Richard F. Morris

Professional Biography

Richard F. Morris is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Investment Management and Securities Industry Practice. Mr. Morris's practice focuses on representing exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, and investment advisers. He has more than 20 years of experience as an asset management lawyer and has been at the forefront of ETF representation since 2000, when he helped launch the iShares family of ETFs.

Mr. Morris counsels clients on the full range of legal, regulatory, and compliance issues applicable to ETFs, investment companies, and registered investment advisers. He has experience navigating the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) ETF exemptive application process and has helped his clients obtain innovative exemptive orders that have since become industry standard. These include the first fixed-income ETF order in 2002, the first ETF 12(d)(1) order in 2003, the first affiliated index ETF order in 2006, and one of the first actively managed ETF orders in 2008.

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