Glen Chen Joins Ropes & Gray’s Global Asset Management Practice in Firm’s New Los Angeles Office

Global law firm Ropes & Gray today announced that Glen Chen has joined the firm as counsel, based in Los Angeles, in the firm’s market-leading asset management practice.

Glen is known by asset management firms as an established and skilled private funds attorney whose practice focuses on the structuring, formation and regulation of onshore and offshore private investment funds, including private equity and venture capital, cryptocurrency, hedge and real estate funds. He also specializes in co-investment vehicles. Glen’s experience encompasses advising institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, family offices, pension plans, endowments, and fund-of funds, in alternative investments.

Bryan Chegwidden, head of the firm's asset management group said, “We are continuing to see sustained fundraising across fund types, especially as fund managers anticipate opportunities that are arising from structural changes to global markets. Glen is a strong and experienced advisor to clients that are operating and structuring funds of all types. He is well positioned to help those market-leading clients capitalize on opportunities around the globe.”

Glen is one is one of 16 private fund partners and counsel across the U.S., London, and Asia to either join Ropes & Gray or be promoted in the past 18 months, bolstering the firm’s global private funds offerings, known across the asset management industry for excellence in guiding clients in ambitious and complex fund work. Consistently recognized by Chambers USA for its outstanding work on fund formation, investment funds, hedge funds, investor representation, and regulatory & compliance, Ropes & Gray attorneys are strategically advising asset management firms on all aspects of their expanding businesses, and fund sponsors and fund investors on the full range of fund types and asset classes.