Fund finance

 

Our range of services includes:

  • investor call bridge facilities, to assist funds in meeting investment obligations whatever the relevant timetable and managing the frequency and administration of investor drawdowns;
  • equity bridge facilities, to provide funding pending first or final close of a fund, or pending bringing coinvestment partners into an investment or to provide alternative financing solutions for an investment;
  • "equity commitment" finance structures where direct borrowing by a fund or the giving of guarantees by a fund is not possible;
  • leverage facilities for asset acquisitions, including partnership interests or other economic rights in funds and debt and real estate investment portfolios;
  • coinvestment facilities, to support the coinvestment commitment of general partners or fund executives;
  • buy-out facilities to enable captive funds to buy themselves out of their original owners;
  • warehousing facilities, to support the creation of a portfolio of assets by a fund prior to the launch of CLO or CDO; and
  • pre-close facilities.

 

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"The team has...developed a strong specialist funds lending practice and consequently advises on some of the market's most complex fund financing transactions."

Client Service 'You get a lot of partner time at this firm. The client relationships are obviously very important to them."

Chambers UK 2012