Retail Investment Products

Overview

Our Retail Investment Products team provides sophisticated counsel to asset managers and broker-dealers navigating the evolving landscape of retail investment management.

Embedded within Gibson Dunn’s leading Investment Funds Practice Group, our Retail Investment Products team advises asset managers and broker-dealers across the full lifecycle of retail investment products. We offer creative solutions in developing retail investment products, implementing innovative structures, and addressing regulatory, tax and other considerations.

We specialize in guiding alternative asset managers and broker-dealers through all aspects of the structuring, development, and distribution of a broad array of private wealth-focused investment product types across a range of asset classes, including real estate, infrastructure, private equity, and private credit:

• Interval funds
• Tender offer funds
• Business Development Companies (BDCs)
• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
• Retail 3(c)(7) funds
• Other evergreen retail alts structure

From strategic conceptualization and structuring to SEC registration, compliance, distribution, and ongoing operational matters under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and related regulatory frameworks, we steer clients to build retail distribution infrastructure, structure investment products that meet the unique needs of retail investors, and develop innovative go-to-market strategies for those products, including through M&A transactions and joint ventures.

Our cross-practice collaboration integrates private equity, M&A, capital markets, tax, REITs, finance, regulatory, litigation, and securities expertise to deliver commercially driven solutions tailored to clients’ business objectives. The team provides essential legal and strategic counsel in support of growth and innovation in this dynamic practice area.

Whether forming new funds, navigating complex regulatory and compliance challenges, or supporting strategic transactions such as mergers, joint ventures, and capital markets activities, our Retail Investment Products team is positioned to serve clients at the forefront of retail investment management.