Gerardo Talamo, founder and principal of Talamo Law, has been working for large, global, diversified investment advisers since 2007. Gerardo has spent the bulk of his career in legal departments advising on fund formation and maintenance (registered and private), managed account documentation, international distribution, securities and derivatives (regulations and contracts), employment law, general contract drafting and negotiation.  Between 2018 and 2023, as Aberdeen’s Investments Chief Operating Officer, Americas, Gerardo (i) led the US integration into a new ~$300mm investment platform, (ii) created a structure for managing Aberdeen’s Investments division globally, which included building a single model for governing the use of 300 instrument types, across 150 markets in fifteen nations and (iii) supported the interests of US portfolio managers in all change projects, including regulatory and technological change.  These legal and front-office experiences combine to make Gerardo an uncommonly knowledgeable and business-focused financial services attorney.