A mix of public companies, private companies, trusts and not-for-profit organizations turn to the team at Sullivan & Worcester LLP for its ability to offer advice on a host of matters, including ongoing legal counsel to investment funds and general ongoing board counselling. Nicole Crum focuses on the representation of boards and board committees, regularly advising them on all aspects of governance and compliance, while Boston’s Howard E Berkenblit handles ongoing corporate governance and disclosure matters, stock exchange listing standards and Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Dodd-Frank Act compliance. Both David M Leahy and David Mahaffey are frequently engaged by independent directors, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds. Practitioners are based in Washington DC unless otherwise stated.
Key clients
- Brookfield Funds
- DarioHealth Corp
- Diversified Healthcare Trust
- FMR Corp.
- Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd.
- Independent Trustees of the John Hancock Funds
- Independent Trustees of the John Hancock GA Mortgage Trust and Senior Loan Trust
- John Hancock Asset-Based Lending Fund
- Independent Trustees of the Matthews Asia Funds
- Independent Trustees of the Pacific Select Fund and Pacific Funds Series Trust
- Independent Trustees of the Virtus Funds
- Independent Trustees of the Virtus Closed-End Funds
- Industrial Logistics Properties Trust
- ING Group
- Iron Mountain Incorporated
- Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc.
- Nano Dimension Ltd.
- Office Properties Income Trust
- Oramed Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Pluri Inc.
- RADCOM Ltd.
- The RMR Group Inc.
- Alarum Technologies Ltd.
- SciSparc Ltd.
- Service Properties Trust
- Independent Trustees of the State Street Funds
- Ultimus Managers Trust
- VALIC Retirement Funds and their Independent Directors/Trustees
- Independent Directors of Sierra Income Corporation
- BiomX
- Embecta
- Polypid
- Brenmiller
- Wearable Devices
- Jeff’s Brands
- Dario
Work highlights
- Advising Independent Trustees of the John Hancock Funds on, among other matters, board governance and meeting their duties and responsibilities under the federal securities law and state law.
- Serving as legal counsel to the Independent Trustees of the Virtus Mutual Funds and Virtus Variable Insurance Trust on a variety of matters such as Board governance, fund reorganizations, sub-adviser changes and disclosure matters.
- Advising Service Properties Trust on a broad range of matters, including securities offerings, disclosure matters, stock exchange listing standards and Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Dodd-Frank Act compliance.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nicole Crum, Howard Berkenblit, David Mahaffey, David Leahy