Julie Coleman is counsel in our asset management group, where she advises investment management firms, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and private funds on a broad range of regulatory, governance, compliance, and transactional matters.
Prior to joining the firm, Julie served as deputy general counsel, corporate secretary, chief compliance officer, and the U.S. anti-money laundering officer at Brown Advisory, an investment management firm. In that role, she was responsible for legal, regulatory, corporate governance, and compliance functions, including managing regulatory examinations with the SEC, FINRA, the National Futures Association, and state banking regulators and overseeing compliance programs for registered investment advisers, state-chartered trust companies, and private funds.
Julie also brings experience in anti-bribery compliance consulting from her tenure at TRACE International, where she led the advisory services practice and provided consulting services to multinational corporations pertaining to compliance with international anti-bribery laws, risk assessments, and global anti-bribery compliance program design.
She began her career as a corporate associate at another global law firm in New York, where she represented public and private companies, private equity funds, and underwriters in a range of M&A transactions, private equity investments, private placements, and initial public offerings.