Morgan Lewis announced today that Richard Morris, a leading exchange traded fund (“ETF”) lawyer, will join the firm as a Partner in its Investment Management and Securities Industry practice, resident in the firm’s New York office.
Mr. Morris has over twenty years’ experience as an asset management attorney. He has been at the forefront of ETF innovation since 2000 when he helped launch the iShares family of ETFs. He most recently served as General Counsel of WisdomTree Asset Management, one of the most successful and innovative ETF sponsors. In addition, Mr. Morris has worked as a staff attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Office of the General Counsel where he focused on rulemaking and regulatory matters. He has substantial experience structuring complex ETF products, including actively managed, affiliated index and commodity-based ETFs, and has helped his clients obtain various types of cutting-edge SEC exemptive relief that have since become industry standard.
At Morgan Lewis, he joins an interdisciplinary team of more than 60 attorneys, who provide a full range of legal services to clients in the financial services industry in the United States and abroad. The firm’s investment management clients include nine of the ten largest money managers listed by Institutional Investor, over 500 mutual funds, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds, banks and trust companies, insurance companies, public and private pension funds, fiduciaries and consultants, transfer agents, fund administrators, and other businesses in the investment management industry.
