Amy Ward Pershkow > Vedder Price > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Vedder Price Offices
1401 New York Avenue NW Suite 500
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Amy Ward Pershkow
Position
Shareholder
Career
Ms. Pershkow advises investment companies and their independent directors, investment advisers and other financial services companies on SEC regulatory matters. She provides legal counsel on an extensive variety of legal, business and operational issues, including issues related to:
- Open-end and closed-end funds Multi-class funds
- Funds of funds
- Funds utilizing a manager of managers structure
- Registered and private fund advisers
- Real estate and private equity managers
Ms. Pershkow’s experience includes counseling clients on a wide variety of investment management matters, including the formation, registration, reorganization, merger, acquisition and liquidation of investment companies and investment advisers. She assists clients with respect to SEC examinations and inquiries, targeted compliance and business practice reviews, internal investigations and due diligence reviews.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
Admired for its ‘extensive knowledge and experience in the mutual fund industry‘, Vedder Price is a reliable choice for the range of matters in the registered fund sphere, from the plethora of regulatory matters, securities regulations and ERISA and tax matters, to derivatives and structured products, transactions and contentious issues. The practice acts for hundreds of separate open and closed-end Investment Company Act of 1940 registered funds, ranging from those with $5bn to over $100bn in assets. The firm’s Chicago office is a key location for the practice; practice co-heads Cathy Gonzales O’Kelly and Joseph Mannon are based there, as well as Renee Hardt and Deborah Bielicke Eades. Bruce Rosenblum is the third of the trio coordinating the department and is based in Washington DC, alongside Marguerite Bateman and Amy Ward Pershkow.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Rail and road: finance
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Transport > Shipping: finance
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense