Investment Management and Investment Funds

We provide advisory and transactional services to all sorts of investment funds, including investment trusts, unit trusts, OEICs and other open-ended and closed-ended vehicles and their managers; boards, trustees, custodians and depositaries; offshore funds, hedge funds and private equity funds and their managers and institutional investors; banks, insurance companies and pension funds, including:

• Preparing and reviewing investment management, advisory, custodian and administration agreements, distribution contracts and prime broker agreements.
• Preparing and reviewing prospectuses, limited partnership agreements, limited liability partnership agreements and fund promotional literature
• Preparing and reviewing placing, Nomad and sponsor agreements
• Fund launches (including real estate and private equity funds) and enhancements
• Establishment of fund managers and of branch offices
• Fund reconstructions, mergers, schemes of arrangement, amalgamations and liquidations
• Advising institutional and fund-of-funds clients in relation to investment in private equity funds
• Acquisitions/sales of investment management businesses
• Corporate governance and directors' duties
• Preparing and reviewing documentation relating to general meetings and other corporate actions