Warren Allan

Warren Allan is a partner in the Private Funds Group. Warren advises European sponsors on raising investment funds, and on a broad range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of portfolios of fund interests and manager-led liquidity solutions. Warren also advises investors making direct and indirect co-investments.

Recent representative matters include advising:

Secondary purchases and sales of fund interests

  • Access Capital Partners on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests
  • Aberdeen Standard Investments on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests
  • A family office on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests to five purchasers
  • A French governmental institution on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests
  • SwanCap Partners on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests


GP-led liquidity solutions

  • Palamon Capital Partners on a tender offer to investors in two early vintage funds to a consortium of fiver buyer groups
  • BlueGem Capital Partners on a GP-led asset-level liquidity offering, involving the transfer of remaining assets in a fund managed by BlueGem to a newly established continuation fund
  • A European alternative asset manager on a GP-led liquidity offering to investors in five existing fund vehicles, with a primary staple


Fund Formation

  • One Peak on the formation of its €443 million European growth equity fund, One Peak Growth II SCSp
  • A UK fund manager on the formation of a £600 million mid-market private equity fund
  • CGS Management on the formation of CGS IV, a CHF 240 million private equity fund
  • VGC Partners on its first consumer and media technology growth capital fund


Co-investments

  • An infrastructure co-investment fund on a number of direct and indirect infrastructure co-investments