Asset Management

An asset management partner and head of Fried Frank’s European private equity funds practice. Ms. Downey 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. She has 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.

Ms. Downey joined Fried Frank in 2015.

Ms. Downey co-chairs the European Committee of Women in Fund Finance, a group focused on recognition and promotion of women leaders within the alternative investment fund finance industry.

Ms. Downey received both her Postgraduate Diploma in Law and her Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from The College of Law in 1999 and 2000, respectively. She received her BA from Merton College, University of Oxford, in 1998.