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800 BOYLSTON STREET
BOSTON, MA 02199
MASSACHUSETTS
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Thomas Hiller
Work Department
Asset Management
Position
Partner, Co-Head
Career
Tom is a partner in the asset management group and co-head of the firm’s registered funds practice group. His practice focuses on the investment management industry. He represents investment advisers to a range of investment products, including mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, commodity pools and separate accounts. Tom also provides ongoing advice to mutual funds and their independent trustees/directors. He has extensive experience with the following types of matters, among others: the organization of mutual funds, hedge funds and investment advisers; director duties with regard to advisory agreements and Rule 12b-1 plans; investment adviser registration issues; general conflicts and fiduciary duty issues; closed-end fund activist issues; fund reorganizations; fund-of-fund and master/feeder issues; affiliated transactions; and regulatory and compliance issues of all kinds affecting investment management industry clients.
Education
- JD, cum laude, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1994; University of Pennsylvania Law Review
- BA, magna cum laude, Colgate University, 1991; Phi Beta Kappa
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
(Leading lawyers)Ropes & Gray LLP has extensive experience acting as regular counsel to its diverse and growing client base of leading asset and investment management firms and their independent directors and trustees. Their clients rely on the firms strong registered funds practice that advises on all manner of fund launches, including but not limited to registered open-end and closed-end funds, interval and tender offer funds, exchange traded funds and registered funds investing in alternative asset classes. Practice heads Bryan Chegwidden and Michael Doherty are based in New York, with James Thomas in Boston rounding up the registered funds leadership team. Chegwidden has extensive experience advising asset managers and large mutual fund families on alternative investment products, while Doherty additionally covers transactional matters and product development for asset managers. Thomas frequently assists exchange traded funds, registered investment companies and other private investment vehicles, as does Thomas Hiller. John Loder retired in December of 2023.
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
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism