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Areas of Practice
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Professional Background
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Court Admissions
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Bar Admissions
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Education
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Additional Information
Areas of Practice
Ms. Bardsley's practice focuses on investment management matters under the federal securities laws and ERISA. These involve a range of regulatory issues applicable to registered investment companies, including mutual funds as well as insurance company products, investment advisers and their affiliates. Her practice also includes the issues of fiduciary responsibility that arise when the provision of financial services to plans subject to ERISA involves multiple services, transactions with affiliated parties and/or "alliances" for the offering of investment alternatives to plans. She regularly advises clients concerning prohibited transaction issues applicable to financial service providers as well as with respect to the retirement vehicles typically offered or served by broker-dealers and other financial institutions.
Professional Background
Prior to joining K&L Gates, Ms. Bardsley was General Counsel of The Calvert Group. She also served as an attorney-adviser to Judge W.M. Drennen of the United States Tax Court.
Professional/Civic Activities
Court Admissions
- U.S. Claims Court
- U.S. Tax Court
Bar Admissions
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Bar of District of Columbia
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Bar of Massachusetts
Education
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LL.M.,
New York University School of Law
(1975)
(Taxation)
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J.D.,
Boston University School of Law
(1974)
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B.A.,
Wellesley College
(1971)
Additional Information
Ms. Bardsley is the contributing author of the chapters on ERISA and DOL enforcement in Money Manager's Compliance Guide, 1994, 1995, authored by members of the firm and of the chapter on the application of ERISA to online investment information in Securities and the Internet: A Compliance Guide, 2000, authored by the firm. She also contributed to You and Your 401(k), 1996 and The 401(k) Plan Handbook, 1997, both authored by J. Julie Jason, and was a member of the Task Force that prepared the Fund Director's Guidebook published by the American Bar Association, November 1996.
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