Brian McNally

Brian McNally has over three decades of regulatory and risk management experience as an investment management lawyer and compliance professional, including various senior roles in the investment funds industry and at the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission.

Brian was for fifteen years partner, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Turner Investments, a $30 billion dollar growth equity and long-short investment manager, responsible for all legal and compliance matters world-wide.

Brian has also served for six years as general Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of a large multi-family office in the Philadelphia area, Chief Compliance Officer of a family of U.S. mutual funds for more than a decade, lead director for six years of an offshore UCITS fund family based in Dublin, Ireland, and director on multiple occasions of Cayman Islands based investment funds. Brian was for five years an attorney in the General Counsel’s Office of the SEC in Washington, D.C., rising to Senior Litigation Counsel as a member of the team responsible for appeals of enforcement and administrative matters in the U.S. federal circuit courts of appeal, and for handing SEC matters before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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He also was an in-house attorney with Bank of America Corporation for five years supporting its investment funds businesses, and in the private practice of law with K & L Gates in Washington, D.C. in its investment management group. In his many years of industry and private experience, Brian has overseen all aspects of investment fund governance, operations, risk and compliance, for many types of investment funds, whether public or private equity, U.S. or offshore, investing long or short, registered and unregistered.

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Brian received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Hamilton College, and his J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review. Brian is the author of a number of articles in the investment management and securities law areas, including articles in the Securities Enforcement Manual, The Investment Lawyer and Board I.Q. Brian is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association (in-house license), and is a registered director with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.