Eversheds Sutherland Adds Accomplished Financial Services Attorney Ethan Corey as Senior Counsel
Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Ethan D. Corey has joined the firm’s Financial Services Practice as senior counsel. With a financial services career spanning more than 30 years, Mr. Corey brings deep experience in the regulatory compliance space for investment management and other financial services companies with him.
“Ethan is a recognized leader in the financial services industry and his decades-long experience on the investment management and investment funds side will greatly benefit our clients as we help them navigate the complexities of tomorrow’s regulatory environment and a rapidly changing technology landscape,” said Partner Clifford E. Kirsch, US Practice Group Leader of Investment Services and Asset Management at Eversheds Sutherland.
Mr. Corey is a seasoned investment management lawyer with deep knowledge in distribution issues (including FINRA rules) as well as those related to the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. He has also counseled clients on matters related to Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) rules and regulations set forth by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as well as the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Conduct of Business Rules and European legislative frameworks such as MiFID II.
He is a recognized industry leader in the financial services area and a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars and has authored articles on a wide variety of securities regulation issues. He has also been an effective advocate with regulators as a member of industry trade groups. He combines an extensive knowledge of the regulatory and statutory framework with a practical perspective that he brings to the issues.
Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Mr. Corey was a partner in the financial services practice of a national law firm and spent more than 14 years as an attorney at a global investment management company where he was senior vice president and associate general counsel. In this role, he oversaw global regulatory initiatives and supervised the legal department’s distribution, regulatory and corporate group, which supported the company’s institutional investment advisory business.
He began his career as an attorney-adviser in the Division of Market Regulation in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He later served as a senior counsel in the Division of Investment Management at the SEC and as counsel in the financial services practice of an international law firm.
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