Our Investment Funds team consists of experienced, efficient and committed professionals who are able to offer extensive and sophisticated assistance across all asset classes (real estate, private equity, venture capital, private debt, credit funds, funds investing in digital assets, direct lending, etc).
Thanks to the expertise gained in the sector, the team, led by Alessandro Corno, can provide assistance to local and international alternative investment fund sponsors, LPs, managers and investors, public and private regulated entities (insurance companies, pension schemes, funds of funds) and high-net worth individuals.
The team provides assistance taking into account the legal and regulatory requirements applicable to each specific entity according to the asset class and local directives.
Our legal services include:
- Assistance in connection to the structuring of alternative investment funds (AIFs), covering all legal and financial aspects: structuring of performance fee frameworks; drafting and negotiating agreements regarding the relationship between sponsors and managers; drafting and negotiating constitutional documents with cornerstone investors, as well as funds’ offering documents and placement agreements; drafting of memoranda and opinions for the benefit of investors; assisting sponsors and managers on closing and post-closing activities;
- Assistance in connection to investments into existing or newly formed AIFs: drafting agreements on behalf of investors for the subscription or purchase of units; analysis of the funds’ offering documents and negotiating the constitutional documents of the funds with the AIFs managers; negotiating fund investors’ friendly clauses;
- Assistance in connection to the Alternative Investment Fund Managing Directive (AIFMD) requirements, such as obtaining authorization, registration of existing and new AIF managers; remuneration matters; depositary, delegation and advisory agreements under an AIFMD perspective; marketing of alternative investment funds;
- Assistance on regulatory matters with reference to the entire life cycle of AIFs managers;
- Assistance in connection to conduct of business rules, capital requirements and their discipline and implementation process, as well as on anti-money laundering matters by reviewing policies and procedures and on insolvency procedures of AIFs managers.
- Assistance in connection to extraordinary transactions related to AIFs and their managers, such as mergers, de-mergers and disposal of portfolios.