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Travers Smith LLP is delighted to have been awarded the ‘Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Adviser’ Award at The Drawdown Awards 2024.

Continuation vehicles are typically structured as limited partnerships, with the investors (both rolling and new) constituting limited partners in the vehicle and the GP acting as manager of the vehicle. From a regulatory perspective, this continuation vehicle will typically fall within one of two regulatory categories: an alternative investment fund (“AIF”) or a non-AIF collective investment scheme (“CIS”).

Indirect transfer taxes (or non-resident capital gains taxes) are a key issue on secondary transactions. Generally, this issue can be navigated with a combination of early tax advice and contractual risk allocation between Buyer and Seller.

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 Clipway on its establishment as a new global GP and strategic investment from Carmignac and General Atlantic. Clipway is a new global private equity secondaries firm that leverages proprietary technology to optimise investment strategy. The Clipway team, headquartered in London with an office in New York, is led by veteran secondaries investors and managing partners Vincent Gombault and Ingmar Vallano. 

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.

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 Funds Partner Jeremy Elmore and Head of Asset Management Emily Clark have produced the England & Wales chapter for the latest edition of the International Comparative Legal Guides for Alternative Investment Funds.

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.

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management 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.

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.

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.

Funds and Secondaries Partner Ed Ford has written a special report article for Financier Worldwide, examining the conflicts of interest in the GP-led secondary market.

Funds and Secondaries Partners Ed Ford and Sacha Gofton-Salmond have featured in the latest edition of Private Equity International's Secondaries Report discussing the current macroeconomic conditions impacting the secondaries market and the key considerations for LPs looking to access liquidity. 

Funds and Secondaries Partner Sacha Gofton-Salmond and Finance Partner Katie McMenamin have produced an article for Professional Investor discussing the evolution of the GP-led market. You can read the full article below.