Lewis Saffin is a corporate associate in our London Funds and Asset Management team.
Lewis specialises in matters relating to the asset and wealth management industries and advises on all aspects of the structuring, establishment and operation of investment funds across a wide range of asset classes and jurisdictions. Lewis also advises on regulatory matters and distribution projects involving investment fund clients.
Lewis has spent time on secondment to Man Group (2021) and to a London-based start-up business building a tech-enabled, global digital asset management platform (2023).
Lewis is qualified in England and Wales and can advise in English and German.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- an African real estate fund on the migration of its Mauritian investment fund to the UK and the internalisation of the management of the fund
- a global asset manager on the launch of their flagship LTAF and the establishment and launch of a range of internal funds / aggregators
- a large UK asset manager on the negotiation of and amendments to their distribution agreements
- London-listed investment trusts on their capital raising activities
- a reputed UK life insurer on the restructuring of an investment of their unit linked funds in a major urban retail park, including preparation of detailed advisory notes on the regulatory status of the investment and the impact of the restructure.
- a global asset manager on renegotiating its distribution agreement with a global distributor
- a global asset manager on updating agreements across its global distribution agreement suite to reflect Luxembourgish and Irish regulatory developments
- various regulatory analyses in connection with collective investment scheme status in the real estate sector
- a start-up digital asset business on development and global structuring (including coordination of local counsel in non-UK jurisdictions) of, and regulatory and distribution strategy in relation to, its tech-enabled, digital asset management platform
