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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Driehaus Mutual Funds

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of Driehaus Mutual Funds (the "Trust") (comprising Driehaus Emerging Markets Growth Fund, Driehaus Emerging Markets Small Cap Growth Fund, Driehaus Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, Driehaus International Small Cap Growth Fund, Driehaus Micro Cap Growth Fund, Driehaus Small Cap Growth Fund, Driehaus Small/Mid Cap Growth Fund and Driehaus Event Driven Fund (collectively referred to as the "Funds")), including the schedules of investments, as of December 31, 2021, and the related statements of operations and changes in net assets, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below and the related notes (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds comprising Driehaus Mutual Funds at December 31, 2021, the results of their operations, changes in net assets and financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Funds comprising Driehaus

Statement of

Statements of

Financial highlights

Mutual Funds

operations

changes in net

 

 

 

assets

 

 

 

 

 

Driehaus Emerging Markets

For the year ended

For each of the

For each of the five years in the

December 31, 2021

two years in the

period ended December 31,

Growth Fund

Driehaus Emerging Markets Small

 

period ended

2021

 

December 31,

 

Cap Growth Fund

 

 

 

2021

 

Driehaus International Small Cap

 

 

 

 

 

Growth Fund

 

 

 

Driehaus Micro Cap Growth Fund

 

 

 

Driehaus Event Driven Fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Driehaus Emerging Markets

For the year ended

For each of the

For each of the four years in the

Opportunities Fund

December 31, 2021

two years in the

period ended December 31,

 

 

period ended

2021 and the period from April

 

 

December 31,

10, 2017 (commencement of

 

 

2021

operations) through December

 

 

 

31, 2017

 

 

 

 

Driehaus Small Cap Growth Fund

For the year ended

For each of the

For each of the four years in the

 

December 31, 2021

two years in the

period ended December 31,

 

 

period ended

2021 and the period from

 

 

December 31,

August 21, 2017

 

 

2021

(commencement of operations)

 

 

 

through December 31, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

Driehaus Small/Mid Cap Growth

For the year ended

For the year ended December 31, 2021 and the

Fund

December 31, 2021

period from May 1, 2020 (commencement of

 

 

operations) through December 31, 2020

 

 

 

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the Fund's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust's internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2021, by correspondence with the custodian, counterparties and brokers or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from brokers were not received. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

We have served as the auditor of one or more Driehaus investment companies since 2002.

Chicago, Illinois

February 24, 2022