Investment Funds

We are recognised as a leading advisor to managers, sponsors and institutional investors throughout every stage of the lifecycle of alternative investment funds (AIFs), from initial structuring to operational management and extraordinary transactions.

We have advised on many of the most innovative and complex transactions developed by the market over recent decades and have acquired extensive experience across all major AIF asset classes (real estate, private debt and direct lending, venture capital, etc.) and a broad range of industry sectors (residential, office, logistics, retail, hospitality, renewable energy, data centers, student housing, etc.).

Our services include:

• structuring alternative investment schemes through both contractual structures (investment funds) and corporate structures (Collective Investment Undertakings, or CIUs), including the preparation and negotiation of all related legal, organizational and marketing documentation;
• negotiation of arrangements with investors, cornerstone investors and strategic partners;
• assistance in relationships among managers, investors and other market participants;
• support on regulatory matters relating to fund operations;
• ongoing advice regarding applicable regulations.

We assist clients in connection with the establishment of new asset management companies or CIUs, acquisitions of shareholdings or changes of control involving asset management companies or CIUs, CIU transformations, investment transactions and reorganisations of existing structures, mergers – including cross-border mergers – between asset management companies, fund mergers, fund manager replacements, bankruptcy proceedings and fund liquidations, always seeking to balance market needs, regulatory constraints and investors’ interests.