John Loder heads Ropes & Gray’s 100+ lawyer Investment Management practice group. For many years, his practice has focused primarily on investment management industry clients, including investment advisers, mutual funds, hedge funds and the investment management activities and products of banks, broker-dealers and insurance companies. He has extensive experience in the following types of matters, among others:
- the organization of investment advisory firms and investment funds of all types, both SEC-registered and unregistered
- ongoing representation of and advice to open- and closed-end investment companies, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and their independent directors/trustees (currently including over 500 funds with collective assets totaling several hundred billion dollars)
- mergers and acquisitions of investment advisers and funds
- advice with respect to governance, regulatory and compliance issues of all kinds affecting investment management industry clients
- advice regarding government enforcement matters
He also serves as counsel to the independent directors of several large real estate investment trusts.
Fund Groups
- American Century Funds (independent director/trustee counsel)
- Columbia Funds (fund counsel)
- Dodge & Cox Funds (independent trustee counsel)
- HighMark Funds (fund and independent trustee counsel)
- Loomis Sayles Funds (fund counsel)
- Metropolitan Series Fund (fund counsel)
- Natixis Funds (fund counsel)
- PNC Funds (fund counsel)
- ProFunds (fund counsel)
- ProShares (ETFs) (fund counsel)
- Russell Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) (independent trustee counsel)
- Schwab Funds (independent trustee counsel)
Investment Advisers
- Arrowstreet Capital, L.P.
- Caspian Capital Management
- Cavalry Capital Management
- Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P.
- MetLife Advisers, LLC
- Natixis Global Asset Management, L.P.
- Oechsle International Advisors, LLC
- PNC Capital Advisors
Honors & Awards
The Best Lawyers in America (2006-2012) Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2007-2011) PLC Which Lawyer (2010-2011)
Professional & Civic Activities
- Board of Trustees, Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Board of Overseers, New England Conservatory
Clerkships
- Honorable Myron H. Bright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
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Education
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JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1983
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AB, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1980; Phi Beta Kappa
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