Investment Funds
Comprehensive legal and regulatory advice for fund managers, portfolio managers, and investors
The business of establishing and running investment funds has become increasingly complex. Our experienced investment funds lawyers and law clerks can advise you in connection with starting or acquiring an asset management business, conducting due diligence on investment managers or opportunities, and selecting, structuring and implementing public or private investment vehicles.
Our clients manage and invest through various pooled vehicles including prospectus-exempt pooled funds, mutual funds including alternative mutual funds, segregated accounts, private equity and venture capital funds, closed-end funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), mortgage investment corporations (MICs), mortgage investment funds, and syndicated mortgage investments.
We can also prepare offering documents (such as term sheets, offering memoranda and prospectuses), subscription agreements, and investment management agreements, as well as prepare and submit filings to regulators.
AUM Law also provides practical and flexible ongoing legal and regulatory counsel to portfolio managers and investors on the issues that arise during the course of their business, including:
- Assisting clients in conducting due diligence and responding to due diligence inquiries
- Material changes to investment funds
- Independent review committee setup and support
- Exemptive relief applications
- Acquisitions of other businesses
- Restructurings and mergers
- Updates and amendments to offering documents
- Review of service provider agreements
Our Approach
AUM Law offers practical, cost-effective legal and regulatory compliance advice from a team that prioritizes your business and understands your industry. We focus on the Canadian asset management sector, and we have deep expertise in the legal and regulatory issues relevant to firms operating in Canada’s exempt and public capital markets.
Our team-based approach, fixed-fee compliance support plans, extensive experience engaging with securities regulators, and connections with other service providers in this industry will help you navigate the evolving securities regulatory environment with confidence so that you can focus on what you do best.
Investment Funds Group Insights
What’s on the AMF’s Agenda this Year? 2023-2024 Annual Statement of Priorities Published
In 2021, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) released its 2021-2025 Strategic Plan, which declared the AMF’s four key guiding principles (called orientations in the plan) that will inform its decisions and actions for the four-year period. On April 27, 2023, the...
OSC Investor Advisor Panel Report Focuses on Citizen (AKA Investor) Protection
On May 30, 2023, the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Advisory Panel (IAP) released its report with respect to its activities in 2022 (the IAP Report). The IAP’s mandate is to solicit and represent the views of investors on the OSC’s policy and rule-making...
Three more Sakura Seasons, then Total Cost Reporting will be Required for the Year Ending December 31, 2026
On April 20, 2023, the securities and insurance regulators announced final changes to total cost reporting (TCR) disclosure for investment funds and individual segregated fund contracts. The changes for the securities sector are through amendments to National...