Margery Neale

Margery K. Neale is a partner, Co-Chair of the Asset Management Department and Chair of the Registered Funds practice at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. She focuses on counseling investment companies, investment advisers, fund sponsors and independent directors in all aspects of the fund business.

Margery has significant experience advising on the creation and operation of registered open-end and closed-end investment companies, exchange traded funds (ETFs), and business development companies.  She regularly advises on fund governance, regulatory compliance and a broad range of transactions involving funds and/or advisory organizations.  She represents many different types of clients in the registered fund industry, including some of the largest and most well-known fund groups.

Margery advises investment advisers on a wide range of matters.  Her clients include advisers to registered funds, private funds and separately managed accounts.  She advises on all aspects of an adviser’s business, including regulatory compliance, new product development, and change of control transactions.  

Chambers USA has recognized Margery nationally for leading individuals practicing in the area of Registered Funds ("Star Individual" since 2022; Band 1 since 2012). She is also recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. in the Hall of Fame in the area of Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds. Additionally, Margery was named "Mutual Funds Law Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers in America in 2024, 2019, 2017 and 2012 and was named to the Crain's New York Business 2019 "Notable Women in Law" List.