Ms. Schneider is a partner in the investment management group of K&L Gates and is based in the Washington, D.C. office. She has over twenty years of experience in representing investment advisers and investment companies on transactional, regulatory and compliance matters. She also advises the independent directors of investment companies on corporate governance and regulatory matters. She has substantial experience advising clients on issues relating to social media and cybersecurity. She also assists clients in developing and structuring registered products using alternative investment strategies and “manager-of-managers” structures.
Ms. Schneider serves as Chair of the Subcommittee on Investment Companies and Investment Advisers of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section. She previously served as Co-Chair of the ABA Task Force that authored the Fund Director’s Guidebook, Fourth Edition (2015) and was a significant contributor to the Guidebook’s content.
She is currently serving as Co-Chair of the 2018 ABA Task Force to update and modernize the role and responsibilities of fund directors, which will address how to assist directors in performing their responsibilities most effectively in today’s regulatory and market environment. She also has led efforts to organize, and is serving as a member of, the ABA Task Force on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency and their impact on the asset management industry, and is a member of the ABA Task Force on Investment Company Use of Derivatives and Leverage.
Ms. Schneider was named “Independent Counsel of the Year” in 2017 at the 24th Annual Mutual Fund Industry Awards sponsored by Fund Industry Intelligence and Fund Director Intelligence. The Mutual Fund Industry Awards recognize honorees for their excellence, achievements and contributions to the mutual fund industry. The Independent Counsel of the Year award recognizes a lawyer who has delivered outstanding representation of independent directors. She also has been recommended for mutual/registered funds by The Legal 500 U.S.
