20 一月 2022 Investment Funds

Linklaters' global investment funds practice records another outstanding year

Linklaters' integrated global investment funds team is proud to report another outstanding year representing top tier sponsors and investors across multiple jurisdictions in their private and public funds endeavours.

During the last 12 months, the global investment funds practice:

  • represented top tier sponsors who have raised more than US$75bn (up from US$62bn in 2020) across various private markets segments, namely in private equity, real estate, infrastructure and credit strategies;
  • acted for the world’s largest cornerstone investors who have committed more than US$25bn (up from US$20bn) to over 175 private funds and co-investments.

Throughout 2021, our clients continued benefitting from the practice’s integrated global offering with broad and deep expertise in both local and international funds matters, a full service with best-in-class expertise encompassing the structuring, formation, taxation and regulation of private funds.

With a clear focus on delivering solutions, the practice takes an innovative approach to advising clients, evidenced by the launch of MFNiQ in May 2021, a ground-breaking tool that was built in collaboration with iManage to automate the generation of ‘most favoured nation’ side letter matrices, reducing a task that could take several days to, in essence, the push of a button.

The practice was also most recently strengthened through the hire of Joel Seow who will establish an investment funds practice in Singapore, building out the firm’s expertise in Asia.

Silke Bernard, the global head of the global investment funds practice, commented:

“2021 was another fantastic year for our practice as we continued to very successfully advise sponsors and investors on some of the most significant and high-profile fundraising and secondary deals in the market.
The global recovery from the pandemic is underway and there is immense demand from the market to both raise and deploy fresh capital around the world. That said, there are also new challenges for 2022, such as fully embracing and embedding the new ESG framework into businesses or successfully navigating the regulatory pipeline and changes ahead.”
We are looking forward to working with our clients on their journey in 2022 and enjoy partnering with them to build their success and reach their commercial goals.”

Linklaters’ clients benefit from an unparalleled overview of the global investment funds market, with specialist, full service expertise from over 70 dedicated funds lawyers, including 15 partners, in the firm’s global investment funds practice across all major financial sponsor centres, such as London, Paris, New York, Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo. The team is supported by fund-experienced tax, finance and deal teams in all relevant jurisdictions around the world.

Find out more about the practice and our work here.