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Stephenson Harwood Offices
48 rue Cambon
75001 Paris
France
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Ngowari Adikibi
Work Department
Funds structuring
Position
Ngowari’s practice involves delivering innovative solutions for the structuring, creation, negotiation and marketing of different forms of funds investing predominantly in Europe and Africa (including French fund structures, Luxembourg vehicles, English, Scottish and Channel Islands limited partnerships, Mauritius funds and hybrid structures).
Ngowari also creates carried interest structures and regulated portfolio management entities for management teams. She advises fund managers on regulatory matters relating to their authorisation and their marketing, operation and management of funds. She equally assists management companies with the process and contractual framework for the distribution of fund interests. In addition, she advises private equity houses on international investments and divestments of portfolio assets in general, and secondary transfers of interests in portfolio funds.
Prior to joining Stephenson Harwood, Ngowari was a lawyer in the International Funds department of a leading global law firm in international funds.
Having previously obtained solid experience of complex and high-end cross-border M&A/ private equity transactions within the corporate/ private equity departments of several US law firms in London and Paris, Ngowari also gained significant emerging markets experience working in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, where she advised European investors regarding foreign investment in the Mercosur.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Private equity: Fund formation
(Next Generation Partners)The team at Stephenson Harwood is well-versed in advising domestic and foreign financial institutions on the structuring and creation of close-ended private investment funds. Working under the leadership of Julien Vandenbussche, who specialises in fund formation, the group is also home to the ‘commercial, responsive and thoughtful’ Ngowari Adikibi, who is dual-qualified in France and the UK and was promoted to the partnership in 2023.
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- Next Generation Partners France > Private equity: Fund formation
- Private equity: Fund formation France
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