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Nick Williams

Partner

Email

nick.williams@aoshearman.com

Phone

+44 20 3088 2739

Offices

London

V-CARD
Nick advises a range of leading fund managers and institutional investors on the structuring, offering and management of funds, joint ventures and managed accounts.

This includes all forms of co-investment structures, continuation funds and secondary transactions. He also advises fund managers on their regulatory and commercial arrangements including carried interest and team co-investment arrangements and team and manager acquisitions. He covers the full range of asset classes and has particular focus on real estate (core, value-add and opportunistic), private credit (direct lending and special situations), infrastructure, energy and private equity.

Nick is ranked as a leading individual in Legal 500 and clients are quoted as recognising that Nick is ‘fast off the mark, always calm, pleasant, and on top of the detail’ (Legal 500, Investment Funds).

Experience

Representative matters

Hines on a wide range of real estate fund establishment and joint venture transactions, including Hines European Value Fund 1, which achieved a total fund size of over EUR720m and Hines European Value Fund 2, which secured EUR637m of investor commitments at its first closing. Experience also includes advising on the Hines European Core Fund, a pan-European open-ended fund.

Cain International on its Real Estate Opportunity Fund 1. 

IFC Asset Management on the establishment of its USD1.2bn global infrastructure fund and its USD1bn Africa, Latin America and Caribbean private equity fund. 

Meyer Bergman and Value Retail on the establishment of a joint venture real estate platform with APG and Hammerson to invest in European outlet shopping destinations and on their subsequent disposal of their interests to APG and Hammerson.

 

Published Work

  • Contributing author to Whittaker Machell QC (2021) “The law of Limited Liability Partnerships”, 5th edition, London, Bloomsbury
Recognition
“Nick Williams is unflappable and has been a key factor in getting a number of investor negotiations over the line.”
Legal 500, 2023: Real Estate Funds
“Nick Williams works with major institutional managers on capital raisings and major joint ventures.
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Legal 500, 2021: Investment Funds

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as solicitor, England and Wales, 1995

Academic

LLB (Hons), University of Bristol, 1992