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A number of investment managers, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds turn to Herbert Smith Freehills LLP for its capbilities in big-ticket real estate-oriented fund matters. Key names to note include asset management specialist Stephen Newby handles private fund structuring and formation work across various asset classes, with recent real estate-focused highlights including the establishment of multi-asset private equity real estate funds.  

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Key clients

  • abrdn
  • AEW Europe
  • Argent
  • AXA Investment Managers - Real Estate
  • Cabot Square Capital
  • Canada Life
  • Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)
  • Chelsfield
  • Hammerson
  • Hermes Investment Management
  • Hermes Real Estate Investment Management
  • Hines Interests Limited Partnership
  • Lendlease
  • Local Pensions Partnership Investments
  • Moorfield Group Limited
  • Orchard Street Investment Management
  • Oxford Properties
  • PSP
  • Gravis Capital
  • Shuaa Capital
  • Signature Group
  • Sustainable Development Capital

Work highlights

  • Advised Moorfield Group on the establishment of Moorfield Real Estate Fund V.
  • Advised Moorfield Group on a loan co-investment into one of their existing investments - Audley retirement villages.
  • Advised on the sale of 50% interest in the £1bn+ Long Harbour BTR fund to Cadillac Fairview.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Nigel Farr

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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.

Other key lawyers

Stephen Newby, Jonathan Blake, Nigel Farr