Emma Garnham Senior Associate
(New Zealand Qualified)

Senior Associate (New Zealand Qualified)
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Emma advises clients on the structuring and operation of onshore and offshore open-ended funds, both regulated and unregulated, and on all legal aspects of asset management, including sustainability and ESG requirements.

Her clients include fund operators, asset managers and private portfolio managers of investment funds. Advice is wide ranging and incorporates all aspects of a fund’s life cycle, investor negotiations, cross-border arrangements, investment management agreements, platform and distribution arrangements.

Emma also advises clients in relation to ongoing regulatory and compliance matters, including the application of the UCITS Directive, AIFMD, MiFID II, and ESG-related regulations including SFDR, the Taxonomy Regulation, and UK SDR and TCFD.

Emma is an active participant in Investment Association initiatives and the firm’s ESG working group. Emma has previously spent time on secondment at a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm.

Expertise

Recent work

Fulcrum Asset Management

Advising Fulcrum Asset Management LLP, and its independent authorised corporate director Waystone Management (UK) Limited, on the launch of an open-ended private market focussed fund under the Long-Term Asset Fund (LTAF) regime.

Goldman Sachs International

Advising Goldman Sachs International on multiple transactions.

J O Hambro Capital Management Group

Advising J O Hambro Capital Management Group on the launch of its Regnan Sustainable Water and Waste fund, the second of the group’s UK ESG integrated funds.

FundRock Partners and Octopus

Advising FundRock Partners and Octopus on the launch of FP Octopus UK Future Generations Fund, a fund operated by FundRock Partners and managed by Octopus Investments with a sustainable investment mandate.

Quilter

Advising Quilter Investors on the launch of the Quilter Investors Timber Equity Fund which aims to achieve capital growth by investing in companies which support sustainable forestry and timber practices.

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What people are saying

"The support from Emma Garnham was excellent – very supportive and provided timely responses to all queries while [her] knowledge of legal and regulatory matters was first class."

The UK Legal 500 2023