Funds Lawyer 4+

Funds Lawyer 4+ To £100,000+
This dynamic City firm is looking for an experienced funds lawyer to join their expanding team. You will be advising principally fund managers, establishing closed ended private equity style funds with a focus on key sectors including real estate, energy, infrastructure, debt and buy-out funds. A particular area of interest is in the African funds market. The firm acts for start-up managers as well as some of the firm's key institutional clients.
In addition to acting for fund managers, there is a balanced practice with a number of mandates acting for investors into fund structures and on secondary transactions. They regularly act for pension funds including some of the largest local authority pension funds in the UK.
Relevant experience will include:

• drafting constitutional documentation including limited partnership agreements, unit trust deeds and shareholder agreements;
• drafting and negotiating ancillary documentation such as management agreements and administration agreements;
• advising on carried interest arrangements;
• reviewing marketing material and conducting verification exercises;
• high level advice on UK financial regulation as it relates to investment funds (specifically a familiarity with AIFMD and the UK's financial promotion regime);
• negotiating fund documentation with investors and dealing with side letter requests;
• drafting LLP agreements in relation to setting up new managers;
• dealing with offshore law firms and administrators;
• reviewing fund documentation for institutional investors and preparing user friendly reports;
• negotiating with fund counsel when acting for investors (either as cornerstone investor or as a minority investor) and ideally when acting for UK pension funds; and
• discussing new funds with both start-up and experienced managers.

You must be prepared to work on a small number of mandates that don't fit a traditional private funds role - this will include joint venture agreements and occasionally advice on M&A transactions in the funds space although that type of work is done with the support of the corporate team;·

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