Lawyer Overview

Matthew A. Chambers is a partner in the firm's Securities Department, and a member of the Investment Management Practice Group. He joined the firm in 1999.

Practice

Mr. Chambers' practice focuses on investment management matters. His clients include registered investment companies and investment advisers and private and offshore funds.

Until 1995, Mr. Chambers served as Associate Director (Regulation) in the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management. In this capacity, he supervised three offices: the Office of Investment Company Regulation, which is responsible for the review of exemptive applications filed by investment advisers and investment companies; the Office of Regulatory Policy, which writes rules regarding the substantive regulation of investment companies; and the Office of Public Utility Regulation, which administers the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. Mr. Chambers also directed the Division's task force that reexamined investment company regulation and drafted the 1992 report, Protecting Investors: A Half Century of Investment Company Regulation, which set the agenda for mutual fund regulation for several years. 

From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Chambers was with Debevoise & Plimpton, where he concentrated on mutual fund, private fund and investment adviser matters.

Honors and Awards

• Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2008, 2009 and 2010 in the area of securities law
• Selected as a 2007 Washington, DC Super Lawyer for his outstanding work in securities and corporate finance
• Recipient of both the SEC Distinguished Service Award and the SEC Supervisory Excellence Award

Areas of Practice

• Securities
• Investment Management

West Practice Categories

Securities Law

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia

Education

• University of Michigan Law School, 1982
  JD
• Duke University, 1979
  BA

Published Works

• Brave New World for OTC Derivatives: Treasury Proposes Major Overhaul, 2009
• Treasury Proposes Registration of Fund Advisers; SEC Testifies in Support, 2009
• Treasury Proposal for Enhanced Investor Protection: SEC Authorized to Set New Regulatory Standards for the Retail Financial Services Industry, 2009
• Proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Would Cloud SEC Enforcement, 2009
• Congress to Establish Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 2009
• 2009 Revised Form N - 1A and Summary Prospectus Outline, 2009
• Securities Mosaic: The New Rules for Credit Rating Agencies: What Will They Mean for Arrangers of Structured Finance Products?, 2009, 2009
• The New Rules for Credit Rating Agencies: What Will They Mean for Arrangers of Structured Finance Products?, 2009
• SEC Approves Mutual Fund Summary Prospectuses, 2009
• The Beginning of the End of Money Market Funds?, 2009
• Group of Thirty Calls for Prudential Regulation of Hedge Funds, 2009
• Market Crisis--New Draft Legislation, 2008
• Reacting to the Market Crisis, 2008
• New Soft Dollar Guidance: Time for "Soft" Unbundling of Brokerage Commissions between Research and Execution, 2006
• FinCEN Issues Anti-Money Laundering Rules on Foreign Correspondent and Private Banking Accounts: Substantial Due Diligence Mandated for Banks, Broker-Dealers, Mutual Funds, Others, 2006
• The Definition Of Investment Company: A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Within An Enigma, 2003
• Folios: Brokerage Accounts for the 21st Century, 2001
• SEC Issues Dollar Report, 1998
• Mutual Funds in Cyberspace: An Update, 1998
• Affiliated Transactions, 1998
• Investment Advisory Contracts, 1998
• Mutual Funds in Cyberspace, 1995

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