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Practice Area
Investment Management
Anthony C.J. Nuland is a partner in Seward & Kissel's Investment Management group and is located in Seward & Kissel's Washington D.C. office. Mr. Nuland joined Seward & Kissel in 1968 and became a partner in 1977.
From 1973 to 1977, Mr. Nuland was a member of the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission serving successively as special counsel, assistant director and associate director in the Division of Market Regulation and as the first head of its Office of Securities Processing Regulation. While with the Commission, Mr. Nuland was the staff member primarily responsible for formulating and implementing programs to establish a national clearance and settlement system.
Mr. Nuland's practice focuses primarily in the areas of securities, mutual funds and banking law. He has worked extensively on the full range of matters affecting mutual funds, issues involving domestic and foreign custody arrangements and issues under the Uniform Commercial Code involving investment securities and pledges of investment securities and other financial assets. His clients include mutual funds, mutual fund investment advisers, disinterested directors of mutual funds, banks and broker-dealers. Mr. Nuland has advised broker-dealers on brokering deposit products and deposit account sweep products, banks on developing and providing domestic custody services and mutual funds and other financial institutions on using domestic and foreign custodial services. In addition, he acted as consultant to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the "World Bank") in connection with the establishment of mutual funds in the Russian Federation, and with the implementation of new clearing and settlement systems in India and to the Inter-American Investment Corporation in connection with reforms to the Chilean pension laws.
Mr. Nuland's practice before the Securities and Exchange Commission has included advising and representing mutual fund clients in connection with private orders of investigation dealing with such matters as personal trading by portfolio managers, unregistered public offerings of securities, a loss of record keeping control by a fund's transfer agent, violations of Investment Company Act record-keeping requirements, and purchases of ineligible securities by money market funds. He also has advised the disinterested directors of a mutual fund family in connection with investigations relating to record-keeping violations and failures by fund access persons to comply with code of ethics requirements regarding personal trading.
Mr. Nuland received a B.A. degree, cum laude, from Princeton University in 1965, and a J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 1968. He is a member of the bars of New York, the District of Columbia and Georgia. He serves on the American Bar Association's committees on the Uniform Commercial Code and on the Federal Regulation and Securities. | 