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Pinsent Masons is looking for a Funds Lawyer – 1-3 years PQE

About the Firm:

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,400 employees operating out of 26 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines.

The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice.

We champion change and promote progress to make business work better for people. Pinsent Masons has embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which its people can flourish. We operate an agile working scheme, which offers our employees flexibility in terms of where, and how, they work.

We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a few in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a range of professional disciplines to our clients, enabled by our people, process and technology.

Location: London

Job Type: Full-time

Brief:

We are seeking to recruit a private investment funds lawyer. The candidate will be based in our London office. The ideal candidate would be a lawyer with 1 to 3 years’ experience of funds establishment and related work.

Basic requirements:

The ideal candidate will be able to support our team and will have experience of advising on various matters relating to the establishment of, and investing in, private investment funds. It will also be essential that the candidate enjoys business development as we are a growing team.

Relevant experience will include:

• Drafting constitutional documentation of funds including limited partnership agreements, unit trust deeds and shareholder agreements
• Drafting and negotiating ancillary documentation such as management agreements and administration agreements
• Advising on carried interest arrangements
• Reviewing marketing material
• High level advice on UK financial regulation as it relates to investment funds (specifically a familiarity with AIFMD and the UK’s financial promotion regime)
• Negotiating fund documentation with investors and dealing with side letter requests
• Drafting LLP agreements in relation to setting up new managers
• Dealing with offshore law firms and administrators
• Reviewing fund documentation for institutional investors and preparing user friendly reports
• Negotiating with fund counsel when acting for investors (either as cornerstone investor or as a minority investor) and ideally when acting for UK pension funds; and
• Discussing new funds with both start-up and experienced managers.

Additional attributes:

As well as having the experience mentioned above, the candidate should be:

• Strong academically
• Happy to work on creating marketing material, know-how and being involved in business development – this is a growing team and, accordingly, we would like the candidate to take an active part in that
• Prepared to work on a small number of mandates that don’t fit a traditional private funds role – this will include joint venture agreements and occasionally advice on M&A transactions in the funds space although that type of work is always done with the support of our corporate team
• A team player who can work with different teams and lawyers across the firm; and
• Keen to work in a growing international firm that is making headlines

Interested candidates please apply.