Vedder Price

Investment Services

Shareholder

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.

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

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