Rajib focuses on investment management and securities law. Rajib counsels investment advisers, registered investment companies (open-end mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds) and private funds on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters. Rajib also has substantial experience in transactions involving investment companies, including mergers and acquisitions of or by investment advisers and fund adoption transactions, as well as counseling foreign and U.S. clients on cross-border transactional and regulatory matters. Rajib also counsels investment advisers, boards of directors and asset management firms on the use and appropriate application of social media tools.
Rajib is chair of the firm’s Attorneys of Color Group, and is a member of the firm’s Hiring, Diversity and Associates Committees.
- Advising Affiliated Managers Group and Managers Funds with respect to several transactions, including the purchase of an advisory firm and the reorganization of that firm’s mutual funds into the Managers Funds complex.
- Advising ProShares with respect to the organization and launch of over fifty exchange-traded funds since 2007.
- Advising the Highland Funds on a variety of different matters, including day-to-day compliance advice, assistance with the organization of new funds, and assistance with exemptive applications, among other matters.
- Advised JPMorgan Funds in connection with the rationalization of its fund line-up after its merger with the One Group Funds. This engagement included advising the Funds with respect to thirty fund reorganizations and proxies relating to investment objective changes for eight funds.
- Advising numerous private equity firms with respect to their initial registration as investment advisers as a result of the Dodd-Frank Act.
- Counseling several companies domiciled in foreign countries or undergoing initial public offerings with respect to avoiding inadvertent classification as investment companies.
- Advising several firms with respect to exemptive applications to offer index, leveraged and active exchange-traded funds.
- Providing advice and counseling with respect to the securities offering rules of foreign countries in connection with the offering of investment advisory services and private fund interests.
- Advising corporations, national associations and political committees with regard to election and lobbying laws.
- Providing negotiation consulting services to large professional service organizations, corporations, non-profit entities and independent directors of mutual funds.
Professional & Civic Activities
Rajib has significant experience in teaching negotiation skills. Since 1998, he has regularly served as an instructor for basic and advanced negotiation workshops at Harvard Law School and elsewhere.
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Education
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JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School, 2000; Hewlett Foundation Law & Negotiation Fellow; Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Negotiation Law Review
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AB (Economics), with honors, Brown University, 1997
Bar Admissions
- Massachusetts
- District of Columbia
Memberships & Affiliations
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