Matthew Rogers is an associate in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds group. Matt focuses his practice on advising investment advisers, open and closed-end investment companies, unregistered funds and other financial service providers.
Matt counsels clients on commodities law and CFTC and NFA compliance matters. Matt advises investment advisers, commodity pool operators, commodity trading advisors and end-users on a wide range of derivative regulatory and compliance requirements, including cross-border, collateral management and Dodd-Frank matters. His experience also includes negotiating trading documentation, including ISDAs, prime brokerage agreements, futures and cleared swaps agreements and account control agreements.
Matt has experience drafting and reviewing registration statements, board materials and other regulatory and legal documentation for the formation, organization and ongoing operations of registered funds. He assists clients in obtaining regulatory relief from certain U.S. federal securities laws and resolving SEC staff comments on regulatory filings.
Matt advises clients on various regulatory and compliance issues, including private placements and the development of internal compliance and risk management policies and procedures. He also advises investment advisers, broker-dealers, and other financial institutions on performance advertising reviews.
