Chambers USA 2008 Recognizes 123 Morgan Lewis Lawyers as “Leaders in Their Field”
Morgan Lewis is pleased to announce that the 2008 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business will feature 123 Morgan Lewis lawyers when it is published later this year.
02/11/08 Lawyers Warn of Transatlantic Rule Change Trouble Ahead, Financial News
Rob Falkner is quoted on the rule change for US investors.
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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 seven 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).