2024-2025 Global AI Trends Guide
James Alder
Partner Corporate & Finance
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Legal 500James Alder has an outstanding grasp of the law
James advises on a broad spectrum of investment fund matters, working with clients including international investment funds, sovereign wealth funds, investment banks and asset managers.
James acts for issuers and banks on the listing of investment companies on the London Stock Exchange and in relation to secondary issues by London listed investment funds.
James also advises sponsors and managers on the structuring, launch, regulation and marketing of a range of onshore and offshore vehicles including private funds, consortium and club ventures. He also works with institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds on the terms of investments in a wide variety of funds and strategic joint ventures.
James has previously spent time on secondment to Deutsche Bank Asset and Wealth Management and UBS Investment Bank.
Legal 500Counsel James Alder is recommended for fund transactions across a range of asset classes, including energy, real estate and emerging markets
Representative experience
Acting for BH Macro on its £1bn combination with BH Global in 2022 and the stablishment of a £1bn placing programme capital raise in 2023
Acting for Riverstone Energy on its £750m initial public offering in 2013 and Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income on its US$100m IPO in 2019
Acting for 3i Infrastructure on capital raisings of over £700m since 2015
Acting for Investec in relation to the £5bn merger between Alliance Trust and Witan Investment Trust to create a new FTSE 100 investment company
Acting for M&G Real Estate in relation to a number of indirect real estate transactions, including the establishment and reorganisation of related joint ventures, management and holding structures
Acting for British Land in relation to its substantial real estate joint ventures with Royal London and Norges Bank
Acting for investment banks including J.P. Morgan Cazenove, Numis Securities, Jefferies International, Liberum Capital, Goldman Sachs, Peel Hunt and Stifel Nicolaus on bookrunning mandates
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- B.A., History, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2007