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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.

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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).