Roger Joseph is a member of Bingham’s Executive Board. Under Roger’s leadership, the firm’s Investment Management Practice Group grew from a regional U.S. practice to become an award-winning global practice. Roger’s practice encompasses both publicly offered and private investment funds.

Roger is a leader of the firm’s efforts to advise clients on the evolving federal regulatory environment under the Dodd-Frank Act, including the Volcker Rule.

Roger has participated in many innovative developments in the investment management industry, including heading up the legal team that developed the master/feeder legal structure and shepherding the first funds using that structure through the U.S. registration process. He also led the investment management team in the legal structuring of the first principal-protected, actively managed mutual funds.

Most recently, he was co-leader of the legal team that reorganized more than 100 mutual funds. The project included a redomiciliation of the funds, the adoption of fundamental policies for all the funds, and the adoption of a common governance structure for the funds as well as the consolidation of fund boards. He also led the legal team in the preparation of a joint proxy statement covering 137 open and closed-end funds governed by eight separate boards, in connection with the acquisition of a large asset management organization by another large financial services firm.

Under his leadership, Bingham has advised U.S.-registered investment companies and advisers on a wide variety of compliance and regulatory matters, including the development of compliance and risk control procedures. He is one of the co-leaders of the legal team that served as an Independent Compliance Consultant under applicable regulatory orders in reviewing a major mutual fund adviser’s compliance with federal and state securities laws. The findings and “best practice” recommendations from that review were recently submitted in a report to the adviser and to federal and state regulators.

In 2004, Roger oversaw a comprehensive review of the compliance procedures and policies for a large financial services organization that encompassed nine constituent registered investment advisers, more than 200 funds and 12 separate boards. This project also included a review of the policies and procedures of the organization’s two large affiliated broker-dealers that act as distributors of the funds, multiple internal and external transfer agents plus 37 sub-advisers.

Roger is a frequent guest speaker at industry panels and is regularly quoted in industry publications and the business press. His clients include registered mutual funds and closed-end funds, investment advisers and independent directors as well as sponsors of private equity funds, hedge funds and offshore funds.

Prior to joining the firm, Roger served as a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City and as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.