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Nora M. Jordan
Partner
As head of our Investment Management Group, Ms. Jordan advises clients on collective investment vehicles, including hedge funds, mutual funds, closed-end funds and private equity funds. She acts as counsel to the adviser, the fund or the independent directors, depending on the client. Many of her matters involve advising clients concerning compliance with the Investment Company Act and Investment Advisers Act. Ms. Jordan also provides exemptive advice concerning the Investment Company Act for industrial holding companies and non-U.S. trading companies, banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions. She has also worked on a number of acquisitions, reorganizations and structurings of asset managers. Ms. Jordan frequently provides advice to financial institutions that have affiliated asset managers and broker-dealers. Principal and agency transactions between asset manager clients and broker-dealers are highly regulated, and she provides advice on these regulations as well as other regulations affecting private funds, advisers and mutual funds.
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Bar Admissions
  • State of New York
Education
  • B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1980
    • cum laude
  • J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1983
    • with honors

Work Highlights

Representations

  • Morgan Stanley in its sale of its retail investment management business
  • Citi in the creation of a new joint venture with Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney 
  • Putnam in its acquisition by Great-West Lifeco
  • ABN AMRO asset management business in its sale to Fortis Investments
  • Morgan Stanley in its investments in various hedge fund managers (Avenue Capital Group, Lansdowne Partners, FrontPoint Partners), as well as its merger with Dean Witter
  • J.P. Morgan’s investment in American Century, as well as its merger with Chase Manhattan Bank
Recognition

Listed as a leading lawyer in private equity fund formation in several legal industry publications, including:

  • Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business
  • Legalease’s The Legal 500 US
  • IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms
  • Legal Media Group’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Private Equity Lawyers
  • American Lawyer’s “45 under 45” Rising Stars of the Corporate Bar (2003)
Of Note
  • Speaker and author on a variety of investment management topics
  • Panelist at a number of conferences on a variety of asset management issues (e.g., hedge fund issues, investment adviser issues, international fund issues and Investment Company Act issues)
  • Guest lecturer at Duke Law School and Columbia Law School
  • Board of Directors (Vice-Chair), The American Skin Association
Professional History
  • Practice Group Coordinator, Investment Management Group, 2005-present
  • Partner, 1995-present
  • Associate, 1983-1995
Publications
  • New Case Law on Suspension of Hedge Fund Redemptions | Financier Worldwide