Investment funds
Our clients are seeking to provide financial services to an extremely high level. We appreciate that they need finely tuned advice from us so that they can deliver excellence to their clients.
Our funds team has exceptional market knowledge and has the ability to execute within tight deadlines in this rapidly changing environment.
We advise fund managers, advisers, other service providers and investors on a range of matters relating to their work and ongoing strategic issues. Many of our clients' projects bring together a number of disciplines; we frequently draw on the expertise of our banking and finance, commercial, corporate, employment, real estate and tax lawyers to provide a seamless service, however complex the work.
International issues are commonplace in what we do. Whether we are advising in relation to the formation of a fund involving offshore vehicles or the amalgamation of a regulated fund between jurisdictions, our independent status ensures that we are able to instruct the very best local counsel. As a result, clients benefit from the highest quality advice suited to their needs and the specific matter in hand.
Related practice areas
"Bridget Barker's nine-partner team at Macfarlanes LLP has a top-notch reputation within the domestic market, both for public and private funds. Private equity is a mainstay of the firm, and Barker and Stephen Robinson have an active fund formation and advisory practice, for clients such as Alchemy Partners, Hermes Private Equity, and Gresham. On the open-ended side, Tim Cornick's practice acts for Aberdeen Asset Management, Fidelity and Old Mutual, to a name a few. Robinson and Matthew Blows are two of the main contacts for closed-ended funds, and recently advised Acencia Debt Strategies on its restructuring proposals."
The UK Legal 500 2010
"This firm is prominent in open-ended retail funds, including UCITS. It garners a lot of recognition for delivering consistent and precise work in fund-raising matters. Recent highlights include acting for Signet Global Fixed Income Strategies on prospectus approval, and for the advisory board to Candover 2008 on the restructuring of the fund. Clients call the team 'innovative and forward-thinking'."
Chambers UK 2011