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Registered Funds - USA
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Jay Baris is highly skilled in advising registered funds, including ETFs and their independent trustees.
Jay G Baris
Global Guide 2026
Band 2 : Registered Funds
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Lawyers profile | Global 2026: Registered Funds
Jay G Baris
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Practice Areas
Investment Funds
Career
Jay Baris is a Partner at Norm Law in the Investment Funds practice group. Jay brings more than 35 years of experience advising registered funds, investment advisers, financial institutions, broker-dealers, and independent directors across the full spectrum of financial services regulation, transactions, and governance matters.
Prior to joining Norm Law, Jay was a Partner, and then Senior Counsel, at Sidley Austin LLP in New York. He advises mutual funds, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, business development companies, and other financial institutions on fund and investment advisory matters, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, exemptive applications, and compliance. Jay also advises operating companies on issues arising under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and FinTech clients on the application of federal securities laws to crypto assets.
Jay has been consistently recognized in Chambers USA in Registered Funds (Nationwide, 2009–2025) and Chambers Global (2020–2026).
Education
Hofstra University School of Law
J.D.
Strengths
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Jay has extensive '40 Act industry expertise.
Jay has the highest level of expertise, is pragmatic and a pleasure to work with.
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Jay is extremely experienced and well versed in this industry.
Jay has extensive '40 Act industry expertise.
Jay has the highest level of expertise, is pragmatic and a pleasure to work with.
Jay is extremely experienced and well versed in this industry.
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