This is another accolade in a recent string of awards presented to the Simmons & Simmons asset management and investment funds team. In recent weeks, the firm has also been awarded AsianInvestor Best Law Firm for Asset Management 2016, Best Regulatory Practice at the Hedge Fund Journal Awards 2016 and Best Onshore Law Firm at the HFM European Services Awards 2016.
Commenting on these recent wins Richard Perry, partner and head of financial services, said: "These awards serve as recognition of the firm’s focus on developing our expertise internationally across the whole asset management sector – including across all hedge funds, private funds, retail funds and institutional managers."
Colin Leaver, partner and head of the asset management and investment funds sector, added: "We are delighted that the firm’s strength in depth across a range of specialisations has been recognised. This is a particularly pleasing award to win as it is based on the publications own research in the market."
The firm’s reputation as a market-leader in the asset management and investments funds sector is bolstered further by the fact that at the end of March the firm was advising over half of the largest institutional managers globally, over three-quarters of the largest UK hedge fund managers, over one-half of the largest US hedge fund managers and over one-third of the largest Asian hedge fund managers.
Notes to editors:
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4. Simmons & Simmons has a highly specialised international asset management and investment funds team. We have experts in fund formation, financial services regulation, trading documentation (including prime brokerage and derivatives documentation), corporate structuring and transactions, litigation, taxation, ICT and employment regulation. We have an in-depth understanding of the asset management industry. We have recently been named ‘Asset Management Team of the Year’ at the Financial News Legal Awards 2016, ‘Best Regulatory Practice’ at the Hedge Fund Journal Awards 2016 and ‘Best Onshore Law Firm’ at the HFM Awards 2016.