Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP’s Asset Management Group is recognized as preeminent in the asset management area and provides a wide array of legal services to, among other clients, registered and regulated open-end and closed-end funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and other private funds, and their sponsors, advisers, directors, partners, managers, shareholders, clients and service providers.

Overview

• We regularly organize and counsel mutual funds, other traditional investment companies, exchange-traded funds, and business development companies subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
  
  
• We advise SEC-registered, foreign registered, and non-registered managers on all aspects of their businesses.
  
  
• We routinely advise clients that offer alternative investment vehicles, such as onshore and offshore hedge funds, private equity funds, collective trusts and structured products organized in fund formats.
  
  
• We are well-versed on all major regulatory regimes applicable to the asset management business within and outside of the United States.
  
  
• We provide ongoing legal counsel on significant and often novel regulatory matters, ranging from SEC examination and enforcement proceedings, to exemptive orders and no-action requests.
  
  
• We regularly advise our asset management clients on regulatory compliance and undertake mock compliance examinations and inspections of our clients’ operations.
  
  
• We advise money management firms of all kinds on mergers, acquisitions and restructuring transactions.