Jay Spinola Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8970 F 212-728-9970

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Patrick (Jay) Spinola, Jr. is a partner in the Asset Management Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Mr. Spinola specializes in the organization and offering of registered investment companies, and counseling funds and their sponsors in all aspects of their operations. He has significant experience advising clients that offer specialized investment funds, such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), registered funds of hedge funds, principal protected funds and novel investment products. He also has broad transactional experience involving funds and their advisers, including merger and acquisition transactions and fund reorganizations. Mr. Spinola also serves as fund counsel, and represents independent directors. He provides advice to clients on the full range of issues that funds, their Boards and advisers encounter day-to-day, including compliance matters, contract approvals and disclosure issues.