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Investment Management

  • Structures investment funds and their offerings – both public and private.
  • Structures specialized varieties of investment funds, such as alternative mutual funds, derivatives-based funds, cryptocurrency funds, cannabis-focused funds and scholarship plans.
  • Structures and advises on ongoing operational issues to online advice platforms (robo-advisers and trading systems).
  • Structures master-feeder funds to accommodate international investments, such as investments in UCITS, SICAVs and other off-shore collective investment vehicles.
  • Drafts and reviews public and private fund offering documents – both initial and renewal – and continuous disclosure documents, such as prospectuses, fund facts, ETF facts, MRFPs and offering memoranda.
  • Assists on applications to become registered or licenced under applicable laws and provides on-going advice on maintaining registration and licencing.
  • Provides advice on setting up compliance and risk systems for registrant firms and provides on-going advice on the many compliance issues that arise for firms, including on regulatory compliance audits.
  • Assists on merger and acquisition transactions within the Canadian investment management industry.
  • Obtains any required relief from regulatory restrictions so you can operate your investment funds and your business as desired.
  • Negotiates and drafts declarations of trust/trust agreements, limited partnership agreements, incorporation documents, investment management and sub-advisory agreements, custodial agreements and other material contracts.
  • Negotiates and drafts ISDA’s, futures and cleared derivative documentation and advises on derivatives regulatory requirements, trade reporting, registration matters and business conduct requirements.
  • Advises on diverse legal, regulatory, operational and compliance matters relating to investment fund operations, administration and management, sales practices, distribution, sales communications, marketing, fund valuation, fund liquidity, proxy voting and trading.
  • Advises on investment fund governance and conflict of interest issues, including structuring and providing on-going advice to independent review committees and boards of directors.
  • Structures investment funds and their offerings – both public and private.
  • Structures specialized varieties of investment funds, such as alternative mutual funds, derivatives-based funds, cryptocurrency funds, cannabis-focused funds and scholarship plans.
  • Structures and advises on ongoing operational issues to online advice platforms (robo-advisers and trading systems).
  • Structures master-feeder funds to accommodate international investments, such as investments in UCITS, SICAVs and other off-shore collective investment vehicles.
  • Drafts and reviews public and private fund offering documents – both initial and renewal – and continuous disclosure documents, such as prospectuses, fund facts, ETF facts, MRFPs and offering memoranda.
  • Assists on applications to become registered or licenced under applicable laws and provides on-going advice on maintaining registration and licencing.
  • Provides advice on setting up compliance and risk systems for registrant firms and provides on-going advice on the many compliance issues that arise for firms, including on regulatory compliance audits.
  • Assists on merger and acquisition transactions within the Canadian investment management industry.
  • Obtains any required relief from regulatory restrictions so you can operate your investment funds and your business as desired.
  • Negotiates and drafts declarations of trust/trust agreements, limited partnership agreements, incorporation documents, investment management and sub-advisory agreements, custodial agreements and other material contracts.
  • Negotiates and drafts ISDA’s, futures and cleared derivative documentation and advises on derivatives regulatory requirements, trade reporting, registration matters and business conduct requirements.
  • Advises on diverse legal, regulatory, operational and compliance matters relating to investment fund operations, administration and management, sales practices, distribution, sales communications, marketing, fund valuation, fund liquidity, proxy voting and trading.
  • Advises on investment fund governance and conflict of interest issues, including structuring and providing on-going advice to independent review committees and boards of directors.

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Focusing on our clients’ needs is what we do best.

 

BLG continues to focus on the needs of its clients, evidenced by its recent acquisition of AUM Law. Collectively, we bring BLG’s long history of deep investment management expertise and long-standing counsel, with AUM Law’s fixed-fee regulatory compliance offering. Our goal is to expand and automate regulatory compliance services available to our clients as part of BLG Beyond’s portfolio of alternative legal services.

 

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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

 

How a business is evaluated in the market is no longer solely based on its financial success or the products and services it sells. It is also based on reputation and whether it is seen as responsible and responding to investor demands.

 

Clients trust BLG to help them understand and embed ESG into their business strategies.

 

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Survey Report: Navigating the currents of ESG expectations

BLG's Investment Management Group surveyed a range of Canadian fund managers about their administration and disclosures practices for funds that consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in a material way in their investment process (ESG Funds). 

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