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Private Capital

fluid growth. dynamic advice.

our private capital work

Fladgate’s DNA lies at the heart of the world of private capital. We have worked with hundreds of Family Offices, Funds, Private Banks, Alternative Lenders and Privately funded businesses at all stages of their respective lifecycles. Our sector strengths reflect this focus with deep experience in the sectors of special interest to Private Capital including real estate, technology and financial services. We also have a very strong and fast expanding Private Client team who understand the needs of UHNWIs, families and their advisors.

Our clients in this world generally don’t have large in-house resources and so rely on us heavily to guide them through their fast moving and complex challenges. We have shaped our highly differentiated approach for this market around three key deliverables:

“Our clients in the world of private capital are characterised by seeking fluid and frictionless growth. Our dynamic, pace-based approach to working with them is a proven* advantage.”

*A survey of over 300 of our clients showed that Fladgate scores up to 20% higher than other firms that they use when it comes to delivering a personal, agile, clever and enterprising service.

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1. A model for teamwork

Partners at Fladgate operate in integrated and highly collaborative teams shaped around each client’s needs and flexing as required. Essential for moving at pace.

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2. A differentiated service

Fladgate has developed a service promise that has been developed using feedback from a wide number of our clients and supported via training across the firm. The focus is on delivering a highly personal, very agile and enterprising attitude.

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3. Specialist areas of expertise

The firm has built strength and depth of expertise and experience across Funds, Finance, Venture Capital, Corporate M&A through to Private Client, Litigation, Regulatory and Real Estate – brought together in project teams aligned around clients’ projects to deliver seamless solutions.

The result is an ability to deliver dynamic and expert advice to clients at the key moments in their particular lifecycles. For examples of work across the world of private capital click on the area relevant to your business

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Private Funds:
VC & PE

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Privately funded Businesses

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Family offices & Trustees

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Private banks & Alternative Lenders

5%

The percent of Private capital of global financial markets, implying significant scope for expansion
*Lombard Odier

$22.6

trillion AUM

The estimated amount of private capital invested in private markets.

27%

The estimated percentage share that Family Offices have of Private Capital AUM

25,000

The number of VC deals in 2023

Specialist areas of expertise

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Private Funds (VC & PE)

We offer a full range of legal services from a fund’s inception right through to its dissolution or disposal, including potential restructuring and consideration of exit strategies (such as AIM/full market listing, buyout, and portfolio sale). Our advice covers structuring, taxation, regulation, financing, marketing an equity raising, establishment, operation and winding-up as well as reorganisation, investor participation and secondary transactions.

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Privately funded Businesses

We work for many of the leading and fast-moving trend initiator businesses that are often founder or management team owned and privately funded. We support them with legal services at all stages of their development from Employment, Tax, Disputes, Competition, Contracts, Data protection, Digital business and ecommerce, IP, Outsourcing, through to M&A, trade sales and going public.

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Private Banks & Alternative lenders

Our team has extensive international experience, working with clients including both domestic and foreign banks, investment firms and other companies. We understand the regulatory environment in which our clients operate and the diverse range of financing structures now available. We also act for new entrants to the financial services market, helping them establish new businesses and ensuring regulatory compliance. The team has extensive experience around regulatory investigations and similar challenges.

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Family offices & Trustees

We specialise in advising on all aspects of wealth structuring and wealth transfer. We support high net worth individuals and families, both in the UK and internationally, including when they are looking to create family offices. We work with family offices to create investment structures through which a family’s investments can be managed – for example a family investment company, an OEIC or a fund – including agreeing the role of the family office in the management, supervision and reporting arrangements around this vehicle.

Case Studies

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    European Equity Fund

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    London Wall: Delivering Peace Of Mind

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    The Range Of Work We Do For Private Banks

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    Playing To Win With TripleDot

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    Zapping To The Next Level

  • “Up to 50% of lending now comes from funds as opposed to the traditional banking sector, a great opportunity for our clients.”

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    Grant Gordon

    Partner

  • “There is this intergenerational transfer of wealth, and the new gen taking over are doing things slightly differently to what their parents and grandparents did.”

    Mythily katsaris

    Mythily Katsaris

    Partner

  • “There’s a trend we’re seeing where a lot of deals are being driven by non-traditional forms of capital. Traditionally most deals had some kind of bank finance behind them but now there’s a lot more private funds and family offices.”

    Howard watt

    Howard Watt

    Partner

  • “More than 1/3 of start up capital is being driven by family offices, in the US, the UK, India, France & Germany. This is really quite a large market to play with.”

    Jonathan riley

    Jonathan Riley

    Partner