Michelle Moran

Michelle Moran is a partner in the K&L Gates LLP London office and is a Practice Group Coordinator of the Asset Management and Investment Funds practice group.Ms. Moran advises European and U.S. clients on the establishment, authorization, and management of retail and institutional investment funds in the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg and Jersey. These include UCITS, hedge funds, private funds, investment trusts, real estate funds, segregated institutional portfolios and exchange traded funds. She has worked on a wide variety of transactions involving investment managers, brokers, custodians, fund service providers and operating platforms. Ms. Moran’s extensive regulatory experience includes having participated on the EU Commission working groups responsible for formulating proposals to change UCITS legislation as well as representing numerous financial institutions on sensitive issues involving EU regulators in both contentious and non-contentious matters. She also served as a member of both the Expert Liaison Group and the Investment Bank Advisory Panel formed by HM Treasury to advise on desired policy and legislative change prompted by the financial crisis. Ms. Moran has been consistently recognized since 2005, initially as a Hot 100 lawyer and subsequently in Chambers and Legal 500. More recently, clients have commented, “I value Michelle Moran’s input greatly. As someone who has also done a senior in-house role, she has an excellent perspective on what’s important to me”.