Alison is a Partner in the Financial Institutions Group in Osborne Clarke’s London office.
She specialises in structuring funds and joint ventures, with a particular focus on real estate.
She has a broad range of experience working with institutions such as InfraRed, Nuveen Real Estate, Palmer Capital, Niam, Hollyport Capital, Laxfield Capital, CBRE Global Investors, Deutsche Bank, Aberdeen Standard Life and Savills Investment Management as well as smaller fund management businesses and family offices.
She has worked on the structuring and establishment of real estate and debt funds and the secondary sale and purchase of fund interests.
Work
Deutsche Bank
Advised on all aspects of the establishment of the European Property Fund, a Luxembourg domiciled closed-ended property fund, and also on the structuring and establishment of the follow-on Europe II Fund, an open-ended Luxembourg SICAV SIF.
Chenavari Investment managers
Advised on the structuring and establishment of the Chenavari Real Estate Fund II, a £350m fund structured as a Luxembourg partnership with a Luxembourg AIFM created to provide debt to European real estate.
Insights
Financial Services
The UK asset management industry has faced a number of geopolitical events over the last year or so: the Covid-19...
16/04/2021
Real estate
We explore the proposal from the Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF), for a new form of onshore fund, the...
30/03/2021
Real estate
The first insight in this series looked at the structure of and economic aspects of JVs; this article focuses on...
19/10/2020
Real estate
Joint ventures (JVs) in real estate have long been an attractive proposition due to the ability to combine assets and...
16/10/2020
Real estate
Warranty and indemnity (W&I) insurance policies – which provide cover for losses from breaches of these terms under sale agreements...
16/10/2020
Tax
The Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF) has proposed a new type of Professional Investors Fund (PIF) which aims to...
07/10/2020
Financial Services
Welcome to the latest edition of our Funds Focus. The onset of Covid-19 has had a significant impact of many...
04/08/2020
Financial Services
Welcome to the latest edition of our Funds Focus. Four months on from its publication, the ILPA Model LPA has...
13/02/2020
Financial Services
This Update covers a number of developments relating to sustainability: from MiFID II, to UCITS and AIFMD: ESMA consultations this...
14/03/2019
