Overview

Gary Brooks is a partner and member of Chapman’s Investment Management Group. He focuses his practice on the investment management industry, primarily working with registered investment companies (including open-end and closed-end funds) and business development companies, and their investment advisers and boards on a wide range of transactional, regulatory, compliance, and securities law matters.

Gary has extensive experience advising asset management firms on the formation and operation of investment funds across various types of registered fund structures, including open-end funds, interval funds, tender offer funds, listed closed-end funds, business development companies, and exchange-traded funds.

Gary advises fund complexes on the launch and operation of open-end funds and exchange-traded funds focused on a wide range of strategies, including both active and passive strategies. He also advises clients on novel interval and tender offer fund products that invest in less liquid and illiquid asset types. His experience includes advising clients regarding the regulation of investment advisers, broker-dealers, and other financial service providers.

Prior to joining Chapman, Gary practiced law in the registered funds group of an Am Law 10 firm.

Admitted

District of Columbia

New York

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 2013

  • Production Editor, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Certificate in Business and Public Policy, 2013

University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business, B.S., International Business, 2008

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