Nick Williams
Partner
London
Nick Williams
Partner
London
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Nick is a partner in the Funds & Asset Management Group. He represents asset managers and institutional investors on a broad range of investment structures, including the structuring, establishing and management of private and public investment funds, joint ventures and funds of one. He also advises on secondary disposals of fund interests and other equity syndications, co-investments, carried interest arrangements, M&A and spin-outs of asset managers and fund financings.
He covers the full range of asset classes and has particular focus on real estate, infrastructure, energy, private equity and debt (whether direct lending or special situations).
Nick also advises on all the national and international regulatory issues affecting asset managers and their investment structures, including their internal compliance arrangements and responses to external issues, such as Brexit and Covid-19.
Clients recognises Nick is ‘fast off the mark, always calm, pleasant, and on top of the detail’ (Legal 500, Investment Funds).
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Related articles
Publications: 20 October 2022
Great Fund Insights: The European long-term investment fund (ELTIF) Review
A further step towards the retailisation of alternative investment funds in Europe.
Publications: 21 June 2021
Cross-border fund distribution package: ESMAs final guidance on funds marketing communications
Publications: 31 March 2020
Covid-19 coronavirus: NAV issues in open-ended real estate funds
Experience highlights
Advising 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.
Advising Cain International on its Real Estate Opportunity Fund 1.
Advising IFC Asset Management on the establishment of its USD1.2bn global infrastructure fund and its USD1bn Africa, Latin America and Caribbean private equity fund.
Advising 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.
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