Dechert LLP

Financial Services and Investment Management

Partner

William Bielefeld advises registered funds (including open-end funds and closed-end funds) and business development companies, their investment advisers and their boards of directors/trustees on a wide range of matters relating to the development and launch of new funds, fund reorganizations, acquisitions, and mergers, regulatory and compliance matters relating to existing funds, fund governance issues and SEC examinations.

Mr. Bielefeld also represents broker-dealers and has experience with the initial organization and registration of new broker-dealers as well as ongoing registration, compliance, supervision, licensing, sales practice, advertising and suitability matters. Mr. Bielefeld also assists broker-dealers in connection with SEC and FINRA examinations and enforcement actions.

Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Bielefeld served as an attorney-advisor in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations.

Kenyon College, B.A. Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Research Editor of the Temple Law Review