practice areas
practice accolades
Ranked, Band 1: Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual Funds in The U.S. Legal 500 (2012)
Ranked, National Tier 1: Securities/Capital Markets Law, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2012)
Ranked, Band 2: Financial Services Regulation: Broker-Dealer Regulation in Chambers USA (2012)
Ranked, Band 2: Investment Funds: Registered Funds in Chambers USA (2012)
Ranked "#1 Most Active Law Firm" globally, based on the number of funds worked on for limited partners, by Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst (2013)
Ranked, National Tier 1: Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2012)
honors + affiliations
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008–2013)
Listed, Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual Funds in The US Legal 500 (2009–2010)
bar admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- Philadelphia
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1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.5037
Fax: 215.963.5001
Timothy W. Levin is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Investment Management and Securities Industry Practice. Mr. Levin’s practice focuses on investment company matters, private fund organization and management, as well as investment adviser regulation. Mr. Levin represents many types of registered investment companies, such as mutual funds, closed-end funds and registered funds of hedge funds, and managers of registered investment companies in connection with organization, registration and ongoing regulatory compliance. He also represents unregistered pooled investment vehicles, including managers and sponsors of private funds, and companies seeking exemption from investment company status.
Mr. Levin is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and is recognized by Chambers as a young partner who is "rising to the top" when it comes to providing client service.
Mr. Levin is an editor of the Morgan Lewis Hedge Fund Deskbook: Legal and Practical Guide for a New Era, and the Mutual Fund Regulation and Compliance Handbook, 2008–2009 Edition, both published by Thomson Reuters/West.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Levin served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, from September 1995 to July 1996.
Mr. Levin is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
education
- Villanova University School of Law, 1995, J.D.
- University of Pennsylvania, 1992, B.A.
