Margery K. Neale Partner MAIN OFFICE: New York Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 787 Seventh Avenue New York, N.Y. 10019-6099, U.S.A. T 212-728-8297 F 212-728-9297

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Margery K. Neale is a partner in the Asset Management Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York.  Ms. Neale specializes in organizing and counseling registered investment companies and advising clients that offer alternative investment vehicles, such as hedge funds, collective trusts, and novel investment products.  She has significant experience advising on regulatory issues affecting the creation and operation of investment companies and business development companies, and on merger and acquisition transactions.  

Ms. Neale serves as fund counsel, and represents independent directors.  Additionally, she has assisted investment advisers on a wide range of matters, including the creation and operation of asset allocation programs involving mutual funds, wrap fee programs, compliance matters and internal investigations. 

Chambers USA (2011) ranks Ms. Neale among the leading individuals nationally practicing in the area of Investment Funds: Registered Funds.

Ms. Neale is a member of the New York City Bar Association.

Prior to joining Willkie, Ms. Neale was a partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP.

• Author, "Life After the Goldstein Decision," Bloomberg Law Reports, Fund Management, vol. 2, no. 8 (October 2006)
  
  
• Author, "Inadvertent Investment Companies: Relief Pursuant to Sections 3(b)(2) and 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940," The Investment Management Institute (Practising Law Institute 2001)
  
  
• Co-Author, Chapter 7, "Distribution of Investment Company Shares," The Investment Company Regulation Deskbook, 1998
  
  
• Author, "Private Investment Companies and Funds for Sophisticated Investors: Recent Proposals," Securities and Commodities Regulation, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Feb. 24, 1993)
  
  
• Author, "Sale of Investment Advisory Business Relating to Mutual Funds from the Seller's Perspective," Investment Companies 1992 (Practising Law Institute 1992)