John J. O'Brien
Co-leader of Morgan Lewis’s registered funds practice, John J. “Jack” O’Brien helps asset managers form and distribute new products, navigate regulatory issues, and design corporate structures and investment transactions. He works with all types of registered and private, open- and closed-end fund structures and works on adviser regulatory issues, particularly marketing, pay-to-play and state lobbying matters. He also has experience with exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading, having represented a number of AP broker-dealers over the last two decades.
Jack is also the managing partner of the firm’s Philadelphia office, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center (where he co-teaches courses on fiduciary duties and private funds), and a co-author of the Mutual Fund Regulation and Compliance Handbook.
