Vanessa is a corporate senior associate in our Private Equity & Financial Sponsors Group who trained at Travers Smith.
Vanessa focuses on pan-European and international private equity and alternative asset management work. She has experience advising institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior 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 also specialises in advising alternative asset managers at their establishment and on succession planning and a range of liquidity solutions, including fund-to-fund transfers and the sale of asset management platforms.
In 2021/22 Vanessa undertook 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 at platform and asset level) across Bridgepoint's three fund strategies, their friend & family fund structures and their €7bn fundraise for Bridgepoint's flagship fund Bridgepoint Europe VII.
Vanessa also does pro bono work for Access Your Right to Care, Justice and Ukrainian Action.