As a Partner in the Registered Funds Practice, Neesa Patel Sood advises registered funds, their investment advisers and independent board members across a wide range of complex regulatory, compliance, fund governance, operational and transaction-related matters. She regularly provides advice regarding the structuring, launch and day-to-day operations of registered funds. Neesa also has significant transactional experience, counseling clients on fund restructurings as well as fund and adviser merger and acquisition transactions.
Neesa is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. (2023-2024) as a “Next Generation Partner” for Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds and for her work in Registered Funds by Chambers Global (2023-2025) and Chambers USA (Nationwide) (2022-2024). In addition, With Intelligence named Neesa as Independent Counsel of the Year at its 2023 Mutual Fund and ETF Awards. She was also named a “Rising Star” at Fund Intelligence’s 2021 Mutual Fund and ETF Awards.
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Accolades
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Emerging Women Leaders in Law, DCA Live (2024)
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Independent Counsel of the Year, With Intelligence (2023)
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Next Generation Partner - Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds, The Legal 500 (2023-2024)
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Registered Funds, Chambers Global (2023-2025) and Chambers USA (Nationwide) (2022-2024)
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Rising Star, Fund Intelligence (2021)
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Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll – High Honors, D.C. Courts (2020-2023)
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New York State Bar Association Empire State Counsel Honoree (2017, 2021-2023)
Education
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Columbia Law School, 2009 J.D
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University of Maryland, 2006 B.S.
Associations
- Board of Directors, Horton’s Kids
- Member, D.C. Chapter of Women in ETFs
- Member, D.C. Chapter of 100 Women in Finance
Admissions
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District of Columbia 2010
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New York 2010
Neesa Patel Sood is a Partner in the Firm’s Registered Funds Practice. She counsels registered funds, their investment advisers and independent board members across a wide range of complex regulatory, compliance, fund governance, operational and transaction-related matters. Neesa also regularly advises on the structuring, launch and day-to-day operations of registered funds. She additionally has significant transactional experience, counseling clients on fund restructurings as well as fund and adviser merger and acquisition transactions.
Neesa is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. (2023-2024) as a “Next Generation Partner” for Investment Fund Formation and Management: Mutual/Registered/Exchange-Traded Funds, where she is praised for the “depth and breadth of [her] ‘40 Act knowledge, combined with excellent business judgment.” She is also recognized for her work in Registered Funds by Chambers Global (2023-2025) and Chambers USA (Nationwide) (2022-2024), where she is commended by clients for “always looking for ways to strengthen our processes while giving suggestions to solve problems.” In addition, With Intelligence named Neesa as Independent Counsel of the Year at its 2023 Mutual Fund and ETF Awards. She was also named a “Rising Star” at Fund Intelligence’s 2021 Mutual Fund and ETF Awards.
She was named an “Emerging Women Leader in Law” by DCA Live in 2024, for being among “the great women attorneys in the Washington D.C. region who are emerging as leaders within their firms and the broader DC legal community.” In addition, she was named numerous times as a New York State Bar Association Empire State Counsel Honoree.
Neesa received her J.D. in 2009 from the Columbia University School of Law and her B.S. in 2006 from the University of Maryland. She was a Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) Law Fellow in 2006. Neesa is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.