The investment managers sector is highly responsive to economic trends. An ageing population, the investment needs of the younger generation and of emerging countries continue to drive the sector.
However the industry itself is likely to consolidate with fewer mega-managers and large niche players likely to emerge, alongside more strategic alliances. Regulatory scrutiny will only increase.
Stand alone asset managers, investment management arms of banks and insurance conglomerates and alternative asset managers, both onshore and offshore, rely on Linklaters’ sophisticated advice on corporate structures, asset management and investment fund products and structures. This includes set up and launch, warranties for complex structured funds, property funds, funds of property funds, alternative funds and pension funds and regulatory advice.
Linklaters has devised an astonishing array of financial products to satisfy the demands of the international market. The team’s market knowledge, product understanding and formidable technical skills allow them to transform an idea into a product fast. The firm has helped many clients to be the first to bring a product to market, a significant competitive advantage. Linklaters’ investment managers lawyers have been responsible for many innovations of recent years, including pan-European Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) and UCITs.
Linklaters lawyers help clients to reshape products for the market. They are shape the products of tomorrow for clients; likely to include distressed asset funds, emerging market funds, exchange traded funds, sustainable funds and a range of products to meet future client needs.
Linklaters’ focus on the investment managers sector is led by two eminent lawyers in the field. Linklaters’ global investment management group head Tim Shipton has specialised in fund work for 25 years, with a particular expertise in real estate fund structures. A senior funds industry figure, Freddy Brausch advises the Luxembourg financial authorities and was a member of the European Commission’s first expert group on asset management. He is on the board of the Luxembourg flagship funds of several major funds complexes.
Contact us
To discuss legal issues with Linklaters’ global investment funds team, please contact leaders Tim Shipton or Freddy Brausch.
For information about our capabilities in investment funds, please contact sector leader Christine Sieg on (35 22) 608 8290.
Recent transactions include advising:
- HOPU Capital on the establishment of HOPU USD Master Fund I, L.P. a US$2bn China focused private equity fund
- the underwriters on the global offer of shares in HarbourVest Global Private Equity Limited, a newly established Guernsey investment company which invests in HarbourVest managed private equity fund of funds, and admission to trading on EuroNext Amsterdam
- Cofra on the establishment of the €4bn Good Energies renewable energies funds (which we believe to be the world’s largest renewable energies funds)
- Perella Weinberg Partners on the establishment and launch of Perella Weinberg Real Estate Fund L.P., an opportunistic real estate fund investing throughout the world, excluding the US
