Overview
Our full-service Investment Funds team is led by lawyers based in New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo, with support from our global network of offices. By combining our multidisciplinary knowledge with a globally integrated approach, we provide a comprehensive range of investment funds services to clients on a worldwide basis. We have extensive experience assisting fund sponsors and investors across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa in finding innovative solutions to the challenges they face. We are skilled at reconciling complex regulatory and tax regimes with the competing requirements of fund sponsors, their investment strategies and their target investors. Clients appreciate our commitment to reviewing and negotiating fund structures and documents not only in light of current market terms, but also to advance their specific business objectives and specialized needs. Both registered and unregistered investment funds and their advisers regularly depend on us for assistance on the full spectrum of transactional and regulatory matters.
Our clients include the full spectrum of investment funds, including private equity, hedge, real estate, venture capital, registered mutual (both open-end and closed-end) and UCITS funds, sponsored by some of the highest-profile global fund managers. We work extensively either with or opposite each major category of investor in private funds, including corporate, public and private pension plan, private family, foundation and endowment, fund of funds, sovereign wealth fund and quasi-governmental organization investors. We also represent the wealth management arms and private banks of international financial institutions, family offices, institutional investors, commodity pool operators and leading fund administrators.
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