Our international asset management practice comprises a dedicated team of specialist practitioners in corporate, funds formation, tax, employment, banking and financial services regulation.
We have extensive experience of all types of investment funds and of numerous asset classes and investment strategies including private equity, hedge funds, real estate and shareholder activism. Our credentials include the establishment of a great many UK and offshore funds including investment trusts and other closed ended vehicles, open ended investment companies, authorised and unauthorised unit trusts, pension funds, common investment funds and limited partnerships.
Our asset management team delivers a range of transactional expertise including capital raisings, investments and mergers and acquisitions of managers for private equity and hedge fund operations. Our ECM experence has enabled us to assist clients with pioneering IPOs of funds and managers in London and Amsterdam.
We also handle legal work in many related aspects of asset management businesses, including incentivisation arrangements, regulatory advice, outsourcing and management and administrative arrangements.
“The firm has long been regarded as a leader in investment trusts… [but has] now built an eminent record in representing institutional managers on the launch of their funds of hedge funds”
The Hedge Fund Journal 2006
“Herbert Smith LLP is successfully diversifying beyond its highly rated investment trust work into growth areas such as real estate funds, structured products and hedge funds”
Legal 500 2006
“A good grasp of the legal stuff, but more importantly, a great understanding of our business needs”
Chambers UK 2007