Registered Funds
Goodwin’s Registered Funds practice specializes in helping asset managers and registered investment companies launch and develop their businesses of offering products to retail investors. We have extensive experience helping clients of all sizes meet their retail investment business objectives with innovative and sophisticated solutions.
Our lawyers have decades of experience serving the registered fund industry, from counseling registered investment companies, asset managers, and their funds on a wide range of issues under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act), the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and other securities laws to advising the independent board members of registered funds. We have particular expertise in the structuring of closed-end funds and offering private market and other alternative asset strategies to retail investors. We also specialize in advising clients on all matters related to exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
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AREAS OF FOCUS
TYPES OF FUNDS
Goodwin’s Registered Funds lawyers have extensive experience helping clients structure — and offer — a wide variety of retail fund structures, including interval and tender offer funds; mutual funds, ETFs, and registered funds of funds; business development companies; master-feeder funds; real estate investment trusts (REITs), including privately offered and non-traded REITs and REITs registered under the 1940 Act; and collective investment trusts for retirement plans.
