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As a Partner in the Registered Funds Practice, Neesa Patel Sood advises registered funds, their investment advisers and independent board members across a wide range of complex regulatory, compliance, fund governance, operational and transaction-related matters. She regularly provides advice regarding the structuring, launch and day-to-day operations of registered funds. Neesa also has significant transactional experience, counseling clients on fund restructurings as well as fund and adviser merger and acquisition transactions. Neesa is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. (2023-2024) as a “Next Generation Partner” for Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds and for her work in Registered Funds by Chambers Global (2023-2025) and Chambers USA (Nationwide) (2022-2024). In addition, With Intelligence named Neesa as Independent Counsel of the Year at its 2023 Mutual Fund and ETF Awards. She was also named a “Rising Star” at Fund Intelligence’s 2021 Mutual Fund and ETF Awards.