Abigail B. Reeves

Abigail Reeves focuses her practice on advising financial institutions, including asset managers, financial sponsors, banks and insurance companies, on their regulatory obligations, internal governance and compliance arrangements. She also has experience working for fund managers and investors on the formulation, structuring and marketing of investment funds.

Ms. Reeves’s relevant experience includes:

• Convera in connection with its US$910 million acquisition of Western Union Business Solutions;
• Arrow Global Group PLC in the establishment of its new fund management business and the successful launch of its new pan-European nonperforming loan fund, Arrow Credit Opportunities SCSp, with initial commitments of €838 million;
• Crosstree Real Estate Partners LLP in the formation of the £350 million Crosstree Real Estate Special Situations Fund II LP. Crosstree Real Estate Partners is a subsidiary of Waypoint GP Limited (Switzerland), an investment fund created by the Bertarelli family;
• Citi Private Advisory, LLC in the formation of the European Tech Growth Offshore Feeder Fund, Ltd. and related platform arrangements to invest in a European Growth Fund;
• PayPal, Inc. in its US$400 million acquisition of Hyperwallet Systems Inc.;
• Castik Capital S.á.r.l. in the sale of its stake in Waterlogic plc (Ireland) to its new EPIC I-b single asset fund;
• Zuber and Mohsin Issa, owners of EG Group, and TDR Capital LLP in their acquisition of a majority stake in ASDA Group Limited from Walmart Inc.;
• funds advised by Permira Advisers in its US$1.8 billion acquisition of Duff & Phelps Corporation from The Carlyle Group Inc.;
• the US$4.2 billion sale of Duff & Phelps, LLC to a consortium led by funds managed by Stone Point Capital LLC and Further Global Capital Management, L.P.;
• Raymond James Financial, Inc. in its US$387 million acquisition of Charles Stanley Group PLC;
• Telegram Group Inc. in its US$1.7 billion offering of investment contracts;
• Neuberger Berman Group LLC in the merger of its Dyal Capital Partners division and Owl Rock Capital Group with Altimar Acquisition Corporation to form Blue Owl Capital Inc. at an enterprise value of US$12.5 billion. As a result of the merger, Blue Owl became a publicly traded company with an Up-C structure;
• Silver Lake in its acquisition of a majority stake in Groupe Meilleurtaux from West Street Capital Partners (a fund managed by the Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division);
• acting for a large sovereign wealth fund, including advising on a number of private fund investments, such as direct fund investments, co-investments and GP-led secondaries;
• advising a subsidiary of a multinational banking conglomerate in connection with the preparation and implementation of specific policies and procedures for compliance with U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and EU ESG rules (including the Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation); and
• advising a multinational financial services company in connection with a review of compliance policies and procedures and escalation routes, as well as on a report on identified deficiencies and recommendations.

Ms. Reeves spent time on secondment at the Bank of England, where she worked within its Enforcement and Litigation Division.