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Marwan Al-turki
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Work Department
Investment funds and private equity.
Position
A leading UK private investment fund formation lawyer; acts as co-chair of the firm’s European private equity funds group. He focuses his practice on structuring multi-jurisdictional private equity funds for offering to an international institutional investor base. He advises such funds on matters relating to investments and realisation programs. He also advises investment managers and other financial institutions on investment management mergers and acquisitions transactions, internal restructurings and financial services regulatory issues.
Career
Trained Slaughter and May; qualified 1987; London office 1985-89; Mercury Asset Management, London 1989-91; Mayer, Brown & Platt, London 1992-96; Baker & McKenzie, London 1996-2003; Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 2003 to date. Mr Al-Turki’s recent representations include: Prosperity Capital Management on the establishment of Prosperity Quest II, a $150m buyout fund investing in Russia/CIS. The Carlyle Group in raising its first Middle East and North Africa fund at £500m; AAC Capital Partners in the secondary sale of a large portfolio of private equity investments by ABN AMRO to a consortium led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management; the management team of ABN AMRO Capital in the sale of ABN AMRO Capital to the management team; Akina Ltd in its formation of Euro Choice IV, a European mid-market buyout fund of funds; Prosperity Capital Management in relation to New Russia Generation Ltd, a private equity fund investing in the Russian power sector; The Carlyle Group in the formation of Carlyle Europe Partners III, a European buyout fund. Publications of note include: ‘Structuring and Marketing a Pan-European Private Equity Fund’, ‘European Venture Capital Journal’ (March 2001); ‘Are the Terms of the US and European Private Equity Funds Converging’, with Michael P Harrell, ‘Private Equity International’ (2003); ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to the FSA Regulation of Designated Investment Business’, City & Financial Publishing (2002); and ‘A Practitioner’s Guide to the FSA Regulation of Investment Banking’, City & Financial Publishing (2002).
Languages
Arabic, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese.
Member
Law Society of England and Wales.
Education
Stowe School, Buckingham; Magdalen College, Oxford University (1983 BA; 1992 MA); College of Law, Guildford (1985 Law Society Finals).
