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Fieldfisher is one of the few City firms which can offer a truly excellent service to asset managers across their whole range of investment funds and products. We offer practical and incisive strategic advice from experts who understand the asset management business inside out.

We are best known for our well renowned expertise in regulated investment funds, but we have a particular interest in imaginative bespoke fund and product structuring. We offer coordinated legal, regulatory and tax advice for all manner of funds: whether mainstream or alternative, open or closed ended. Our clients span the full spectrum of the industry – retail and institutional managers, hedge fund managers, private debt funds, family offices and private equity and real estate funds. Our lead partners focus on working on new developments and devising new business models. Notably this currently includes initiatives with our technology law colleagues in the Fintech space.

With over 70 lawyers focussed on the financial sector across our business, the team's additional capabilities include advising on financial services regulation; investment issues: debt, equities, real estate financing and derivatives trading documentation; technology and outsourcings; corporate transactions; pensions products and investments; and privacy, of particular relevance with complex changes with big data, cyber security and technology optimisation to be managed. 

For today's global environment, we maintain an excellent close network of similarly leading expert lawyers in other key fund domicile and investor jurisdictions, so we can provide a seamless and expert service for UK managers on their frequently international fund projects.

Our dedicated asset management team cuts across the traditional legal disciplines so that we have lawyers in each of the relevant areas who understand about asset management businesses. In all matters we deliver a partner led service – with partner visibility and responsiveness.