Eve Ellis

Eve Ellis is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s asset management group specialising in financial services regulation.

Eve provides advice across a broad range of regulatory matters and has done so for around 15 years. She has been highlighted in Chambers UK as a leading attorney and described as “very client-oriented and very solutions-oriented.” Eve also has an in-depth understanding of fund formation matters, allowing her to provide regulatory advice in context.

Eve regularly advises on issues relating to:

• the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive;
• fund structuring;
• the marketing of financial products;
• whether FCA authorisation is required;
• anti-money laundering and proceeds of crime legislation;
• the establishment of regulated businesses in the UK;
• change of control applications in the context of M&A and re-structuring transactions;
• the interpretation of the FCA rules, including in relation to client money, outsourcing, anti-money laundering, capital requirements, controllers, remuneration, approved persons and authorisation requirements.

• Publications