King & Spalding Recruits Former BNY Mellon Official Matthew J. Bromberg

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 15, 2013) - King & Spalding has recruited Matthew J. Bromberg, former senior managing counsel and managing director in the Global Fund Services Group of The Bank of New York Mellon, as partner in its financial institutions and capital transactions and real estate practices in New York.

"We are delighted to welcome Matt to our New York office and the firm," said Robert F. Perry, managing partner of King & Spalding's New York office. "He is a well-seasoned lawyer with extensive experience in investment management law. His successful record at a number of key financial institutions will be a significant benefit to our clients and extends our scope of services in the financial services arena."

Bromberg has more than 18 years of experience advising clients on a range of matters arising under federal securities, commodities and banking laws, as well as practical experience at some of the most well-known financial services companies. Before BNY Mellon, Bromberg worked at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, Nomura Securities and Deutsche Bank.

"Matt is a strong addition to our financial team and will help expand our investment fund and securities capabilities. We are fortunate to have him join us," said Richard T. Marooney, co-leader of King & Spalding's financial institutions practice. "Matt's expertise in the area of fund sponsors, coupled with the strength of our existing team, allows us to offer fund-sponsor clients 'one-stop' shopping for their capital-raising work, while growing our work in '40 Act funds, exchange-traded funds, business development companies and publicly traded mortgage real estate investment trusts."

Bromberg's primary expertise is in representing registered investment companies -- including exchange traded investment companies (ETFs) and business development companies (BDCs), as well as investment advisers, broker-dealers, transfer agents and other institutions -- in general business, transactional, regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters.

Bromberg received a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School and earned an undergraduate degree from the State University of New York, Albany.

Bromberg said, "I felt the time was right to move into private practice. I am particularly enthusiastic about the opportunity to start and grow my practice at King & Spalding, whose regulatory and compliance expertise, as well as its culture, made it the right choice for me."

Bromberg joins James E. Berger, Henry G. Burnett, Michael P. Dougherty, Tony V. Pezzano and Wendy W.H. Waszmer as the sixth partner King & Spalding has recruited to its New York office in the past 17 months. The 110-lawyer New York office opened in 1990 and has an outstanding reputation for its capital transactions and real estate, corporate, finance, intellectual property and litigation practices.

King & Spalding's capital transactions and real estate practice group provides experienced, sophisticated advice to the firm's real estate clients, earning it a reputation as one of the leading real estate capital markets practices in the United States. More than 70 lawyers in the firm's Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Charlotte, Dubai, New York, Frankfurt, Houston, London, Paris and San Francisco offices are actively engaged in the work of this practice. These lawyers represent some of the world's largest financial institutions, institutional investors, pension funds, investment advisors, asset managers, real estate investment trusts and developers.

King & Spalding's financial institutions practice is comprised of more than 100 lawyers worldwide with expertise in complex financings, private equity, fund formation, litigation, investigations, Islamic finance, real estate capital markets, tax and regulatory matters. King & Spalding was ranked 6th in the United States for lender representations in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters. The firm's class action and real estate practices were each named by Law360 as one of 2012's top five practices in the United States in their respective practice areas. King & Spalding's project finance practice received a tier-one ranking in U.S. News & World Report's 2013 "Best Law Firm" survey.

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