Robert S. Schneider

Robert S. Schnieder is a partner at Sadis & Goldberg LLP and a member of the Corporate and Financial Services Group.  Mr. Schneider oversees the Registered Products Practice of the firm.  He is experienced in acquisitions, mergers and dispositions of industrial, financial services and insurance companies.

He concentrates his practice on the Investment Company Act of 1940, and represents a number of registered investment companies, insurance company separate accounts, private investment funds, investment advisers and broker-dealers.  He has served on the boards of directors of three mutual funds and two broker-dealers; and also has served on the boards of directors and finance committees of two life insurance companies.

Prior to returning to private practice in 1988, Mr. Schneider spent more than 17 years with a major life insurance company, where he was responsible for all of the company’s corporate and securities matters, including matters pertaining to its investment adviser and broker-dealer subsidiaries. After returning to private practice, he spent nearly 14 years with several major law firms, and joined Sadis & Goldberg in 2002 from one of the largest law firms in the U.S.

Mr. Schneider has significant experience in cross-border transactions, and has served as U.S. counsel to several foreign companies and offshore funds.

He has authored a number of articles, and has been a speaker at various seminars, on the insurance and financial services industries.

Mr. Schneider is admitted to practice in New York.  He is a member of the American, New York State, and New York City Bar Associations, and the Association of Life Insurance Counsel, where he previously served as Chairman of the Company Products Committee, Securities Section.  He also is a Fellow of the American College of Investment Counsel.  He received his B.A. in 1963 from Brandeis University, and earned his J.D. in 1966 from Stanford Law School, where he was the recipient of an American Jurisprudence Award.