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Retail Asset Managers

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We advise financial sponsors, asset managers, private banks, family offices and service providers on their activities in the retail asset management space, including on available investment structures (eg funds, managed accounts), sales/marketing aspects (including cross-border) and various regulatory topics related to retail and semi-professional investors.

Our service offering

Full service offering

We have a fully integrated global funds and regulatory practice. Leveraging our relationships across the asset management and funds sector, our team has developed closely with the sector and we can offer commercial and pragmatic solutions to the most complex problems in the ever-changing regulatory environment.

Deep market insight

We have a very strong funds team in Luxembourg, which is the largest retail investment funds centre in Europe (and the 2nd largest fund centre in the world after the US), alongside our fund and regulatory teams in all other important hubs (eg London, Frankfurt, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong). Luxembourg-based funds are the most sold retail products in Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.

Innovative solutions

We are known for our unique expertise in finding cutting edge solutions for structuring private market funds that target retail and semi-professional investors. We offer our clients innovative solutions through our platform for document automation. We also use the potential of different teams to deliver combined added value in day-to-day project and matter work and at the same time increase the efficiency of existing processes. These include Legal Project Management (LPM), Legal Technology, Innovation and Efficiency, Alternative Resourcing and Knowledge and Information.

RAM sector insights

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European Long Term Investment Funds

The ELTIF was launched with much optimism in 2015. Designed to give retail investors a straightforward route to ‘real economy’ investment projects, it offered an attractive alternative investment opportunity. On 25 November 2021, the European Commission announced significant changes to the ELTIF legislation

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Purple forest

New EU ESG rules for asset managers and financial advisers

The latest EU regulations on sustainable finance have several practical implications for asset managers and financial advisers.

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The increasing governance burden for UK asset managers

We consider the current regulatory requirements, the changing supervisory expectations on conflicts management and board composition, and some important upcoming rule changes in this area.

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ESG Legal Outlook 2021

We explore some of the key global ESG themes we believe will shape the legal outlook for businesses in 2021.

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Asset Management Horizon Report 2021

We outline the sweep of regulatory change affecting the asset management sector, with an eye on what’s coming next. Across the board we consider the consequences of UK and EU divergence, and the consequences of the pandemic.

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Asset management spotlight webinars

For further insights, check out this collection of asset management spotlight webinars.

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