Samuel Kishiyama
Associate
Samuel Kishiyama focuses his practice on counseling investment companies — including mutual funds, private funds, closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds — and investment advisers on legal, regulatory, compliance and transactional issues. He advises investment management clients in all aspects of legal representation, including drafting and reviewing registration statements, proxy solicitation materials and other regulatory filings; preparing board materials; and researching various securities and corporate law issues.
At the University of California, Irvine School of Law, Sam was managing editor for the UC Irvine Law Review, vice chairperson for internal affairs for the Student Bar Association, pro bono student leader, and law school representative for the Associated Graduate Students student government organization.
During law school, Sam served as an extern for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where he clerked for Administrative Judge Louis Garcia. His responsibilities included drafting summary judgment orders for Equal Pay Act and Title VII cases as applicable to federal agencies and researching and writing memoranda on legal issues.
Before law school, Sam was a paralegal for the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County in Maryland, where he reviewed filings in guardianship cases, oversaw a panel of court-appointed mediators, and monitored cases for compliance with alternative dispute resolution requirements.
