Title
Partner
Company
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Bio
Stacy is a partner in Drinker Biddle & Reath’s nationally ranked Investment Management Practice Group. Her national practice focuses on the representation of registered investment companies and their independent directors and investment advisers. Over the past nineteen years, she has advised clients on a broad range of matters relating to the operation of investment companies, including the organization and offering of open-end and closed-end investment companies, mergers of individual mutual funds and of fund complexes, and compliance and other regulatory matters under the federal securities laws. She has served as fund counsel and/or counsel to the independent directors of fund complexes of all sizes, including a number of large and well-known fund groups. Stacy regularly counsels on topics such as board governance best practices, distribution, D&O insurance, the 15(c) contract renewal process, risk management oversight, and on new regulatory and industry matters, such as the fund liquidity risk management program and DOL fiduciary rules. She has substantial experience relating to alternative investment funds, variable annuity insurance funds, funds of funds, manager of managers structures, series trusts, master-feeder funds and money market funds. Stacy has been consistently recommended in the area of Mutual/Registered Funds law in The Legal 500 United States. She is a member of Drinker Biddle’s Financial Services Steering Committee. She received her J.D. from Washington & Lee University and her B.A. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.