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Proskauer Rose LLP Offices

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036-8299
NEW YORK
United States
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David Stephens

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David Stephens is a partner and a member of the Registered Funds Group. David has particular expertise in matters arising under the Investment Company Act. David’s experience covers virtually all types of investment companies, including registered and unregistered, open-end and closed-end, ETF’s, and master-feeder funds, as well as funding vehicles for insurance products.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
Proskauer Rose LLP is a trusted counselor to investment companies and their board directors, fund complexes and financial services firms, with expertise in registered funds and registered alterative fund products, including exchange traded funds, money market funds and business development companies. Furthermore, the ‘very knowledgeable and professional’ team advises on novel developments in the field, including recently on blockchain-enabled registered funds as well as evolving regulations in the field. Practice head Stuart Coleman sits in New York and offers a comprehensive advisory service to registered fund companies and board directors, including Apollo Independent Director Engagements and Central Park Group Funds. New York based David Stephens further strengthens the regulatory side of the practice, especially in SEC regulations and the Advisers Act. The grew in the last year with the addition of John Mahon in March 2023 from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in Washington DC.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending