Laurin Blumenthal Kleiman

Practice Areas

LAURIN BLUMENTHAL KLEIMAN is a partner in Sidley’s Investment Funds practice. She advises a wide range of domestic and international investment funds and managers on regulatory, compliance, and enforcement issues. Laurie is a frequent speaker on investment manager and fund regulation and compliance as well as on issues relating to the advancement of women in law. Laurie’s practice encompasses advice to both U.S. and non-U.S. managers to investment products of all types — including hedge funds, mutual funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, collateral managers, and managed accounts — with respect to both U.S. federal and state investment manager registration, regulation, and compliance; advice to U.S. registered investment companies, including mutual funds, money market funds, and closed-end funds; advice to financial institutions with respect to investment fund and manager compliance and governance issues and fund and manager mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations; and assistance to investment managers in connection with SEC examinations.

Laurie is an active proponent of advancement of women in the legal profession. She is a member and former firmwide co-chair of Sidley Women. Laurie is a frequent speaker on diversity issues and is a member of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF) advisory board. Laurie is also a member of the Managed Funds Association’s Outside Counsel Forum, the Vanderbilt University Law School Board of Advisors and the board of trustees of the Adaptive Sports Foundation.