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Vedder Price Offices

Vedder Price
1401 New York Avenue NW Suite 500
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Bruce A. Rosenblum

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+1 (202) 312 3379 brosenblum@vedderprice.com View profile

Work Department

Investment Services

Position

Shareholder

Career

Mr. Rosenblum focuses his practice on the representation of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) independent directors, investment companies and investment advisors. He provides legal counsel on an extensive variety of legal, business and operational issues, including matters related to:

  • Independent trustee fund governance
  • Fund structures, including ETFs, closed-end funds, “fund-of-funds” and “manager-of-managers”
  • Specialty funds using unique strategies 
  • Fund fees and fund service providers
  • Mergers of fund complexes, including fund mergers 
  • Fund board mergers
  • Fair valuation and fund accounting matters
  • Compliance process and procedures
  • Regulatory inquiry assessment and responses

Mr. Rosenblum’s experience includes service as a senior in-house lawyer at Deutsche Asset Management/Scudder (now DWS) Investments and spending eight years at the SEC, including service as counsel to two SEC Commissioners, one of whom was former SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro, and as a senior lawyer in the Division of Enforcement. During his tenure in-house, he managed a legal team providing services to eight fund boards overseeing mutual funds, closed-end funds and specialty funds. He was also the chief in-house lawyer supervising the development, organization and launch of new funds, and he counseled fund directors and fund officers on compliance, valuation, fund accounting and third-party service provider matters. In addition, he has represented insurance companies and mutual fund boards on various matters related to the development, organization and distribution of variable annuity and variable life insurance products.

Memberships

  • Board Member, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Educational Foundation
  • Advisory Board, Mutual Fund Directors Forum
  • Administrative Shareholder of Vedder Price’s Washington, DC Office, 2018-2020

Education

  • University of South Carolina School of Law, J.D., 1986
  • University of South Carolina Moore School of Business, M.B.A., 1986
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1982, cum laude

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.

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