Mr. Rosenblum focuses his practice on the representation of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund (ETF) independent directors, investment companies and investment advisors. He provides legal counsel on an extensive variety of legal, business and operational issues, including matters related to:

• Independent trustee fund governance
• Fund structures, including ETFs, closed-end funds, “fund-of-funds” and “manager-of-managers”
• Specialty funds using unique strategies 
• Fund fees and fund service providers
• Mergers of fund complexes, including fund mergers 
• Fund board mergers
• Fair valuation and fund accounting matters
• Compliance process and procedures
• Regulatory inquiry assessment and responses

Mr. Rosenblum’s experience includes service as a senior in-house lawyer at Deutsche Asset Management/Scudder (now DWS) Investments and spending eight years at the SEC, including service as counsel to two SEC Commissioners, one of whom was former SEC Chairman Mary L. Schapiro, and as a senior lawyer in the Division of Enforcement. During his tenure in-house, he managed a legal team providing services to eight fund boards overseeing mutual funds, closed-end funds and specialty funds. He was also the chief in-house lawyer supervising the development, organization and launch of new funds, and he counseled fund directors and fund officers on compliance, valuation, fund accounting and third-party service provider matters. In addition, he has represented insurance companies and mutual fund boards on various matters related to the development, organization and distribution of variable annuity and variable life insurance products.

Since 2013, Mr. Rosenblum has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of Mutual Funds Law and serves on the Advisory Board of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum. He is also recommended by The Legal 500 United States in the Investment Funds: Mutual/Registered/Exchange Traded Funds category.