Raquel A. Gordon

Associate

Areas of Focus

Raquel A. Gordon

Associate

raquel.gordon@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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  • 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.*
  • Represented a British private investment company in relation to its acquisition and integration of a credit business.*
  • Represented a British multinational private equity and venture capital company on the establishment of a co-investment fund-of-one, established to invest alongside its infrastructure arm.*
  • Represented a private equity and infrastructure fund manager in relation to the establishment of its UK charging infrastructure fund (with the UK government as a cornerstone investor) and in respect of ongoing matters relating to its existing funds, including clean energy and infrastructure funds.*
  • Represented a North American real estate investment firm in connection with the establishment of its UK secured lending fund.*
  • Represented a debt fund manager on the establishment of its £928 million real estate debt fund.*
  • Represented a private equity investment firm on the establishment of its €1.5 billion special situations fund.*
  • Represented a German real estate fund manager on the establishment of its open-ended residential fund, a core pan-European residential property assets fund targeting commitments of €1 billion.*
  • Represented a German real estate fund manager on the establishment of a logistics fund to acquire a portfolio of logistics assets.*
  • Representing clients on the review of carried interest scheme documentation from the perspective of participating executives.*

*Matters handled prior to joining Akin Gump

Education
  • L.P.C., BPP University Law School, England, 2017

  • B.A., University of Oxford, 2016

Bar Admissions
  • Solicitor, England and Wales

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