Chelsea M. Childs

Chelsea is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s global asset management group. With a broad practice that spans regulatory, compliance and transactional aspects of the asset management industry, Chelsea provides comprehensive legal counsel to registered funds, private funds and their advisers. As a co-leader of the firm’s alternative retail working group, Chelsea focuses on structuring, developing and launching innovative “alternative retail” investment products, such as closed-end funds, tender offer funds and interval funds.

Chelsea’s experience includes advising on investment company registration and status issues under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and engaging with the Securities and Exchange Commission on exemptive applications and other regulatory requests. Chelsea also advises on various federal securities laws and SEC filings, such as registration statements, shareholder reports and proxy statements.