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Travers Smith LLP has bolstered its Asset Management client offering with the hire of Tosin Adeyeri as a partner in the Funds group, further strengthening its expertise in private funds formation and secondaries work.
In our new Talking. Secondaries. series, we will seek to demystify the secondaries and synthetic secondaries markets and provide insights into the variety of tools available to GPs when looking to provide liquidity to their limited partners and their portfolios.
On 29 June 2023, having completed its passage through parliament, the Financial Services and Markets Bill received Royal Assent.
A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.
After a (relatively) quiet start to 2023 from the perspective of tax developments relating to the real estate sector, the Spring Budget and April's Tax Administration and Maintenance Day (TAAMD) saw the announcement of several important measures and consultations. Several of these relate to real estate funds and stem from the government's ongoing review of the UK fund landscape, such as the publication of a consultation on the possible introduction of a new form of onshore contractual fund.
In this week's issue of Alternative Insights, we are looking at Retailisation and the evolving European regulatory environment.
Travers Smith's asset management team won awards for its expertise in both Fund Finance and Tax at the annual Drawdown Awards yesterday evening - reflecting that the team continues to lead in its tactical and technical advice to the industry.
In our new Talking. Secondaries. series, we will seek to demystify the secondaries and synthetic secondaries markets and provide insights into the variety of tools available to GPs when looking to provide liquidity to their limited partners and their portfolios.
Travers Smith LLP has advised longstanding client abrdn on a LP-led secondary transaction involving the sale of part of its interests in a 3i managed co-investment fund which holds Action to certain third party buyers (the "Buyers").
In our new Talking. Secondaries. series, we will seek to demystify the secondaries and synthetic secondaries markets and provide insights into the variety of tools available to GPs when looking to provide liquidity to their limited partners and their portfolios.
Since April 2022, the UK has had a new tax efficient vehicle – the Qualifying Asset Holding Company (QAHC). This is a key change in the UK’s tax strategy for asset management, part of a wide-ranging review into the UK funds landscape being carried out by the government, designed to enhance the UK’s attractiveness to the sector. The QAHC allows the UK to compete with vehicles on offer in rival European fund centres, in particular Luxembourg and Ireland.
In this week's issue of Alternative Insights, we are looking at the impact of the EU's new foreign subsidies regulation on private equity deals.
In our new Talking. Secondaries. series, we will seek to demystify the secondaries and synthetic secondaries markets and provide insights into the variety of tools available to GPs when looking to provide liquidity to their limited partners and their portfolios.
The secondaries market has evolved rapidly in recent years and continues to grow and diversify, providing private market investors with a wide range of liquidity options.
In this week's issue of Alternative Insights, we are looking at the impact of the EU's new foreign subsidies regulation on private equity deals.
Funds partner, Sam Kay, and Tax partner, Elena Rowlands, have featured in the latest Chambers Global Practice Guides, giving an overview of the current investment funds market and discussing alternative investment funds, retail funds and the recent developments relating to legal, regulatory and tax changes.
By now, most large UK organisations will be familiar with the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme ("ESOS"), which is the UK's implementation of Article 8 of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, requiring those in scope to measure and audit their energy use. In anticipation of ESOS reporting deadline later this year, we outline the main changes to Phase 3, and how they may impact an organisation's energy reporting.