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FOR FUNDS & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Legal support for funds,
at the pace of investment.

From investment transactions to post-investment matters, turn the rights, obligations and unresolved questions in documents into actionable next steps for your team.

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A professional discussion of investment documents

Start with the matter at hand.

For fund managers, financial institutions, and their investment, legal and operations teams, with support for specific transactions and ongoing matters. The scope we can accept depends on the type of institution and relevant professional qualifications.

01

Investment transactions

Review investment and shareholder documents, identify conditions precedent, rights and matters for negotiation, and set out inconsistencies between documents.

02

Post-investment matters

Organise notice, consent, information-rights and governance matters, checking triggers, recipients and supporting records.

03

Ongoing legal support

Review confidentiality agreements, commercial contracts and side letters; provide support on most-favoured-nation (MFN) provisions; and clarify clause options, applicable conditions and implementation arrangements.

Materials typically needed

  • The transaction or fund structure, parties involved and the objective of the current decision.
  • Current versions of investment agreements, shareholder agreements, side letters and related supplemental documents.
  • Known points of disagreement, existing commitments, key dates and the team's current assessment.

What you can expect

  • Investment projects: Participate in negotiating and revising transaction documents and preparing for closing, helping move investment transactions towards completion.
  • Post-investment matters: Handle routine post-investment legal matters within the agreed scope. Where an internal fund decision is required, explain the options and refer the decision to the fund.
  • Ongoing support: Ongoing post-investment legal support can be arranged on a monthly or annual basis, allowing recurring matters to be handled promptly with manageable costs.

These are typical areas of work. Specific deliverables, revision rounds and timing are agreed at engagement.

Make the service boundaries clear.

Investment advice, valuation judgments, tax advice, audits, regulatory filing representation and dispute representation are not automatically included. No transaction outcome or regulatory result is guaranteed. Additional work must be expressly agreed.

AI may assist with comparing documents, extracting clauses and organising matters. The responsible lawyer or appropriately qualified professional verifies, assesses and explains applicable rules, the legal effect and priority of provisions, risk trade-offs and external advice.

Explore human review and information-use boundaries

Three confirmations before an engagement.

  1. 01

    Describe the matter

    Begin with the type of matter, basic information about the parties, your objectives and timing. Sensitive original documents are not needed for the first conversation.

  2. 02

    Check conflicts and engagement conditions

    Confirm potential conflicts of interest, required professional qualifications and the scope we can accept before arranging document exchange.

  3. 03

    Confirm the engagement

    Agree in writing on the contracting entity, responsible people, scope of work, deliverables, timing and limits on information use.

Start with a specific matter.

Tell us the background, your objectives and timing. We can then agree on a suitable next step.

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