CO-CHAIR, BLANK ROME INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT GROUP

Stacy Louizos represents registered investment companies and their independent directors and investment advisers and serves as Co-Chair of Blank Rome’s Investment Management group. She is also co-leader of the firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) team.

For more than 20 years, she has advised clients on a broad range of matters relating to the operation of investment companies of all kinds, including the organization and offering of open-end and closed-end investment companies; mergers of individual mutual funds and of fund complexes; and board governance, compliance, and other regulatory matters under the federal securities laws. 

Stacy has extensive fund formation experience and has worked with a variety of registered fund products. She is also known and has been recognized nationally for counseling fund boards. She has served as fund counsel and/or counsel to the independent directors of fund complexes of all sizes, including a number of large and well-known fund groups.

A leading attorney in her field, Stacy has been consistently recommended in the practice area of Investment Fund Formation and Management in The Legal 500 United States and has been listed as a Recognized Practioner in Chambers USA. She was also named a “Notable Woman in Law” by Crain’s New York Business. She is a regular speaker and writer and is frequently quoted on topics such as board governance, fund best practices, and cybersecurity.