Michael Newell, a leading fund formation partner, recently joined our firm in London. Mike’s arrival strengthens our growing transatlantic funds group, which includes fund formation partners supported by and supporting our market-leading U.S. and UK fund finance, regulatory and tax teams.
Mike, who joined us with his team from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was a partner, focuses primarily on the formation of real asset funds (including listed and mutual funds), credit funds and hedge funds and technology and emerging market-focused private equity funds. He has extensive experience advising the asset management industry on corporate, regulatory and investment fund-related matters and helps both household names and innovative start-ups set up new businesses and products in both the mainstream and alternative sectors. Mike is a member of INREV’s Public Affairs Committee and was a member of the FSA’s legal expert group and the technical committees of a number of industry bodies dealing with the implementation of the AIFM Directive.
