Vedder Price P.C. attorneys provide a full range of services to a diverse financial services clientele. Attorneys practicing in the firm’s Investment Services Group are experienced in all aspects of investment company and investment adviser securities regulations, broker-dealer regulatory and compliance matters, derivatives and financial product matters, and ERISA and tax matters. Clients include mutual fund complexes, hedge and other private funds, money managers, broker-dealers, independent directors, and many other types of institutions such as banks, savings and loans, pension plan sponsors, group trusts, insurance companies and investment limited partnerships.
Vedder Price’s clients include hundreds of separate open- and closed-end 1940 Act registered funds,including separate accounts of major life insurance companies, along with non-registered hedge and other private funds. The size of the funds and fund groups that Vedder Price represents ranges from assets of less than $100 million to the multi-billion dollar range. The firm also represents independent directors of mutual funds and investment advisers to mutual funds (and other accounts, such as individual and institutional accounts). We also represent investment advisers, investment counsel firms and independent money managers that manage institutional and individual accounts. Vedder Price serves as counsel to various group trusts and other pooled-investment vehicles. Attorneys in the Investment Services Group have advised many financial services providers, including investment advisers, brokerage firms, banks, bank affiliates and life insurance companies, on the design, organization and distribution of new investment products.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Investment Services Group
- Division of Investment Management Releases Investment Company Reporting Modernization FAQs - (Posted On Friday, August 18, 2017)
- OCIE Issues Summary of Observations from Latest Cybersecurity Sweep Exams - (Posted On Friday, August 18, 2017)
- Chairman Clayton Outlines His “Guiding Principles” for SEC - (Posted On Wednesday, July 19, 2017)
- House Passes the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017: Implications for Closed-End Fund Capital Raising and Registration Process - (Posted On Sunday, June 18, 2017)
- House Passes the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017: Implications for Exemptive Relief Process - (Posted On Saturday, June 17, 2017)
- House Passes the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017: Implications for Mutual Fund Excessive Fee Litigation - (Posted On Saturday, June 17, 2017)
- SEC Settles Charges Against Calvert for Improper Use of Fund Assets for Marketing, Distribution and Sub-Transfer Agency Service - (Posted On Saturday, June 17, 2017)
- FINRA Sanctions Cetera for Violations in Connection with Mutual Fund Sales - (Posted On Friday, June 16, 2017)
- SEC Settles Charges Against Barclays Capital for Overcharging Advisory Clients - (Posted On Friday, June 16, 2017)
- SEC Commissioner Piwowar: SEC Staff Working on Amendments to the “Loan Provision” Concerning Auditor Independence - (Posted On Friday, June 16, 2017)
Vedder Price's Investment Services group is recognized by the National Law Review as a Go-To Thought Leader for the group’s regular contributions on and analysis of SEC amendments and regulations, enforcement actions and proposed rulemaking. Topics addressed by Vedder’s Investment Services group related to the SEC include: enforcement proceeding settlements, the modernization of fund disclosure regime, amendments to proxy rules and the review process for exemptive applications. The following Vedder Price attorney authors were the most frequent contributors: John S. Marten, Nathaniel Segal and Jacob C. Tiedt.