Elliot J. Gluck
Partner, Asset Management
Elliot J. Gluck is a partner in the Asset Management Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Elliot’s practice focuses on representing closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, their investment advisers and their boards in a broad array of corporate and regulatory matters for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in counseling on the organization and operation of registered investment companies, including with respect to innovative and novel products and structures. Elliot counsels clients with respect to trending investment products, such as interval funds and tender offer funds, and trending investments and investment strategies, such as digital assets. He regularly advises registered funds and their boards on a wide range of compliance, corporate governance and complex regulatory matters. Elliot also represents closed-end funds in capital markets transactions, including initial and secondary public offerings of common and preferred stock and rights offerings, and counsels closed-end fund and their boards on strategic matters, such as addressing share price discounts and dealing with activist investors.
Elliot has significant transactional experience, regularly counseling clients on mergers and acquisitions of asset management companies, registered fund mergers and fund adoptions. He also advises investment advisers in a broad array of matters, including new product development, investment advisory/wrap fee programs and regulatory compliance.
Elliot is ranked nationally for Investment Funds: Registered Funds in Chambers USA (2025). In 2016, he was selected as a Rising Star of Mutual Funds at the highly coveted Mutual Fund Industry Awards. Elliot has also been recognized by Legal 500 US and IFLR1000.
Experience
- Co-Author, “Closed-End Fund Governing Documents: The Defense Against Shareholder Activism,” The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation (2025)
- Co-Presenter, “How Interval Funds Can Help Private Fund Managers Expand Their Fundraising Options” (2024)
- Co-Author, " Why More Alternative Asset Managers Should Embrace the 1940 Act," The Investment Lawyer (2023)
- Co-Author, "SEC Proposes Amendments to Money Market Fund Rules," The Investment Lawyer (2022)
- Panelist, "Primary Market/Product Development: ESG Funds," Investment Company Institute Closed-End Fund Conference (2021)
- Co-Presenter, "Interval Funds and Tender Offer Funds: What Managers and Distributors Need to Know," Investment Adviser Association Webinar (2021)
- Co-Presenter, "Key Considerations in Asset Management M&A/Consolidation Transactions," Investment Company Institute Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference (2021)
- Co-Presenter, "New Framework for Use of Derivatives & Other Leveraged Transactions by Registered Funds & BDCs," SIFMA AMG Webinar (2021)
- Co-Author, "Regulation of Investment Advisers Under the Investment Advisers Act," Bloomberg BNA (2014)
- Represented Genstar Capital in its majority investment in First Eagle Investments, an independent, privately owned investment management firm
- Represented WMS Partners, a multi-family office and registered investment adviser, on its acquisition by Homrich Berg Wealth Management
- Counseled AIG in the sale of its retail mutual fund business to Touchstone Investments
- Represented several closed-end funds in their initial public offerings including some of the largest raises in history
- Advised large asset manager on the launching of its initial semi-transparent, actively managed ETFs
- Represented closed-end fund and its independent directors in actions to address discounts and respond to activist shareholder
- Assisted large asset manager in the consolidation of several closed-end funds
- Represented various fund managers in the organization and offering of several unique "alternative" mutual funds
- Advised American Portfolios Financial Services, Inc. in its sale to Advisor Group
- Counseled Aquiline Capital Partners in its strategic investment in SageView Advisory Group
- Advised Simplicity Group Holdings in its sale to Lee Equity Partners
- Assisted Brinker Capital in its merger with Orion Advisor Solutions
- Advised Personal Capital in its sale to Empower Retirement
- Represented TD Asset Management in the transition of its money market fund assets to Federated funds
- Represented Aberdeen Asset Management PLC in its acquisitions of Arden Asset Management, LLC, Artio Global Investors Inc. and the Bank of Hawaii fund business
- Assisted Aberdeen in the consolidation of eight closed-end funds into a single fund and a tender offer for shares of the surviving fund following the consolidation
- Represented Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc. in the refinancing of its leverage facility, including the structuring and private placement of rated preferred stock
- Represented Credit Suisse-advised and Aberdeen-advised closed-end funds in rights, secondary and at-the-market offerings
- Counseled Genstar Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in Cetera Financial Group
- Represented Genstar Capital in its acquisition and subsequent disposition of Institutional Shareholder Services
- Advised Colony Capital in its merger with Northstar Asset Management and Northstar Realty Finance
- Counseled Aquiline Capital Partners and Genstar Capital in their acquisition of AssetMark and Altegris from Genworth Financial, and AssetMark in its subsequent sale to Huatai Securities
- Advised two private equity sponsors in their sale of Interactive Data Corporation to Intercontinental Exchange
- Counseled Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners in their acquisition of Ascensus from J.C. Flowers
- Advised Genstar Capital in its acquisition of Mercer Advisors
- Represented Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse Funds on the sale of Credit Suisse's traditional asset management business to Aberdeen
Credentials
Education
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2004 Yeshiva University, B.S., 1999