Gugu has experience in the structuring of a wide range of investment funds including private equity funds, healthcare funds and infrastructure funds. Gugu has on-the-ground experience advising clients on the establishment of Africa-focussed and emerging markets funds, as well as investor participation in such funds, having qualified and practiced in South Africa for a number of years.
Gugu has leveraged her experience in the Africa and emerging markets space and now regularly advises asset management and investment fund clients ranging from global asset managers and leading institutional investors in relation to the deployment of capital in investment funds.
Gugu completed a client secondment at a UK pension scheme where she provided legal support to the private equity deal team in relation to investments in private equity funds.
Relevant experience includes advising:
- A UK public institution in relation to the restructuring of a fund established to invest in technological and public sector innovation.
- A leading global institutional investor in respect of its investments in various US and European domiciled investment funds.
- A global bank on the offering of a third party private equity growth expansion fund to its private bank clients.
- A UK-headquartered international investment firm in relation to its capital raising process for its Middle East domiciled venture capital fund, which included negotiations with high-net worth individuals and sovereign wealth funds.
- A UK pension scheme in relation to its investment in a European growth equity fund.
- A UK pension scheme in relation to its existing portfolio of private equity interests (ongoing).
- A UK pension scheme in relation to various investments in US and European funds across various asset classes.
- A UK pension scheme in relation to the secondary sale of fund interests in various US and European funds on the secondary market.
- Various fund managers on marketing restrictions and regulatory advice across various jurisdictions.
