AH Advisors – In-house legal on-demand

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

Serving clients in London, New York and Geneva

Do you want greater flexibility in managing your legal budget?

Are you getting the best value out of your specialist legal advisors?

Are you effectively monitoring your obligations to your investors and distributors?

Have you identified, disclosed and mitigated your conflicts of interest?

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

These are just some of the areas we can help you with.

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 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.

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.

Andrew Heyworth, Founder

Andy is a qualified solicitor, regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK.

Andy has 14 years of experience in the funds industry. Most recently, he spent 10 years with a global alternative investment fund manager, during which time he was Fund General Counsel, director of a Luxembourg-based UCITS fund and responsible for the Geneva office and operations.

Andy’s sound legal judgement and deep understanding of the commercial challenges faced by alternative asset managers make him a strategic partner to senior management.

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

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 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
• reflect on current ESG trends and the practical steps that managers can take

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.

Testimonials

Garda Capital Partners is a global alternative investment manager with a long-established presence in Switzerland but one that recently has grown in size and complexity. We needed a legal resource that understood the issues and challenges of our industry and our business. AH Advisors was a perfect solution for us. Andy has an ideal combination of technical legal expertise, pragmatic in house experience and an easy to work with personality. AH Advisors has provided Garda with a cost-effective legal resource that can also serve as a valuable bridge between our global headquarters and our Swiss office, law firms and regulators.

Andy supported us in improving the existing system to monitor side letter obligations, helping to ensure continued compliance as the business grows. His experience was also invaluable in negotiating a number of agreements with investors. Although Andy was not onsite, we regard him as one of the team and AH Advisors' flexible approach means we are able to manage our legal costs with greater accuracy.

Andy provides a very high calibre of legal advice and a fantastic service. He is a stellar addition to any legal team; immediately increasing its capacity and greatly deepening its legal and commercial experience and expertise. Andy’s excellent commercial and legal knowledge in the asset management space means that he is a real legal solutions provider.

Contact

Andy Heyworth on Linkedin