Investment Management

The Maples Group provides specialist legal advice to investment managers in establishing and operating investment management entities and ensuring they meet appropriate ongoing regulatory requirements.  

Our team specialises in:

• The full range of UCITS and AIFs in all legal forms, whether mutual funds, hedge funds, real estate funds, private equity funds, ETFs, loan funds or managed account platform structuring
• The structuring and formation of these vehicles as single funds, master-feeders, parallel funds and large-scale umbrellas or platforms 
• Establishing related subsidiary or SPV vehicles
• Advising on the ongoing operation of such vehicles, including differing liquidity models, leverage, performance fees, carried interest and all permitted regulatory features
• Establishing and advising UCITS management companies, AIFMs and MiFID firms 
• Obtaining the relevant permissions to create vehicles with multiple licences (known as “super management companies”) and varying permissions for existing vehicles
• Advising on ancillary legislation in the areas of MiFID, EMIR, SFTR, PRIIPs and all other major laws or regulations in the investment management sector
• Establishing Cayman Islands based investment management vehicles on a stand-alone basis or on a hosted platform.