Ian Meade
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Fund Formation
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Seeding Transactions
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Institutional Investors
- Private Equity Transactions
- Advises asset managers on structuring and establishing investment funds, negotiating managed account structures and regulatory issues.
- Represents asset managers with regard to structuring and implementing investment transactions.
Ian Meade advises asset managers, particularly hedge fund managers, on a broad range of issues relevant to their businesses. He is particularly experienced in structuring and establishing hedge funds and in the ongoing operations of those funds. He provides advice to asset managers on the negotiation of investments in funds and other products by institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies and a range of other institutional investors. Ian also advises clients on transactions involving asset management businesses and financial services regulatory matters.
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ian was a partner at a large London-based international law firm. He is a frequent writer and speaker on hedge funds and related topics at industry conferences internationally.
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
- Chambers UK, Investment Funds: Hedge Funds, 2016 to 2024.
- The Legal 500 UK, Leading Individual: Hedge Funds, 2022-2024, Hedge Funds, 2014-2022.
- Chambers Europe, Investment Funds: Hedge Funds, 2015 to 2022.
- Chambers Global, Investment Funds: Hedge Funds, 2017 to 2021.
- Who’s Who Legal, Private Funds – Formation, 2020.
- “Private Funds Rule Unveiled: A Look Ahead,” MFA Legal & Compliance London 2023, November 2023.