Sr Director - Legal Funds GPMS in Edinburgh

About The Business

Patria Global Private Market Solutions (GPMS) business manages more than $12bn of primary, secondary and co‑investment investments in multiple jurisdictions and within a broad range of collective funds and segregated accounts. The business has an exciting future following its acquisition by Patria Investments in 2024. Patria is a leading alternative asset manager with over 30 years’ experience in Private Equity, infrastructure, Real Estate and Credit. We are a long‑lasting and resilient entrepreneurial partnership that continually assesses the environment and identifies trends. We quickly adapt our investments and product offering to capture investment opportunities derived from such analysis, delivering consistent results to our clients and creating long‑lasting impact for all our stakeholders.

Role Purpose

We are looking for an experienced and technically expert senior funds lawyer to work across all legal aspects of our products and mandates, in collaboration with tax, compliance and other relevant teams to deliver effective, efficient and risk‑managed client outcomes.

Key Responsibilities Of The Role

• Product/mandate structuring – ensuring the optimal legal structuring of new products/mandates (including negotiating fund and investor documentation and managing mandate closes) and providing legal and structuring support for existing products/mandates, in close collaboration with the Investment, Tax, Compliance, Operations and other relevant teams.
• Providing general legal and regulatory advice to the GPMS business in relation to its investment management activity.
• Identifying, managing and escalating legal and regulatory risks within the GPMS business in relation to its investment management activity.
• Managing key external legal counsel relationships.
• Managing the integration of the GPMS Legal team into the wider Patria Legal function.
• Providing ad‑hoc support to Legal team colleagues focused on Investment execution activities.

Role Specific Qualifications, Skills And Knowledge

• Qualified lawyer
• Expertise in UK and EU funds regulation, including AIFMD
• A background in Private Equity, ideally direct and indirect
• Deep experience of Private Equity structures, entities and regulations. Experience with regulated and/or liquid/semi‑liquid funds, as well as traditional closed‑ended fund structures, would be an advantage
• Demonstrate personal profile and credibility with key stakeholders
• Ability to self‑motivate, handle multiple tasks effectively and work within tight deadlines as well as motivate the wider team with good delegation skills
• Previous experience in PE fund structuring
• Strong people management skills including recruitment, development and planning experience
• The ability to think and act strategically as well as having an eye for detail
• Strong numeracy skills in a commercial context

Work Environment

It isn’t just the performance that matters. We also care about the way we achieve our targets. And we see our way of working as a differentiator, which contributes to retain the best team, to establish long‑term relationships with clients, to expand to other countries, and to attract investors and partners who allow us to generate superior returns.

How we do it:

• Ethical
• Aligned to Our Clients’ Objectives
• Associative and Complementary
• United by a Purpose
• Disciplined, criteria‑driven and hands‑on
• Environment that fosters high performance

Diversity

At Patria we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Our employment policies strictly prohibit all forms of discrimination on any of the grounds in relevant laws. All our employment practices are solely based on individual merit and our organization’s needs at the time.