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Jacob C. Tiedt

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Jacob C. Tiedt

Shareholder

Jacob C. Tiedt is a Shareholder in the Chicago office of Vedder Price and a member of the firm’s Investment Services group.

Mr. Tiedt’s practice includes the representation of registered mutual funds, closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds; fund boards of directors; investment advisers; and other financial institutions on a diverse range of legal, regulatory, governance, transactional and compliance matters.

Mr. Tiedt regularly advises registered funds on matters relating to SEC registration, disclosure and compliance; proxy solicitation; NYSE, Nasdaq and FINRA regulation; corporate governance; and board administration. He has extensive experience counseling clients on the development and design of novel and complex investment products and in connection with a broad range of extraordinary transactions, including fund mergers and reorganizations; fund adoption transactions; closed-end fund IPOs, secondary offerings and preferred share transactions; and closed-end fund conversions, rights offerings and repurchase offers.

Mr. Tiedt regularly counsels fund boards of directors on their unique duties and responsibilities relative to fund governance and oversight.

Mr. Tiedt’s experience also includes providing guidance to operating companies and financial institutions on complex investment company status questions. In addition, he has extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, including Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings, as well as registered tender and exchange offers.

Mr. Tiedt regularly writes and speaks on various matters relative to registered funds. Mr. Tiedt serves as Co-Editor of the Investment Services Regulatory Update, a monthly publication that keeps clients updated on relevant regulatory matters. In 2020–2021, the Investment Services Regulatory Update received a Go-To Thought Leadership Award from the National Law Review for its regular contributions and outstanding analysis of SEC amendments and regulations, enforcement actions and proposed rulemaking. Since 2020, Mr. Tiedt has been recommended by The Legal 500 United States in the Investment Funds—Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds category.


Jacob C. Tiedt

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Education

  • University of Michigan Law School, 2003, cum laude
  • Michigan State University, B.A., 2000, with high honors, Phi Beta Kappa

Jacob C. Tiedt

Shareholder

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 2005
  • Illinois, 2008

Jacob C. Tiedt

Shareholder

Jacob C. Tiedt

Shareholder