Terry D. Nelson is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the firm's Securities, Commodities & Exchange Regulation, Private Equity & Venture Capital and Transactional & Securities Practices. Mr. Nelson's primary practice includes hedge fund organization and operational compliance, and other private fund offerings, broker-dealer and investment adviser registration and compliance issues, and litigation/enforcement matters involving state and federal securities laws and regulations.

In relation to Mr. Nelson's hedge and other private fund practice, he has represented clients in all aspects of the organization, funding, and operations of U.S. domestic and non-U.S. funds. As part of this work, Mr. Nelson has worked with fund sponsors, advisers, distributors, investors, custodians, administrators, prime brokers and other private fund service providers.

Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Nelson served as chief examiner of the Colorado Securities Division and as licensing and regulation examiner with the Office of the Wisconsin Commissioner of Securities.

Mr. Nelson's professional activities include past memberships on the Qualifications Committee of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (now "FINRA") and the Examination and Uniform Securities Act Revision Committees of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. His current professional and charitable activities include serving as the Wisconsin liaison for the American Bar Association's Committee on State Regulation of Securities, board member, Pro Bono counsel, president of the board of directors for the Madison Affiliate of Susan G. Komen For the Cure; continuing contributor to Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions, annual publication for the Wisconsin State Bar Association Business Advisor Series and the Securities Enforcement: Counseling and Defense; and editor of the Foley & Lardner monthly Investment Management Newsletter.

Mr. Nelson graduated, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and his J.D. degree was conferred in 1997 by the University of Wisconsin.