Investment Funds
Overview
The management of investment funds involves significant business and legal challenges. Fund managers must compete to attract and retain client capital while staying up-to-date on the latest laws, regulations, and industry best practices in an ever-evolving marketplace of investment strategies and asset classes. We know that speed counts in this market, and our investment funds practice provides our clients with a competitive edge by providing prompt, sophisticated, and practical advice tailored to our clients’ diverse needs.
Services
- Advising investment fund clients and institutional investors throughout the entire fund management life cycle, including:
- Organizational and ownership matters,
- Firm and fund governance matters, including limited partner advisory committees and boards, and
- Employment matters, including compensation and profit-sharing arrangements, employment agreements and employee separation matters, and succession planning.
- Advising fund managers and institutional investors on legal, compliance, and operational matters. We appreciate fund and management company dynamics and operations, and understand the impact of front-, middle-, and back-office operations.
- Working with our colleagues in Financial Services and other practices to provide our clients with tailored solutions on a variety of legal issues, including:
- Financing arrangements,
- Credit analysis and trading support,
- Regulatory examinations and enforcement,
- Privacy, cybersecurity, and data protection,
- Anti-corruption,
- Anti-money laundering,
- Economic sanctions, and
- Public policy matters.
- Advising investment fund clients and institutional investors throughout the entire fund management life cycle, including:
- Drafting and reviewing compliance policies and procedures.
- Advising fund managers on insider trading issues and the handling of material non-public information.
- Advising our investment fund and institutional clients on operational due diligence and general partner, limited partner negotiations.
- Representing investment fund clients in regulatory examination and enforcement matters. Crowell has a deep bench of investigation, enforcement and white-collar attorneys, including many former federal prosecutors and SEC attorneys. We routinely help fund managers navigate SEC and NFA examination and enforcement matters.
- Advising fund managers on restructurings, recapitalizations, fund wind-downs, and secondary transactions.
- Representing buyers and sellers of asset management businesses.
- Advising on seeding and anchoring arrangements, team spinouts and lift-outs, and other joint venture and strategic partnerships.
Contacts
Insights
Firm News | 7 min read | 06.04.26
Crowell & Moring Secures Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2026
Washington – June 4, 2026: Crowell & Moring earned 92 individual rankings for 81 attorneys, as well as 48 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2026 guide. The Chambers guide ranks the country’s top law firms and lawyers through in-depth research, client interviews, and feedback from attorneys at peer firms.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.27.25
FinCEN Axes Corporate Transparency Act’s Reporting Obligations for U.S. Companies and U.S. Persons
Client Alert | 7 min read | 03.18.25
Personae Non Gratae in the Loan Market: Trading Considerations for Disqualified Institutions
Client Alert | 5 min read | 01.08.25
Form PF Compliance Amid Recent SEC Enforcement Actions and Upcoming Deadlines
Insights
Professionals
Insights
Firm News | 7 min read | 06.04.26
Crowell & Moring Secures Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2026
Washington – June 4, 2026: Crowell & Moring earned 92 individual rankings for 81 attorneys, as well as 48 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2026 guide. The Chambers guide ranks the country’s top law firms and lawyers through in-depth research, client interviews, and feedback from attorneys at peer firms.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.27.25
FinCEN Axes Corporate Transparency Act’s Reporting Obligations for U.S. Companies and U.S. Persons
Client Alert | 7 min read | 03.18.25
Personae Non Gratae in the Loan Market: Trading Considerations for Disqualified Institutions
Client Alert | 5 min read | 01.08.25
Form PF Compliance Amid Recent SEC Enforcement Actions and Upcoming Deadlines
Practices
- Financial Services
- Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency
- Derivatives
- Digital Assets and Payments
- Distressed Debt and Claims Trading
- Finance and Transactions
- Financial Services Litigation and Disputes
- Financial Services Regulatory and Enforcement
- Litigation Finance
- Securities Fraud and Financial Investigations
Contacts
Insights
Firm News | 7 min read | 06.04.26
Crowell & Moring Secures Top Rankings in Chambers USA 2026
Washington – June 4, 2026: Crowell & Moring earned 92 individual rankings for 81 attorneys, as well as 48 national and statewide practice area rankings, in the Chambers USA 2026 guide. The Chambers guide ranks the country’s top law firms and lawyers through in-depth research, client interviews, and feedback from attorneys at peer firms.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.27.25
FinCEN Axes Corporate Transparency Act’s Reporting Obligations for U.S. Companies and U.S. Persons
Client Alert | 7 min read | 03.18.25
Personae Non Gratae in the Loan Market: Trading Considerations for Disqualified Institutions
Client Alert | 5 min read | 01.08.25
Form PF Compliance Amid Recent SEC Enforcement Actions and Upcoming Deadlines






