“In-house” legal support for fund managers – bespoke and on-demand

Serving clients globally, including in London, New York and Geneva

Do you want a cost-effective solution to outsourcing and/or enhancing your in-house legal function?

Do you have insufficient resources to keep transactions moving forward in a timely manner?

Do you want greater flexibility in scaling up and down your legal function?

Do you want to get better value out of your specialist legal advisors?

If so, read on...

As your external “in-house” counsel, AH Advisors provides flexible legal, transactional and strategic support to fund managers. We afford you the flexibility of having a lawyer on-demand that really understands your business without the expense and risks of employing an in-house lawyer. Use us as your go-to legal adviser or augment your own legal team with our expertise.  More

Bridging legal and business expertise, we enable in-house legal teams and/or senior operational executives to advance their commercial priorities and implement best practices. We work efficiently to understand our clients’ objectives, anticipate risks and provide tangible solutions.

Our Services

Contract review

We ease the burden by reviewing and/or negotiating a wide range of investment fund and manager documents, including:

  • investment management agreements
  • investor-facing documents such as marketing materials and side letters
  • distribution agreements between funds and/or managers and third parties
  • research agreements
  • corporate documentation such as shareholder agreements and convertible loan agreements
  • general commercial contracts

Fund structuring

We help you to launch new products and restructure existing ones:

  • project management and transactional support
  • input into key terms such as liquidity and fee structures
  • review offering documentation

Governance

We support you with your governance needs:

  • provide non-executive directorship services for funds and managers
  • identify, mitigate and disclose against conflicts of interest
  • engage and coordinate with your fund directors

Operations

We help you to mitigate operational risks:

  • assess the impact of new regulations and formulate an action plan
  • develop systems to monitor ongoing obligations to investors, distributors and trading counterparties
  • navigate local marketing rules
  • prepare and/or review internal policies

Coordination with third parties

 

We free up your time and save you money by coordinating with, and asking the right questions of, your specialist external legal counsel and other professional advisers. 

Values

It goes without saying that professionalism, integrity, excellence and agility are among the core values that we pride ourselves in. At AH Advisors, our clients also value the following qualities in our interactions:

providing calm, thoughtful, logical and persuasive arguments

listening, appreciating different points of view and forging solutions

being curious: always striving to learn, grow and improve our service

finding the right balance between pragmatism and control

Testimonials

Contact

Andy Heyworth on Linkedin

Based in Geneva with global clients, including in London, New York and Geneva