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Ropes & Gray LLP

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Ropes & Gray LLP has extensive experience acting as regular counsel to its diverse and growing client base of leading asset and investment management firms and their independent directors and trustees. Their clients rely on the firms strong registered funds practice that advises on all manner of fund launches, including but not limited to registered open-end and closed-end funds, interval and tender offer funds, exchange traded funds and registered funds investing in alternative asset classes. Practice heads Bryan Chegwidden and Michael Doherty are based in New York, with James Thomas in Boston rounding up the registered funds leadership team. Chegwidden has extensive experience advising asset managers and large mutual fund families on alternative investment products, while Doherty additionally covers transactional matters and product development for asset managers. Thomas frequently assists exchange traded funds, registered investment companies and other private investment vehicles, as does Thomas Hiller. John Loder retired in December of 2023.

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Key clients

  • Aristotle Capital Management LLC
  • Affiliated Managers Group
  • Blackstone Alternative Asset Management; and its registered investment companies
  • BondBloxx
  • Brighthouse Funds
  • Calamos Funds and their Independent Trustees
  • DoubleLine Funds and DoubleLine Capital
  • Forum Capital Advisors (Independent Trustees)
  • Fundrise Advisors, LLC
  • Impax Funds
  • Ironwood (Independent Directors)
  • Masterworks.io
  • MFS Funds and their Independent Trustees
  • Natixis and Loomis Sayles Fund Groups and Natixis Global Investment Managers, Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P., and Harris Associates, L.P.
  • Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC
  • Putnam Funds and their Independent Trustees
  • State Street Corporation and State Street Global Advisers
  • Thrivent ETF Trust and Thrivent Asset Management, LLC
  • TPG Capital
  • Voya Funds

Work highlights

  • Representing Blackstone Alternative Asset Management and BAAM’s registered investment companies.
  • Representing the DoubleLine Funds and advise the funds’ sponsor DoubleLine Capital, a leading fixed-income manager.
  • Advising as fund counsel to PIMCO in relation to 22 closed-end funds, as well as four closed-end funds operating as interval funds and five open-end no-fee funds managed by PIMCO.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Bryan Chegwidden, Michael Doherty, James Thomas

Other key lawyers

Thomas Hiller