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Vedder Price Offices

Vedder Price
1401 New York Avenue NW Suite 500
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Bruce A. Rosenblum

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+1 (202) 312 3379 brosenblum@vedderprice.com View profile

Work Department

Investment Services

Position

Shareholder

Career

Mr. Rosenblum focuses his practice on the representation of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) independent directors, investment companies and investment advisors. He provides legal counsel on an extensive variety of legal, business and operational issues, including matters related to:

  • Independent trustee fund governance
  • Fund structures, including ETFs, closed-end funds, “fund-of-funds” and “manager-of-managers”
  • Specialty funds using unique strategies
  • Fund fees and fund service providers
  • Mergers of fund complexes, including fund mergers
  • Fund board mergers
  • Fair valuation and fund accounting matters
  • Compliance process and procedures
  • Regulatory inquiry assessment and responses

Mr. Rosenblum’s experience includes service as a senior in-house lawyer at Deutsche Asset Management/Scudder (now DWS) Investments and spending eight years at the SEC, including service as counsel to two SEC Commissioners, one of whom was former SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro, and as a senior lawyer in the Division of Enforcement. During his tenure in-house, he managed a legal team providing services to eight fund boards overseeing mutual funds, closed-end funds and specialty funds. He was also the chief in-house lawyer supervising the development, organization and launch of new funds, and he counseled fund directors and fund officers on compliance, valuation, fund accounting and third-party service provider matters. In addition, he has represented insurance companies and mutual fund boards on various matters related to the development, organization and distribution of variable annuity and variable life insurance products.

Memberships

  • Board Member, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Educational Foundation
  • Advisory Board, Mutual Fund Directors Forum
  • Administrative Shareholder of Vedder Price’s Washington, DC Office, 2018-2020

Education

  • University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., 1986
  • University of South Carolina Moore School of Business, M.B.A., 1986
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1982, cum laude

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds

Vedder Price‘s broad advisory service covers compliance and regulatory matters, fund transactions as well as day-to-day operational advice for investment companies and diverse fund complexes, among which are registered investment companies, mutual funds, closed-end funds and exchange traded funds, with a particular strength of the department being their independent directors practice, which comprises the bulk of their client roster. A trio of partners lead the practice: Washington DC based Marguerite Bateman advises clients on various regulatory matters pertaining to the Investment Company Act of 1940, Investment Advisors Act of 1940 and on securities law, as well as John Marten and Joseph Mannon ,based in Chicago, the former advising on innovative ETFs, fund mergers and SEC examinations and the latter on ETFs and diverse registered fund product offerings. Previous practice heads Bruce A. Rosenblum and Cathy Gonzales O’Kelly further strengthen the teams in Washington DC and Chicago respectively. Among the recent team changes were the arrival of Todd Lurie to the New York office in June 2023 from MetLife as well as the departures of Thomas Conner and Robert Crea in March 2023.

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