Practice areas

Associated with any hedge fund formation and ongoing management are the legal and regulatory obligations stemming from statutory law, the FSA rules and MiFID.

Our range of services includes advice on:

• best execution;
• conflicts of interest;
• market abuse;
• insider dealing; and
• compliance generally.

In addition to this, a significant part of our practice involves the review, negotiation and settlement of prime brokerage and ISDA agreements and considering the role of custodians following the collapse of Lehmans and the Madoff affair.

We also assist a number of active institutional investors on their hedge fund investment programmes and regularly review and negotiate the terms of their investments.  The diverse nature of the hedge funds that we encounter in this context allows us to keep a close eye on market terms for hedge funds.