Ms Alix Prentice > Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
100 Bishopsgate
LONDON
EC2N 4AG
England
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Position

Alix Prentice is a partner in Cadwalader’s Financial Services Group. She specializes in advising financial institutions and investors on the UK’s financial services regulatory regime. Alix has over 20 years of experience (some gained at the regulator) of advising on regulatory requirements and relationships with regulators across a range of industries and asset classes, including family offices and private investors, hedge and other alternative fund managers, private equity, banks, broker-dealers, custodians, distributors, issuers and cryptocurrency businesses. Alix has particular expertise in alternative investment funds and the documentation of investments into these vehicles. She also has significant experience of regulated mergers and acquisitions, often involving complex changes of control and due diligence exercises.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP acts for sponsors and asset managers on the structuring, formation and marketing of investment funds across the real estate, renewable energy, private equity, social infrastructure and credit asset classes. Practice head Michael Newell is a key name for establishing and reorganising onshore and offshore collective investment vehicles. Newell is supported by Jack Kelly, who was promoted to special counsel in January 2023. The practice was bolstered in December 2022 by the arrival of Alix Prentice from King & Wood Mallesons, and Sukhvir Basran from Hogan Lovells International LLP.