Ms. Meer is a partner in K&L Gates' Washington, D.C. office and a member of the Investment Management practice group. She focuses her practice on private investment companies, including hedge and private equity funds, negotiated mergers and acquisitions of investment advisers and broker-dealers, derivatives and related areas.
Ms. Meer structures private funds as limited liability companies, limited partnerships, common trust funds and business trusts, and prepares disclosure documents and organizational documents for such entities. She also advises investment advisers, private fund managers and investment companies on compliance issues, including under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and whether their futures-related trading or advice brings them within the regulatory structure of the Commodity Exchange Act and, if so, with respect to their obligations under the regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association.
Ms. Meer also represents financial institutions with respect to private fund offerings and strategic alliances, counsels clients regarding federal securities law matters (for example, insider trading and short-swing profits issues), and structures employment arrangements and stock-based executive compensation programs.