Investment Funds: Open-ended Funds

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Provided by Simmons & Simmons LLP

We have a large and extremely broad investment funds practice. We have 17 partners in our Financial Services department in the UK all working for asset managers, of whom 9 are funds formation partners who together have over 160 years’ PQE, covering all five of the categories of “investment funds” listed by Chambers & Partners: Hedge Funds, Open-ended Funds, Closed-ended Funds, Private Equity and Real Estate.

Our preeminent hedge fund practice is second to none, including 6 partners, two of whom having individual Band 1 rankings for Hedge Funds and two others holding long-established individual rankings in “Investment Funds”. We are recognised as “being the market” for hedge funds by the most significant managers.

Additionally, we have developed a very strong open-ended funds practice including 2 leading expert partners Neil Simmonds and Mahrie Webb who specialise in UCITS and other regulated funds.

Our team led by partners Dale Gabbert, David Williams, Matthew Pitman and Cindy Valentine, provides expert advice on a range of private equity, real estate, infrastructure and credit funds.

Among others, we won Asset Management Team of the Year at the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Legal Services 2016 and Best Onshore Law Firm at the HFM European Hedge Fund Services Awards 2017 and 2016, Best Regulatory Practice at the 2017 and 2016 Hedge Fund Journal Awards and, Best New Legal Product for Simmons & Simmons LaunchPlus at The Lawyer’s Business Leadership Awards in 2016.