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Emily Simmons
Work Department
Investment Funds
Career
Emily is a managing associate in Linklaters investment funds practice, with a strong focus on infrastructure and credit funds with clients including Macquarie Asset Management, QIC and Qualitas Energy. Recently, Emily has worked closely with a number of key clients developing their private credit and infrastructure platforms to expand and diversify their offerings, including fund financing, open-ended direct lending strategies and energy transition funds, each across a global investor base. As well as securing institutional capital, Emily has supported her clients in strategic initiatives to access private wealth channels. She also has experience acting for sovereign wealth funds and large pension funds in North America, as well as institutional investors in relation to their investment activity across asset classes.
Emily spent a year at Macquarie in their private credit legal team (2021-2022), focused on fund formation and new product launches. She has also completed secondments at Goldman Sachs and the Linklaters Dubai office.
Emily passionately believes in a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive workplace. She is actively involved in the Linklaters mentorship schemes and initiatives supporting social mobility in the workplace.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
(Leading associates)Linklaters LLP‘s investment funds team is highly regarded for its private credit activity and strong representation of sponsors and investors. The practice continues to draw on its international capabilities to advise on global mandates and multijurisdictional transactions, handling the formation, taxation, and regulation of investment funds spanning the full range of asset classes. Matthew Keogh receives many plaudits for his work covering the retailisation of private funds. Rahul Manvatkar has helped to develop the firm’s reputation in the ESG sphere, providing key advice concerning SFDR and other fund-impacting regulations. Clare Baker oversees the firm’s investor and secondaries practice, helping cornerstone investors committing billions of dollars to numerous funds. Other key figures include Gareth Crimp, who covers the full spectrum of private equity, private credit, and real estate funds; Ben Jennings, a known name for co-investments and access funds; and Emily Simmons, who regularly engages with transactions and fundraisings in the European infrastructure debt market.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading associates London > Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Private funds London > Investment fund formation and management
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets: mid-large cap
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Finance > Securitisation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > High yield
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Finance > Trade finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport