Sarah Burnside > Eversheds Sutherland > Edinburgh, United Kingdom > Lawyer Profile
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EH3 8BP
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Sarah Burnside
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Sarah is a Principal Associate in the financial institutions group and leads the financial services team in Edinburgh.
Sarah specialises in investment funds and advises clients within the financial services sector including asset managers, depositaries, custodians, institutional investors, funds (investing in various asset classes including equity, real estate, debt as well as fund of funds) and fund administrators on fund launches, capital raisings and restructuring, relationships with service providers, investments and regulatory compliance.
Sarah advises on investment company launches, mergers, reorganisations and liquidations and equity security issues. She also advises on fund formation and investment structuring via various structures including, in particular, structuring through Scottish and English limited partnerships and unit trusts.
In addition to fund formation work, Sarah is experienced in advising institutional investors on their investments into private equity and venture capital funds established in numerous jurisdictions. Sarah also advises on and negotiates commercial contracts such as AIFM, portfolio management, investment advisory, depositary, custody, administration, introducer, co-investment, limited partnership, limited liability partnership and other asset management related contracts.
Sarah regularly provides regulatory advice, with a particular focus on AIFMD, MAR, MiFID II, PRIIPs, the Prospectus Regulation and application of the UK financial promotion regime to financial service clients.
Position
Principal Associate
Lawyer Rankings
London > Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP is a strong choice for listed clients requiring regulatory advice, and strengthened its position on this front with the March 2024 hire of Slaughter and May‘s Tim Fosh, a specialist in UK and EU regulations. Practice head Sarah Burnside combines a transactional practice that encompasses launches, s.110 restructurings and fund management arrangements with a focus on ESG.
London > Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
Variously praised for its ‘strong knowledge‘ and ‘commerciality and experience‘, Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP excels when working with open and closed-ended real estate funds. Recent months have seen the team work on various LTAF applications and several high-profile projects for asset managers. Richard Batchelor is skilled in the establishment, listing, and restructuring of onshore and offshore investment funds. Funds, asset managers, and institutional investors all regularly instruct Stefanie Sahla-Jones. Sarah Burnside has specialist knowledge of closed-ended funds and ESG regulation. Jamie Dunlop and Camilla Spielman are also both key members of the team.
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
The ‘highly responsive’ team at Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP handles a broad range of mandates concerning UCITS, AIFMD, MiFID and SFDR, in addition to advising on the application of the FCA’s Consumer Duty. Michaela Walker leads the practice and counts asset managers, securities services providers and banks among her key roster of clients, while ‘excellent partner’ Phil Spyropoulos advises on regulatory projects involving the implementation of the EU’s SFDR, CSRD and early adopters of SDR. Based in Edinburgh, Sarah Burnside focuses on ESG, AIFMD and MiFID II, and Tim Fosh joined the team from Slaughter and May in March 2024, boosting the firm’s expertise in fintech, and the regulation of crypto and digital assets.
London > Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
LTAF structures and ESG funds regulations, such as SFDR, are fuelling growing levels of funds activity for Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP. Sarah Burnside has specialist knowledge of closed-ended funds and ESG regulation. Richard Batchelor is experienced in the establishment and reconstruction of investment funds. Recent months have seen Stefanie Sahla-Jones lead on multiple high-profile fund launches.