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Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
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BOSTON, MA 02199
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Sarah Clinton
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Work Department
Asset Management
Position
Partner
Career
Sarah is a partner in the asset management group. Sarah’s practice focuses on representing investment advisers and registered investment companies in regulatory, transactional, and compliance matters. She advises asset management clients regarding the establishment, registration, operation, and reorganization of registered open-end and closed-end fund products, including the development and offering of new funds, the formation of trading subsidiaries, and advice regarding investment activities, sub-advisory and other service provider relationships, exemptive relief, compliance programs, and board matters.
Sarah has significant experience in structuring and counseling registered investment companies employing alternative investment strategies, including liquid alternative multi-strategy funds, registered funds of hedge funds, and registered funds of private equity funds. She assists private fund advisers entering the registered fund space and provides advice to registered investment advisers with respect to regulatory and compliance issues.
Education
- JD, cum laude, Boston University School of Law, 2005; Note Development Editor, Boston University Law Review
- BS (International Business Administration), summa cum laude, Missouri State University, 2002
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism