Public Funds

Launch and maintenance of UCITS and AIFs

Authorised funds across the UK, Ireland, Luxembourg and Australia: constitutional documents, service provider agreements and prospectuses at launch. Maintenance and oversight issues including the pricing errors, breaches and investor complaints.

Areas we cover

Public Funds

  • Instruments of incorporation
  • Trust deeds
  • Depositary agreements
  • Prospectus and Supplements

UCITS, AIFs, ETFs and investment trusts: the documents that constitute the fund, the agreements with the providers that run it.

Wealth Management

  • Client agreements
  • Model portfolio service agreements
  • Custody agreements
  • Side letters

Fund and client-facing work for wealth managers: establishment and operating documents, the client agreements behind each service, and due diligence on portfolio investments.

Product Structuring

  • Prospectuses
  • KIIDs and KIDs
  • Application forms
  • Shareholder circulars

Product design against the target investor and the markets you will sell into, then the authorisation forms the chosen jurisdiction requires. Documentation to implement changes to a live fund.

Distribution (Wholesale)

  • Distribution agreements
  • Platform agreements
  • Placement agent agreements
  • Investor presentations

Funds sold through platforms, private banks and other wholesale channels, with the pitch materials and disclaimers checked against the marketing rules that apply to them.

Distribution (Institutional)

  • Investment management agreements
  • Investment advisory agreements
  • Model portfolio arrangements

Managing assets on a segregated account basis or as manager of a third party fund: performance fees, investment guidelines, exclusivity and MFN terms, from either side of the table.

Matters we have run

First UCITS fund approved and launched less than two months after FCA submission

Managed Portfolio Manager

1,001-5,000Global team size
1In-house legal team

Compliance, operations and business teams working to one UCITS launch

Brief

UCITS launch end to end: ACD appointment, fund documents, IMAs, sub-IMAs and the FCA application

Outcome

UCITS fund documents built for reuse on future fund launches

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Recognition

  1. 2026
  2. 2025
    • Heroes Role Model ListsFeatured in the Executive Role Model List
  3. 2023
  4. 2022
    • Women in Investment AwardsNominated for Role Model of the YearNominated for Mentor of the Year
  5. 2021
  6. 2019
  7. 2018
  8. 2017
  9. 2016
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