Ropes & Gray LLP

Asset Management

Partner, Co-Head

Tom is a partner in the asset management group and co-head of the firm's registered funds practice group. His practice focuses on the investment management industry. He represents investment advisers to a range of investment products, including mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, commodity pools and separate accounts. Tom also provides ongoing advice to mutual funds and their independent trustees/directors. He has extensive experience with the following types of matters, among others: the organization of mutual funds, hedge funds and investment advisers; director duties with regard to advisory agreements and Rule 12b-1 plans; investment adviser registration issues; general conflicts and fiduciary duty issues; closed-end fund activist issues; fund reorganizations; fund-of-fund and master/feeder issues; affiliated transactions; and regulatory and compliance issues of all kinds affecting investment management industry clients.

JD, cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1994; University of Pennsylvania Law Review BA, magna cum laude, Colgate University, 1991; Phi Beta Kappa