Mark P. Goshko

Background

Goshko built his career in Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, a city settled in 1630 that grew into a leading center of commerce, finance, and higher education in New England. Its legal profession and financial industry formed the setting in which investment management law developed as a specialty.

Massachusetts has a long constitutional tradition of government, and its courts and public boards reflect the state's system of gubernatorial appointment, a system that later public service appointments connected him with.

Education

Goshko received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1985, graduating magna cum laude. Harvard, founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, and its undergraduate college has long combined a liberal arts curriculum with a research university.

He then studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor in 1988. Founded in 1850, Penn Law is one of the oldest law schools in the United States, and it forms part of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university established in Philadelphia in 1740.

After law school, he clerked for Judge Jerry E. Smith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The Fifth Circuit hears appeals from federal district courts in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, making it one of the federal appellate courts in the Southern United States.

Career

Goshko's professional career began with a clerkship on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which he entered immediately after graduating from law school in 1988. His work for Judge Jerry E. Smith placed him in a federal appellate court whose docket covered a wide range of commercial and regulatory disputes.

His professional record also identifies a partnership with S Eggeuno. He was admitted to practice law in Massachusetts in 1989 and has practiced in Boston since then.

He is a partner at K&L Gates LLP in Boston. The firm was formed in 2005 through the combination of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart and Preston Gates & Ellis, and it initially operated as Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis before adopting the shorter K&L Gates name.

His practice centers on investment management law, including the representation of registered open- and closed-end investment companies, investment company directors, unregistered hedge funds and private investment vehicles, and investment advisers. He deals with regulators such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the New York Stock Exchange, and he conducts compliance reviews and represents advisers in SEC examinations and enforcement proceedings.

He previously coordinated the firm's Asset Management and Investment Funds practice group. He also writes articles for investment industry and business publications and speaks at programs sponsored by organizations including the National Society of Compliance Professionals.

Chambers and Partners, a publisher of peer-reviewed rankings of lawyers, has recognized him in Hedge and Mutual Funds in Massachusetts since 2008 and in Registered Funds nationwide since 2019.

Gubernatorial appointments have also brought him into public service. He served as a member of the Boston Finance Commission, an agency created by Massachusetts legislation in 1909 to examine the finances of the City of Boston and report to municipal and state authorities. He also served as a member of the Massachusetts Judicial Nominating Council, a nonpartisan body that advises the governor on judicial appointments.

Membership

Goshko served as an overseer of the Handel and Haydn Society, a Boston chorus and period-instrument orchestra founded in 1815 by Boston merchants and musicians. The society is named after Handel and Haydn to represent both the tradition of older music and the innovation of newer works, and it is widely regarded as the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States.

He was co-chair of the Committee on Investment Companies and Investment Advisers of the Boston Bar Association, a voluntary association of lawyers in the Boston area whose committees address legal developments affecting the profession and the public.

He is also a member of the Massachusetts State Bar, a statewide professional association of lawyers.

• Overseer (former)

  Handel and Haydn Society , United States

• Former co-chair, Committee on Investment Companies and Investment Advisers

  Boston Bar Association , United States

• Massachusetts State Bar , United States

  1989 - present

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• An anonymous review published in a Chambers USA guide describes him as one of the most knowledgeable and responsive lawyers the reviewer has worked with, and praises his encyclopedic knowledge of investment advisory law.

References

• K&L Gates LLP attorney profile Firm biography describing his partnership in Boston, his investment management practice, former firm and Boston Bar Association roles, his clerkship with Judge Jerry E. Smith, and his education at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
• Chambers USA guide profile Peer-review profile describing his investment management practice, his recognition in Hedge and Mutual Funds and Registered Funds rankings, and his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and Harvard University.