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Veena K. Jain, is counsel in the Investment Management Practice Group in Chicago. Veena, who recently joined the firm from Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP, was also an attorney in Division of Investment Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, DC.
Veena counsels clients in the investment management industry on a variety of day-to-day regulatory, corporate, compliance and contractual matters, as well as on non-routine matters that arise during formation and wind-up of businesses, mergers, sales and purchases of assets, and reorganizations. She also advises clients on structuring new financial products and services. She is experienced in advising registered investment companies and their directors, investment advisers, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, hedge funds and other financial market participants.
While at the SEC, Veena worked primarily in the Office of Chief Counsel, where she responded to no-action and interpretive requests arising under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. She also focused on interpretations of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as they applied to investment companies and investment advisers.
In General. Veena earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and graduated with honors from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in economics/mathematical methods in social sciences. She is a member of the Asian Pacific American Community Outreach Committee of the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago. | 