Herbert Smith Freehills LLP works with a market-leading roster of UK-listed clients, regularly handling the full complement of transactional and regulatory matters. Practice head Tim West is a specialist in investment fund work whose wide-ranging capabilities span fund launches, secondary raisings, and regulatory compliance reviews. Closed-ended investment funds specialist Nigel Farr is well versed in both public and private fund formation, while Nish Dissanayake is a regular port of call for clients seeking assistance with regulatory concerns. Other key figures include Shantanu Naravane, who regularly handles closed-ended listed fund work with a private equity or healthcare focus.

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Key clients

  • abrdn Emerging Markets Investment Company
  • abrdn Frontier Markets Investment Company
  • Amedeo Air Four Plus
  • Apax Global Alpha
  • Baillie Gifford US Growth Trust
  • BioPharma Credit
  • Boussard & Gavaudan Holdings
  • Brunner Investment Trust
  • Carador Income Fund
  • CVC Credit Partners European Opportunities
  • Doric Nimrod Air One
  • Doric Nimrod Air Two
  • Doric Nimrod Air Three
  • DRI Capital Inc
  • Gabelli Merger Plus+
  • HarbourVest Global Private Equity
  • Henderson European Focus Trust
  • Highbridge Tactical Credit Fund
  • Hipgnosis Songs Fund
  • Impax Environmental Markets
  • India Capital Growth Fund
  • JPEL Private Equity
  • JP Morgan American Investment Trust
  • JPMorgan Asian Investment Trust
  • JPMorgan Elect
  • JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets

Work highlights

  • Advising RBC Capital Markets and J.P. Morgan Cazenove, as joint bookrunners, in connection with a proposed placing by 3i Infrastructure.
  • Advising JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI) on its merger with The Scottish Investment Trust (SIT).
  • Acted for JGGI on a proposed combination with JPE pursuant to a scheme of reconstruction under section 110 of the Insolvency Act 1986.

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Nigel specialises in investment fund work. Acting for asset managers, the funds they manage and investment banks and brokers, he has been involved in numerous London and Euronext listed public fund launches, secondary capital raisings, takeovers, proxy battles, capital reorganisations and reconstructions. He also handles private fund formation work. Nigel has extensive experience of a wide variety of fund structures and asset classes, including real estate, infrastructure, private equity, hedge fund and other investment strategies. His practice also includes regulatory and other advisory work for asset managers, the funds under their management and their boards of directors and institutional investors.
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Tim specialises in investment funds work and has been involved in numerous fund launches, secondary capital raisings and fund reconstructions, primarily in relation to closed ended investment vehicles (across multiple asset classes and including structured and alternative investment products) where he has led in relation to some of the largest and most complex and innovative structures both in the UK and globally. His practice also includes regulatory and similar own account work for asset managers and their funds.
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Tim West

Other key lawyers

Nigel Farr, Nish Dissanayake, Shantanu Naravene