Law Office of Morris Simkin - As a Securities Regulation Lawyer, I help clients enter into and operate in all aspects of the securities business while complying with Federal securities laws and the rules of the self-regulatory-organizations
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Investment Advisers
  • Register with SEC; File for Exempt Reporting Advisers
  • Draft RIA Written Supervisory Procedures
  • Soft Dollars
    • Draft CCA/RPA agreements
  • Draft Investment Management Agreements
  • Draft Finder's Agreements
  • Handle SEC inspections and enforcement actions
    • At SEC prosecuted case against RIA for misleading advertisements
Custodian and Transfer Agents
  • Draft custody agreement and transfer agent agreements
    • Expert witness in a civil case involving transfer agent operations
    • Draftsman of SEC's Unsafe and Unsound Practices flow chart of securities transfers
    • In house counsel to a bank that was a transfer agent and custodian bank for institutional investors and mutual funds
Mutual Funds
  • Counsel to the independent directors of $3 + billion fund complex
  • Counsel to a major trustee of unit investment trusts
  • Obtain SEC '40 Act exemptions for employees' securities companies
Hedge Funds
  • Draft placement memorandum, operating agreement and management agreement for a hedge fund
  • Prime Broker agreements
  • Capital introduction programs
Swaps and other derivatives
Stock loan, stock borrow and matched book agreements
 

 

 

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