Richard is a corporate lawyer, specialising in investment funds, asset management and M&A.
Richard has experience in advising on the full spectrum of strategic investment fund and sponsor transactional matters, including: IPOs and secondaries of closed-ended listed funds; establishment of various PE and JV structures (English LP, Lux and Cayman); and LP-led and GP-led transactions. Richard has also advised on public and private M&A and restructurings of large and mid-cap asset managers and investment funds operating across several jurisdictions, sectors and markets, including advising on: schemes of arrangement and reconstruction, takeovers, and GP-stake acquisitions as well as strategic acquisitions and disposals of asset management businesses. Richard also provides general financial regulatory advice for both investment funds and asset managers.
From March to September 2018, Richard was on secondment in the Financial Risk Management (FRM) team at Man Group Plc.
Associate in the team of the “Winner of The Lawyer's Funds Team of the Year 2021 Award” for the work on Hipgnosis Songs Limited.
Short-listed as lead associate for The Lawyer's Deal of the Year 2020 Award for work on the IPO of JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets Limited.
Background
Richard studied Geography at the University of Oxford and graduated in 2013 as the Burton Scholar with First Class Honours. Richard also read for the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the BPP University in London receiving a Distinction.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Aberdeen New Thai Investment Trust Plc on its merger with Aberdeen Emerging Markets Investment Company Limited under a Section 110 Scheme of Reconstruction to form a single listed fund of £450m AUM
- Moorfield Investment Management Limited on its establishment of Moorfield Real Estate Fund V, a parallel fund structure of UK-domiciled private funds and Lux-domiciled SCS
- Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) on its joint venture with Long Harbour and Cadillac Fairview to form a £1.5 billion UK build-to-rent platform
- ORIX Corporation on its acquisition of a 70 per cent. stake in Gravis Capital Management Limited
- JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets Limited on its IPO on the premium segment of the LSE and its £150 million initial issue and additional secondary convertible (C) share raises
- Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited on its IPO on the specialist fund segment of the LSE (and subsequent migration to the premium segment) and its £120 million initial issue and additional secondary convertible (C) share raises
