Peter D. Fetzer

Partner

Peter Fetzer is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. He is a member of the firm’s Fund Formation & Investment Management Practice. Peter’s practice focuses primarily on the areas of securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling to mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, publicly traded investment advisers, and public companies. He has extensive experience:

  • Counseling and advising mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, and investment advisers on all aspects of the Investment Company Act and the Investment Advisers Act.
  • Negotiating and effecting mutual fund, investment adviser, and public company mergers and acquisitions.
  • Counseling and advising directors and independent directors of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and public companies on corporate governance matters.
  • Counseling mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, investment advisers, and public companies with regard to their periodic and current reports with the SEC.
  • Counseling and advising public companies, closed-end funds, and private funds on proxy solicitations.
  • Counseling and advising public and private companies in connection with the public and private offering of a variety of debt and equity securities.

Affiliations

  • State Bar of Wisconsin
  • American Bar Association
14 October 2024

The Fast Follower’s Guide to Recent AI Law

As investors, entrepreneurs, and engineers supercharge the development of artificial intelligence to the tune of US$184 billion in 2024, this new era will create both winners and losers.
13 August 2024 Deals and Wins

Foley Represents Trading Technologies in Final Stage of Abel Noser Solutions Acquisition

Foley & Lardner LLP represented Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform provider, in its acquisition of START, a broker-neutral trade optimization platform, from Abel Noser Holdings, a majority-owned portfolio company of Estancia Capital Partners.
05 August 2024 Innovative Technology Insights

Don’t Buy The Buzzwords: “AI Washing” Gets Its Reckoning

As with past technological breakthroughs, companies may be tempted to overstate their AI capabilities to draw investor attention.
Cybersecurity
13 June 2024 Innovative Technology Insights

SEC Tightens Cybersecurity Requirements with Regulation S-P Amendments

For covered institutions the amended regulation not only ushers in a mandatory data breach reporting requirement but also imposes additional cybersecurity requirements.
12 June 2024 In the News

Foley Attorneys Assess AI, Regulatory Risks in Financial Markets

11 January 2024 Innovative Technology Insights

SEC Greenlights Bitcoin ETFs: What Happened and What It Portends

The SEC’s approval of BTC ETFs opens the door to new investors in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.