Bruce Leto

About Bruce Leto

Bruce Leto counsels investment companies, investment advisers, independent trustees and…

Experience

1. Partner, Chair of the Investment Management Mutual Funds Practice Group

   Stradley Ronon

   Sep 1986 — Present

   Some of the matters on which Mr. Leto has assisted clients include:• drafting and implementing complex compliance programs and procedures to bring clients into compliance with the SEC’s recent sweeping regulatory initiatives• structuring and implementing a unique institutional complex of mutual funds involving fund-of-funds, asset allocation, and significant partnership, tax, and international securities law issues; this project involved the receipt of three SEC exemptive orders• managing a complex-wide proxy solicitation project involving 108 mutual funds and four proxy statements in which an entire complex moved its funds to the Delaware business trust format, converted investment objectives from fundamental to non-fundamental and modernized all of the funds’ investment restrictions• creating and preparing all documentation relating to two closed-end funds offered in firm commitment underwritings, including corporate organization, preparation of the registration statement and preparation of the New York Stock Exchange listing application• managing the reorganization of multiple closed-end funds into a combination of other closed-end and open-end funds• structuring and supervising the conversion of a closed-end fund into an open-end fund

Education

• Haverford College

  B.A., French

  1979 — 1983

• Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law

  J.D., Law

  1983 — 1986