Tiana Rambatomanga > Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Offices
21, boulevard Malesherbes
75008 PARIS
France
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Tiana Rambatomanga
Work Department
Asset Management
Position
Tiana Rambatomanga is a partner in the Asset Management Department in Paris. Tiana’s practice covers all segments relating to private funds, with a particular focus on private equity, infrastructure, renewable energies, debt and real estate funds. She specializes in advising investment managers on legal, regulatory and commercial matters relevant to the creation and fundraisings of private funds and investment platforms.
Tiana’s experience covers a broad range of products and strategies, from large private funds to smaller market players and bespoke products in particular regarding « retailization » of private markets.
Ms. Rambatomanga has extensive experience in particular concerning the formation of general and sector-based French, Luxemburg and pan-European it regulated and unregulated funds, including LBO funds, mezzanine funds, venture capital funds, funds of funds, secondary funds, master/feeder structures. She regularly acts for LPs in relation to their funds’ investments and advises on secondary transactions.
Ms. Rambatomanga also advises portfolio managers and institutional investors throughout their business development, including co-investments, joint-venture, club-deals, spin-offs, set-up of French approved management companies and investment advisers.
Ms. Rambatomanga is a member of Level 20, a European association that promotes the presence of women in the private equity industry and is a member of the legal committee of France Invest.
She regularly lectures on investment funds and GP/LPs relationships in France and the UK (Master ESCP Paris, MBA Oxford University) and has been involved in student mentoring programs to promote equal opportunities.
In 2022, Ms. Rambatomanga lectured a virtual Masterclass “Finance Sociale et Durable/Sustainable Finance” session at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers on the ESG Revolution: Regulatory framework and key benefits for Private funds.
Ms. Rambatomanga also authored an article in CF – Le Courrier Financier on the FCPR Evergreen funds dedicated to unit-like insurance policies, as she’s the first practitioner on the French market to have structured this type of new private equity products.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Private equity: Fund formation
(Leading individuals)–
The team at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is ‘competent, pragmatic and close to its clients’. Its core areas of expertise including advising on the formation of and fundraising for general and sector-based small, mid, and large-cap funds, reorganisations, as well as the provision of advice on secondary transactions and regulatory matters. The team is co-directed by Nathalie Duguay
, who is singled out for her ‘exhaustive knowledge of the issues faced by management companies’. The ‘technically excellent’ Tiana Rambatomanga co-leads alongside her and frequently advises LPs on secondary transactions.