Roger Joseph

Biography

Roger Joseph is a senior consultant in the Investment Management Practice Group at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He previously served on the firm’s Advisory Board. Roger served as co-chair of Bingham McCutchen LLP’s global financial services practice and as a member of its Executive Board prior to that firm’s combination with Morgan Lewis.

Roger’s clients have included registered mutual funds and closed-end funds, investment advisers and independent directors, as well as sponsors of private equity funds, hedge funds and offshore funds. Roger has participated in many innovative developments in the investment management industry, including heading the legal team that developed the master/feeder legal structure and shepherding the first funds using that structure through the U.S. registration process. 

At Boston University School of Law, Roger teaches a course on the regulation of money management. He is a Trustee and Chair of the Committee on Trustees of the Catholic Schools Foundation, which provides scholarships to needy students attending Catholic elementary and high schools in the Boston area. He is a recipient of the Carolyn and Peter Lynch award for his work on behalf of the Foundation.  

Roger holds an A.B. magna cum laude from Cornell University, where he received the Duniway Prize as the highest ranking Government major, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated first in his class and served as an Articles Editor of the Columbia Law Review.