The 'approachable and client-oriented' team at Norton Rose Fulbright has developed a strong reputation advising on the structuring of regulated and unregulated investment funds across a balanced mix of alternative strategies, including debt funds and real estate. Claire Guilbert provides 'responsive and very commercial' advice from a structuring and regulatory perspective, including as it relates to SFDR compliance and AML rules. Geoffroy Hermanns co-heads the team alongside Guilbert and advises both GPs and LPs (including DFIs and sovereign wealth funds), with a particular focus on work in the Middle East and emerging markets.
Testimonials
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‘I highly recommend Norton Rose for their expertise in the structuring and organisation of regulated and unregulated investment funds, especially in AIFMD, AML/CFT.'
‘The team is approachable, responsive and client oriented. They always take the time to address our concerns or issues and they have a very good practice of the corporate law.’
‘Claire Guilbert is responsive and very commercial.'
Key clients
- Tristan Capital Partners
- Unigestion S.A.
- DFC in consortium with Swedfund
- Mindston Capital
- FMO (Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij)
- African Development Bank
- LCN Capital Partners
- AXA Investment Managers
- BLI – Banque de Luxembourg Investments
- Conning Holdings Limited
- Chimera Capital
- Generali
- NewSpace Capital
- Y Fund SCSp SICAV-RAIF
- Shift Capital SCSp
Work highlights
- Advised Unigestion SA, a Swiss independent specialist asset manager, in the structuring, setup and launch of its third direct private equity fund.
- Advised Conning Holdings Ltd (Conning), a leading global asset manager, and its shareholder, Cathay Life Insurance Co., Ltd (Cathay Life), on Conning’s acquisition by Generali Investment Holdings S.p.A. (GIH), the asset management arm of Italian insurer Generali Group.
- Advising the United States International Development Finance Corporation and Swedfund International AB with respect to their cornerstone investment in the Gigaton Empowerment Fund, a Luxembourg SICAV-RAIF with a French AIFM and an investment manager based in the US and East Africa.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Claire Guilbert, Geoffroy Hermanns