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Investment Funds: Real Estate

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Investment Funds: Real Estate - UK-wide

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Linklaters boasts a comprehensive investment funds group with a global reach, bolstered by significant teams in Luxembourg and Frankfurt. It is regularly called upon to advise on complex and high-value mandates across a broad range of asset classes. The department focuses on real assets and private equity formation, alongside fund restructuring work. It represents some of the largest international asset managers and sovereign wealth funds in both GP and LP mandates. The funds group is known to be a leader in the debt fund space, with an excellent direct lending funds practice.

Notable practitioners

Matthew Keogh is a key contact at Linklaters.

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Work Highlights

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  • Linklaters acted as fund counsel for Barings European Core Property Fund.

Strengths

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  • Their advice is to-the-point, pragmatic and commercial.

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  • Linklaters have a market-leading funds team and consistently provide us with the support and advice that we need across our ventures.

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  • The Linklaters team combines deep technical strengths with a genuine and collaborative approach. They are consistently available, calm under pressure and easy to work with.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Matthew Keogh
    Matthew Keogh

    Matthew Keogh

    Matthew Keogh has a broad private funds practice that covers private equity, debt, venture capital and real estate funds. As well as acting for sponsors, he also acts for investors such as sovereign wealth and pension funds.

    • Matthew gives a commercially reasonable answer, as well as balancing the technical, legal side of things.

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    • Matthew has lots of experience and a very good view of what our competitors are doing in the market.

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    • Matthew is available and easy to work with.

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  • Rahul Manvatkar
    Rahul Manvatkar

    Rahul Manvatkar

    Rahul Manvatkar acts for sponsor clients on private equity, real estate and credit fund formation, as well as managed account and co-investment arrangements.

    • Rahul client service is flawless: he is always available, always thoughtful and completely committed to helping us find the right path through complex issues.

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    • Rahul is technically excellent, personable, friendly and extremely knowledgeable about the market.

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    • Rahul Manvatkar is exceptional and amongst the very best legal advisers we have worked with.

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  • Gareth Crimp
    Gareth Crimp

    Gareth Crimp

    Gareth Crimp specialises in representing sponsors regarding the establishment of real estate funds.

    • Gareth understands the business perspective.

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    • He is very responsive, technically proficient and knows our documents inside out.

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    • Gareth Crimp is one of the smartest minds in Linklaters and a go-to corporate funds lawyer.

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