Allens Arthur Robinson offers one of Australia's best teams of funds management lawyers, with extensive market knowledge and experience in structuring funds, preparing and negotiating fund documentation, and facilitating the acquisition of assets and investments for funds.
Meeting investor aims
This breadth of experience enables us to assist clients across a broad range of areas, including:
- advising on the best structure for the entities involved and the outcomes to be achieved;
- advising on product development and capital raisings, including advising on key strategic issues;
- advising on marketing funds;
- designing and managing due diligence processes;
- preparing information memoranda, reviews and sign-offs;
- negotiating investor subscription arrangements;
- advising on structuring fees, profit sharing arrangements (such as performance fees, carried interests and internal rates of return (IRRs) and employee incentive arrangements;
- advising on optimal exit strategies (including by way of successor funds and/or IPOs);
- advising on corporate governance, conflicts resolution mechanisms and regulatory compliance; and
- drafting, negotiating and settling documentation.
Our team has particular experience establishing and representing funds with alternative or specialised investment strategies: for example, structured product funds, real estate opportunity funds, hedge funds and infrastructure funds. This experience means that we understand the complex matrix of legal, tax, regulatory and employment issues that market participants typically encounter in forming investment funds with alternative asset strategies, and can effectively advise clients on the structuring of establishing transactions undertaken by those funds.
Trusted advisers
The core value we offer is that you have the confidence of working with a team who can readily highlight key issues and risks, and anticipate and proactively manage the responses of investors, asset consultants, regulators and the markets to new products.
