Investment Funds Senior Associate

The team stands out for its deep understanding and its practical and commercially minded approach. The lawyers are technically excellent, highly responsive and solutions focused.

We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our Funds team, part of our Financial Institutions Group, in either our Bristol or London office. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well‑respected and growing team, known for having an entrepreneurial outlook and approach. The team works on high value and strategically important projects both nationally and internationally.

Our team has been helping managers to successfully structure, launch and manage funds for years and our experience covers the vast range of fund structures and strategies. That experience enables us to take managers through the life of an investment fund, from the structuring and establishment of management businesses, to developing effective structures for fund vehicles, while finding the best fit with underlying investment and trading strategies.

Our services range from developing optimal structures for management, joint venture, private wealth and fund vehicles and structuring options around carried‑interest, co‑investment and other participations, through (with our tax and regulatory colleagues) to tax planning and structuring, service‑provider relationship negotiation and providing regulatory advice around management, capital‑raising, trading and distribution. Naturally we deal also with a wide range of funds, including Private Equity, Real Estate, Venture Capital, Hedge, Infrastructure and Natural Resources. We also undertake significant amounts of corporate work focused on the wealth management, family office and corporate real‑estate sectors.

By number of lawyers and partners, we have one of the largest specialist funds teams in the UK which includes leading partners in the industry with extensive funds experience. We act for UK‑based and international funds on cross‑border matters.

Recent Work By The Team Includes:

• Venture capital: Acting for Illuminate and Giant Ventures, Passion Capital, firstminute, PiLabs, MMC Ventures, Salica and a variety of other VCs on the launch of their venture capital funds.
• Private equity: Acting as a key adviser to Foresight Group LLP in respect of many of its private equity and venture funds, as well as for Kester Capital, Bridges Fund Management and Farview.
• Real estate: Acting for Niam, Fiera Capital, Bridges Fund Management, Newcore and Barwood Capital on their real‑estate fund launches.
• Hedge funds: Launch of the RX Diversified Portfolio, an ETF arbitrage fund focused on HNW and family office clients; advice to a number of prominent global hedge fund managers; acting on the launch of various first time funds such as Marine, Feoh, Derby Investments, Juniper; advising various principals on management and partnership issues relating to their ownership stakes in hedge fund managers.
• LP secondaries: Undertaking significant secondary trades for one of the leading PE Secondaries funds, Hollyport Capital.
• LP work: Representing various long‑standing LP clients including global asset managers, occupational pension schemes, local government pension schemes and pools and fund of funds, on their LP investments.
• Corporate real‑estate: Providing corporate real‑estate advice for clients such as InfraRed, Warehouse REIT and Patrizia.
• Wealth Management: Acting for various wealth managers on the formation of funds of one, co‑invest vehicles, carry vehicles and advisory structures with related tax, corporate and regulatory advice.

Our Financial Institutions Group operates from our London and Bristol offices and comprises 10 Partners, 2 Legal Directors, 6 Associate Directors, 6 Senior Associates, 13 Associates, 5 Trainee Solicitors, 2 Solicitor Apprentices and 8 Paralegals. Around half of this team focuses exclusively on funds work. We work closely with our colleagues in the tax, corporate and contentious FS teams.

You will have knowledge and experience across a broad base of private funds matters, both domestic and international. Due to the sophisticated nature of the work, the high level of client contact and the structure of the team, we are looking to appoint a Senior Associate lawyer, although we will consider candidates with more experience.

Like All Our Lawyers, You Will Benefit From Our Multi‑award Winning Career Development Programme. At Each Stage Of Your Career This Provides You With clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress; high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure; thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues; robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We welcome direct applications for our opportunities – if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Rachael Nye/Angharad Jenkins on rachael.nye@osborneclarke.com / angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com. Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis.

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Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations. Our sector‑based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it’s fundamental to our success. At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks – not to mention our great teams – are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.