Laura F Le Marechal

Laura is a senior associate in Ogier's Cayman Islands Investment Funds team. Laura advises many of the firm's key private equity and hedge fund clients, as well as emerging and start-up asset managers on the establishment, regulation, governance and ongoing operation of closed-ended and open-ended funds.

Laura joined Ogier from Allen & Overy's global fund & asset management group in London where she advised fund managers and sponsors on fund establishments, co-investments, fund IPOs, secondary fundraises, joint ventures, downstream investments, investment management arrangements and regulatory matters including the AIFMD. Laura has extensive LP advisory experience in particular, advising institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and pension schemes, on their investments in funds and other investment structures. Laura has a truly international funds practice having also spent two years in Allen & Overy's funds and regulatory team in Sydney advising on investment fund transactions across APAC. Laura began her career as a corporate lawyer where she gained extensive experience advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets, including advising listed investment funds on IPO's, secondary fundraises and acquisitions.