Your client is considering a wind-down. There may be a better option.
Fund lawyers, depositaries, administrators, compliance consultants and auditors are usually the first to see a fund reach the end of its useful life — often a year or more before the owner acts on it. Where a liquidation is being contemplated, a sale or transfer of management frequently preserves more value, closes more cleanly, and ends better for the investors.
We acquire and broker EU and EEA AIFMD-regulated funds and management companies between €10 million and €1 billion in assets under management. There is no cost to your client, and no cost to you.
What an introduction means for you
You remain the advisor of record
We do not displace incumbent counsel, administrators or depositaries. We work alongside the advisors already in place and, where the structure survives the transaction, we would ordinarily expect existing service providers to continue.
No cost to your client
No retainer, no success fee, no commission payable by the seller. Our compensation is borne exclusively by the acquiring counterparty.
You control how much is disclosed
An introduction can be made without naming the fund. We will not contact your client directly unless you ask us to.
You are told what your client authorises, and nothing else
We report back to you only within the limits your client sets. No side channel, no going around you.
A defined answer, quickly
Within five working days of an introduction we will tell you whether the structure is within remit and what an indicative range looks like. If it is not for us, we say so plainly.
When to think of us
- 1A client is weighing a voluntary liquidation.
- 2Fixed regulatory, audit, depositary and custody costs have overtaken fee income.
- 3A founder is approaching retirement without a succession plan.
- 4A fund has stopped raising and the manager is quietly disengaging.
- 5A ManCo holds a licence and a track record it no longer fully uses.
- 6A group is rationalising and one vehicle no longer fits the strategy.
On referral arrangements
Many advisors introduce clients to us without any arrangement at all, simply because a sale serves the client better than a wind-down. Where a referral arrangement is appropriate and permitted under the rules of your profession and your jurisdiction, we are glad to discuss one. It is documented in writing and disclosed to your client before any introduction proceeds. We will not enter into an undisclosed arrangement.