Gretchen Passe Roin is a senior associate in the firm's Securities Department, and a member of the Investment Management Practice Group. She joined the firm in 2006 and splits her time equally between registered and unregistered fund work.
Practice
In her representation of registered funds, Ms. Roin attends board meetings, drafts registration statements and supplements, works to obtain exemptive relief and no-action assurance, reviews annual and semi-annual reports, manages SEC filings, assists in proxy solicitations, and coordinates annual renewals of advisory and service provider contracts and policies. She works with a wide variety of fund structures, including insurance-dedicated, target date, managed payout, fund-of-fund, closed-end and subadvised registered funds.
Ms. Roin’s work with unregistered funds includes managing the formation of investment vehicles and advisory firms, drafting confidential offering materials, coordinating initial and ongoing filing obligations, responding to a full range of corporate governance and compliance issues, negotiating service provider contracts, drafting side letters, and assisting in acquisitions, mergers and liquidations of funds, investments and advisory firms. She works equally with registered and unregistered advisers to ensure compliance with all applicable foreign and domestic laws, regulations and industry standards.
While in law school, Ms. Roin held a summer position with Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP, where she worked with the Investment Products & Derivatives Group. As a summer associate with Norton Rose, a large international firm based in London, she worked with the US Practice Group to advise unregistered funds and investment advisers.
Professional Activities
Ms. Roin currently serves as a board member for the Nepalese Children's Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization enabling children from the lowest castes in Nepal to receive an education by paying for tuition, immunizations and other necessities. She also serves on the board of the Harvard Catholic Chaplaincy which supports the priests of St. Paul’s parish.
From 2003 to 2006, she was president of the Harvard Consortium on Global Leadership, a group of Harvard Business School, Law School and Kennedy School graduate students which coordinates workshops for world leaders to meet with members of the Harvard community aspiring to roles of responsibility in government, law and business. From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Roin was president of Harvard Impact for Children, a non-profit organization serving children's charities in developing nations.