Colin Leaver

Corporate/corporate and commercial.

Colin is a partner in the corporate group. He specialises in the financial institutions sector and leads the team providing corporate advice to the asset management client base. He advises six of the ten largest European hedge fund managers on corporate issues. Colin has extensive experience advising on international corporate finance deals, mergers and acquisitions and capital raising exercises for companies across Europe, India and China. Colin’s recent experience includes: advising BlueCrest on the repurchase of a minority investment held by the Man group for in excess of US$650m; advising a fund promoted and advised by a leading investment bank in relation to various minority investments in asset managers; establishing various alternative investment management groups including Altima Partners and Edoma and advising on the conversion of various alternative investment managers to limited liability partnerships including Perry Capital, Tudor and BlueCrest; advising Gottex Fund Management on its initial public offering and listing on the SWX; advising the shareholders/partners of various hedge fund managers on minority investments by institutional investors including in Lansdowne Partners, Spinnaker Capital and Brevan Howard; and advising on the reorganisations of the BlueCrest and Brevan Howard groups in connection with the establishment of operations in Switzerland.