Vanessa trained at Travers Smith and is a corporate associate in our Private Equity and Financial Sponsors Group.
Vanessa focuses on pan-European and international private equity and alternative asset management work. She has experience advising institutional investors, management teams, founders and private equity portfolio companies across a wide variety of corporate matters including leveraged buy-outs, bolt-on acquisitions, exits, restructuring and corporate governance. Vanessa has also advised alternative asset managers on both fund-to-fund transfers and the sale of asset management platforms.
Vanessa recently completed a year long secondment to long-standing firm client Bridgepoint Group plc where she split her time in their legal team advising on their portfolio transactions (both platform and asset level) across Bridgepoint's three fund strategies, friends & family structures and their €7bn fundraise for their flagship fund Bridgepoint Europe VII.
Vanessa also does pro bono work for Access Your Right to Care and Justice and attends the Legal Advice Centre clinic.