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Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP

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Counting fund and asset managers across the UK, Europe, North America and Australia among its key list of clients, Weil, Gotshal & Manges (London) LLP handles a broad range of matters concerning Brexit, AIFMD and MiFID II, ESG, FCA authorisation, securities regulation and market abuse. Additional key areas of focus include advising fund manager start-ups, spin-outs and other financial service providers in establishing new businesses. Marc Schubert leads the team and has experience in private funds regulatory issues.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Very experienced and long standing work on AIFMD.’
  • ‘Knowledgeable of our business, responsive and good to deal with.’
  • ‘The team is commercial, pragmatic, responsive and solution driven.’

Key clients

  • Advent International
  • Bain Capital
  • Berkshire Partners
  • Brookfield Asset Management
  • Crow Holdings
  • Generation Investment Management
  • Genstar Capital
  • Altamont Capital
  • Lindsay Goldberg
  • Providence Equity

Work highlights

  • Acting for Brookfield Asset Management on the separation of its asset management business from its proprietary investment business, leading on regulatory filings' analysis in over 25 jurisdictions.
  • Advising Brookfield Asset Management, which manages over $750bn of assets, on the regulatory and global securities law aspects on a range of their private funds in the private equity, infrastructure, real estate and credit arenas.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Marc Schubert

Other key lawyers

Hannah Laurie