Anne Choe > Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP‘s ‘deep expertise’ across all types of funds is appreciated by their client base of global fund and asset management firms and their independent fund directors and trustees. The firm supports registered open-end mutual funds, exchange traded funds, closed-ended funds and business development companies. Margery Neale and Lior Ohayon jointly lead the department from New York, with the former also chairing the registered funds practice where she has extensive experience in the creation and operation of registered open-end mutual funds, ETFs, closed-end funds and BDC’s among others. Further key names in the department are New York based Elliot Gluck who contributes extensive knowledge in closed-end fund capital markets offerings to the team while in Washington DC Benjamin Haskin regularly acts for broker-dealers on various fund products. In New York Jay Spinola is a member of the 1940 Act Bar and has extensive experience with ETF products, regulations and related corporate matters. Anne Choe and Neesa Patel Sood are based in Washington DC, with the former focusing on securities regulation and ETFs, and the latter advising closed-end funds on secondary offerings, tender offers and other transactions. Barry Barbash retired in June 2023.