Raquel A. Gordon
Associate
raquel.gordon@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Private Funds Liquidity Solutions
- Seeding Transactions
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Investment Management
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Fund Formation
- Institutional Investors
Biography
Temporarily on a Full-Time Client Secondment
- Represents clients on private fundraisings across a range of sectors, including private equity, infrastructure, real estate, real estate debt and special situations.
- Advises on “club fund,” co-investment, separate account and joint venture transactions, with a particular focus on increasingly attractive asset classes such as logistics technology/infrastructure and healthcare facilities.
Raquel advises private equity funds, institutional investors and funds of funds. Her experience includes acting for fund managers on fund formation and ongoing regulatory and management issues.
Raquel spent time on secondment with a UK- and US-based investment fund manager.
Representative Work
- Represented an infrastructure fund manager on the establishment of its European infrastructure funds, a €1.22 billion European mid-market value-add infrastructure fund and European mid-market value-add infrastructure fund targeting €1.5 billion in commitments.
- Represented a German asset manager on end-of-life solutions in relation to its Pan-European Infrastructure Fund and on the restructuring of carried interest schemes for a number of its infrastructure funds.
- Represented a UK- and US-based investment fund manager in connection with the formation of its sustainable fund targeting $1 billion in commitments, the establishment and operation of its long-term equity fund and ongoing advice on its climate solutions funds.
- Represented an Australian asset manager on the establishment and operation of an open-ended global infrastructure fund and the related co-investment vehicles and its European real estate and logistics assets funds.
- Represented a European real estate debt investment manager in connection with the formation and operation of various real estate debt strategies.
EducationL.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2017
B.A., University of Oxford, 2016
L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2017
B.A., University of Oxford, 2016
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales