Tom is a partner in the asset management group and head of the firm’s funds practice in EMEA. He is a specialist in the international structuring, marketing and operation of private funds and private fund managers across a broad range of strategies and jurisdictions. He is also highly experienced in the structuring of sponsor-to-sponsor M&A, joint ventures, structured secondaries, separate managed accounts and co-investments.
Tom is consistently recognised as a leading investment management lawyer by clients and peers, and in industry publications such as The Legal 500 and Chambers UK. Clients refer to Tom in the legal directories as “absolutely awesome,” “the best funds legal adviser in London,” and “at the forefront of funds lawyers in the UK.” His clients are further quoted in Chambers, where he is described as “extremely responsive,” “commercial” with “a good command of the details.” He has been identified by IFLR 1000 as a “highly regarded” and by PEI’s Private Fund Manager as one of the global private fund industry’s top 30 under 40.
Tom is a member of the legal and accounting committee of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), having previously served on the regulatory committees of the BVCA and Invest Europe. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Tom served as an investment funds partner at other global law firms in London and New York, and also as an in-house funds lawyer and Europe and Africa CCO at The Carlyle Group.
Experience
- Represented Partners Group as an anchor investor acting on behalf of its clients, alongside Brookfield Asset Management, in a new €550 million continuation fund raised by Lanza Capital (formerly known as Firmum Capital) focused on acquiring and operating car parks in Spain.
- Represented Blue Earth Capital AG, the specialist global impact investor, on its acquisition through its investment vehicles of partial interest in three funds across Africa and Asia from British International Investment (BII), the UK’s Development Finance Institution (DFI) and impact investor.
- Represented Limerston Capital, a UK mid-market private equity firm, on the final close of its second fund, Limerston Capital Partners II, with total commitments of £245 million, exceeding the size of its inaugural fund.
- Advised a UK-based asset manager on its investment in a leading profit with purpose environmental and social impact company headquartered in the UK
Tom's experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray includes advising:
- A global asset management firm on the sale of a European credit focused asset management business to another European-based asset manager
- A first time fund manager on the formation of a new UK-based growth manager and first fundraise
- A global real estate manager on the formation of various of its real estate funds, including closed- and open-ended funds focused on Europe and Asia and certain separate managed accounts
- An Asia-based first time fund manager on the structuring of their new firm and first time Greater China focused fundraise
- A global resources manager on the formation of its global renewables fund
- A European real estate asset management firm on the formation of their latest flagship fund
- A global diversified asset manager on multiple private equity fundraises, including with respect to US, Europe and Asia buyout, and growth and venture products
- A global asset management firm on the sale of a European credit focused asset management business to another European-based asset manager and related secondary process
- A number of private fund investors, including middle east sovereign investors and Canadian pension funds, on their commitments into numerous private funds, including keystone investments in the private equity, real estate and credit sectors, and separate managed account and coinvestment arrangements
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