Ms Allison M Fumai > Dechert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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NEW YORK, NY 10036-6797
NEW YORK
United States
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Ms Allison M Fumai
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Work Department
Financial Services and Investment Management
Position
Partner
Career
Allison M. Fumai focuses her practice on the representation of registered investment companies and their investment advisers. She regularly advises mutual funds, closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds and their investment advisers on issues relating to the development and launch of new funds, ongoing compliance and regulatory matters, mergers, liquidations and restructuring of funds.
Ms. Fumai also has extensive experience advising issuers and underwriters on initial public offerings and rights offerings for closed-end funds. She has particular expertise with exchange-traded funds and represents a significant number of exchange-traded fund sponsors and exchange-traded funds in connection with their exemptive relief, launch of unique products and other issues relating to exchange-traded funds.
Education
- Cornell University, A.B., Economics, 1999
- Cornell Law School, J.D., 2002
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
(Leading lawyers)Dechert LLP has a longstanding record in the mutual funds space, with funds, fund advisors and boards of directors, broker dealers, insurance companies and banks turning to the financial services team for comprehensive service. The team advises open- and closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, interval funds and on insurance products, covering a plethora of issues, including but not limited to regulatory and compliance matters, related litigation, regulatory investigation and the formation and management of these funds. Experienced partner Christopher Harvey leads the team out of the Boston office, and is supported by John O’Hanlon, who covers corporate, regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters for funds clients, and Stephanie Capistron, who among other capabilities advises mutual fund sponsors on launching ETFs in the same location. In New York Allison Fumai has extensive experience with exchange traded funds, but frequently works with mutual funds and closed-end funds as well, while in San Francisco Mark Perlow advises fund sponsors and investors on the related ESG regulation. Douglas Dick and Megan Johnson are based in Washington DC, with the latter advising mutual funds and EFTs on staying compliant with the Investment Company Act of 1940. The team underwent some changes in 2023 with Michael McGrath joining the firm from K&L Gates in March and Kaitlin McGrath being promoted to partner in January, both located in Boston and part of the financial Services and investment management team.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds United States > Investment fund formation and management
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)