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Edwin Charles Laurenson is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Firm's New York office. Ted is a member of the Firm's Corporate Department, where he focuses his practice on public and private investment funds and investment advisory matters (including the Investment Company Act). His experience covers the formation, SEC registration, offering, regulation and operation of public funds, as well as the formation, offering and regulation of private funds, both hedge funds and private equity funds. He also advises on so-called "inadvertent investment company" issues relating to exemptions from the application of the Investment Company Act, corporate "takeover" matters relating to publicly offered closed-end investment companies, the establishment, federal registration and governance of investment managers and all other aspects of the application of and exemption from the Investment Advisers Act. His other areas of expertise include the law of business trusts, broker-dealer registration requirements, securities lending, the securities aspects of investments in bank-established funds and pension funds and many other related areas of corporate and securities law. Separately, he has a substantial background as a generalist securities and mergers and acquisitions lawyer.
He is an active member of the American Bar Association (ABA), including the Federal securities law subcommittees on investment companies and advisers and private investment entities. He recently served on the Task Force on Hedge Fund Regulation assembled by the ABA Section on Business Law to respond to the SEC's regulatory initiatives with regard to hedge funds and participated in the composition of interpretive questions submitted to the SEC by the private investment entities subcommittee concerning the new hedge fund rules.
Ted is admitted to practice in New York.
Education:
Yale University Law School, J.D., 1975
Amherst College, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1972 | 