Elizabeth Shea Fries is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Department and a member of its Financial Services Group, as well as chair of its Hedge Funds Practice. She has particular expertise in innovative investment products, hedge funds and other alternative investments, financial services merger and acquisition transactions, fiduciary issues and compliance matters.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Ms. Fries is a member of the International, American and Boston Bar Associations. She is a member of the Council of the Boston Bar Association and a past Co-Chair of its Business Law Section. Ms. Fries is also a member of the Board of Directors of Common Impact, a nonprofit organization that connects skilled professionals from leading companies to high-potential nonprofits for the common good.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Ms. Fries speaks at numerous seminars on various topics, including marketing hedge funds, regulation of investment advisers, bank/broker-dealer regulation, collective investment funds, real estate hedge funds, securities lending, insider trading and investment company issues for non-financial firms.
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
Ms. Fries is admitted to practice in Massachusetts.
RECOGNITION
Ms. Fries has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America. She was a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review at Columbia University School of Law.