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An asset management partner and head of Fried Frank’s European Private Equity Funds Practice. Specialises in fund formation, representing fund sponsors and financial institutions across a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, venture and growth, infrastructure, credit and real estate. Experience in advising fund managers on carried interest, co-investment and other incentive arrangements, including leveraged co-investment arrangements. Additional experience in a broad range of international private equity transactions, including secondary portfolio acquisitions and synthetic secondaries, fund and management company restructurings and other general corporate matters.

Career

Joined Fried Frank in 2015.

Professional Memberships

Co-chair – European Committee of Women in Fund Finance, a group focused on recognition and promotion of female leaders within the alternative investment fund finance industry.

Personal

LPC, The College of Law (2000); LL.B, The College of Law (1999); BA, Merton College, University of Oxford (1998).

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