Benjamin J. Haskin Partner MAIN OFFICE: Washington Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 1875 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006-1238, U.S.A. T 202-303-1124 F 202-303-2124

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Benjamin J. Haskin is a partner in the Asset Management Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Washington. Mr. Haskin advises mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, private and offshore funds, investment advisers and broker-dealers on a wide range of investment management issues, including compliance, corporate governance and regulatory matters. He regularly represents fund boards of directors. Mr. Haskin has an active practice conducting internal investigations on behalf of investment companies and investment advisers, including matters related to trading and valuation. He additionally advises investment managers on matters related to the purchase and sale of advisory businesses.

Mr. Haskin is Chairman of the Investment Management Committee of the District of Columbia Bar and serves on the Editorial Boards of The Investment Lawyer and The Journal of Investment Compliance. Mr. Haskin is a member of the American Bar Association’s Investment Companies and Investment Advisers sub-committee and has served on the drafting committees for ABA comment letters.

Mr. Haskin has spoken on a wide range of investment management matters including: "Effect of Changing Regulatory Environment for Regulated Investment Companies" in Boston, "Preparing for Impending Regulatory Changes," "Exchange-Traded Funds: Current Issues and Rulemaking," "Valuation Issues in the Current Economic Environment" in Wilmington, "The Financial Meltdown of 2008 and the Regulatory Responses" at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and at a New York conference entitled "Regulatory Changes in a Post-Credit Crisis, Post-Madoff Environment." Mr. Haskin recently served as moderator of seminars entitled "After Jones v. Harris - Mutual Advisory Contracts in the Wake of the Supreme Court Decision," "Derivatives for Investment Companies," "Forum with the Director of the Division of Investment Management" and "Current Issues in Securities Enforcement for the Investment Management Industry."

• "Selection and Oversight of Sub-Advisers - Obligations and Practices," Vol. 18, No.1 (Jan. 2011) (co-author)
  
  
• "Under the Microscope: Valuation and Hedge Funds," Journal of Investment Compliance, Vol. 10, No. 3 (2009) (co-author)
  
  
• "Eighth Circuit Amends Standards for Review of Mutual Funds," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (June 2009) (co-author)
  
  
• "SEC Update," The Investment Lawyer (December 2008) (co-author)
  
  
• "U.S. Treasury Department’s Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (November 2008) (co-author)
  
  
• "SEC Continues to Address Market-Timing Related Redemption Fee Rule," The Investment Lawyer (May 2006) (co-author)
  
  
• "Hedge Fund Managers to be Subject to SEC Registration and Scrutiny," Bloomberg Law Reports (June 2005) (co-author)
  
  
• "Rule 38a-1: The Road Ahead," The Investment Lawyer (May 2005) (co-author)
  
  
• "SEC Reacts to Scandals by Amending Rules for Investment Advisers’ and Investment Companies’ Codes of Ethics," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (September 2004)
  
  
• "Anti-Money Laundering," IA Week Countdown to Compliance Conference (September 2004)
  
  
• "Serving As a Mutual Fund Sub-Adviser: Issues to Consider," ICAA Newsletter (March 2002)
  
  
• "Avoiding SEC Enforcement Action: Trade Allocation Procedures," ICAA Newsletter (July 1998)
  
  
• "Hiring and Oversight of Sub-Advisers," The Investment Lawyer (January 1998)