Christopher J. Dlutowski is of counsel in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and is a member of the firm's Private Investment Funds Practice. Mr. Dlutowski represents private investment funds and investment management firms on fund structuring and formation, trading and other investment activities, capital raising, and ongoing operations. These funds include domestic and offshore hedge funds, private equity funds, and funds-of-funds. Mr. Dlutowski also represents institutional investors on their investments in private funds. He advises clients on registration and other regulatory issues under the federal securities and commodities laws.

Mr. Dlutowski was previously vice president and corporate counsel in the Public Equity and Fixed Income Law unit of Prudential Financial, Inc., where he advised investment management clients on their hedge funds and other alternative investment products, domestic and foreign institutional investor mandates, trading activities (including securities, derivatives, lending, and financing transactions), marketing efforts, and domestic and foreign registration and other regulatory issues.

Mr. Dlutowski received his J.D./M.S.F.S., a joint degree in law and foreign service, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1993, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow. He received his M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge in 1989 and his B.A., with distinction, history, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.