Our established investment funds practice, with lawyers based in the UK, Europe and the Middle East, advises sponsors and major global institutional investors on the full range of investment strategies, delivering practical and innovative solutions to meet their needs.
Drawing on our cross-border capabilities and integrated global offering, we advise fund managers and sponsors on all aspects of fundraising, formation, and structuring through to the negotiation of their investment funds, closing and deployment. We advise on the formation of investment funds spanning sectors and services including: private equity, venture capital, private credit, real estate, and real assets. As trusted partners to our clients, we support the day-to-day progress of these strategies while remaining commercial in our approach to deliver continuous value and efficiency.
We harness our expertise across all relevant jurisdictions and practice areas to ensure our clients receive the best advice and are positioned to achieve success. Clients benefit from our collaborative approach in delivering practical solutions to the most complex problems. In addition to our funds lawyers and transactional lawyers, our specialist teams are fully integrated into the investment funds practice. Of particular relevance when acting on funds matters is the strength of our tax, regulatory, finance, employment and private wealth specialists, and their familiarity with the typical issues that arise on fundraising and fund investment transactions.
As the funds market continues to evolve, we can offer clients insight from our experience and different perspectives to assist them with primary fundraising, as well as secondary liquidity, co-investment strategies and carried interest and 'house' co-investment arrangements.
Our investment funds team also has extensive expertise in advising institutional investors on primary investments, co-investments, separate accounts/funds of one, secondary transactions (LP and GP-led) and other common investment arrangements across private equity, private credit, venture capital, real assets, and other private fund classes on a global basis.
With firsthand experience as in-house counsel for leading investors, we always approach the negotiation with fund managers with our investor clients' legal and commercial interests front of mind. We advise on investment onshore or offshore, and assist clients with tax, regulatory and other issues arising in fund domiciles including: Luxembourg, the Channel Islands, the United Kingdom, Delaware, the Cayman Islands, Ireland and elsewhere.
Our Dubai office serves as a regional hub for Middle East fund structuring, with deep expertise in both the DIFC and ADGM. We advise international and local fund managers and, family offices on launching and managing both regulated fund and unregulated fund and co-investment structures across the UAE and leading offshore jurisdictions. We also act for institutional investor's and family offices investing in such funds and vehicles. Our team has acted on numerous successful fund launches across private equity, venture capital, hedge, and real estate funds, with deep understanding of the region’s regulatory frameworks, operational requirements, and investor expectations.
Alongside a highly experienced investment funds practice, we have leading, tier 1 private equity and venture capital transactional practices. Our private equity team routinely acts for both private equity managers as well as management teams on private equity transactions, and our venture capital team has significant experience both company and investor side. Accordingly, we are very well positioned to advise fund managers on their fund formation work and downstream deal activity.
