Megan Lau

• Advised a global private markets firm, on their co-investment alongside a private equity investment firm, in a UK AIM listed company, in a public to private transaction.
• Advised a sovereign financial institution on its investment into a GP-led continuation fund managed by a VC manager focused on technology. The continuation fund had purchased interests in a portfolio of five French growth companies in the lower end of the market.
• Advised a private equity secondaries investment firm, on a GP-led transaction (the purchase of 29 fund interests through a separately managed account). The purchase involved deferred consideration which was guaranteed and secured by a pledge over the limited partnership interest in the SMA.
• Advised a French private equity secondaries investment firm on various buy side portfolio secondaries transactions.
• Advised a leading private markets investor in respect of their private debt investments (including co-investments and LP and GP-led secondaries).
• Advised a global private markets firm, on their co-investment alongside a multi-strategy private investment firm, in a German commercial real estate lender, in a public to private transaction.
• Advised on the establishment of a Luxembourg venture capital fund of funds.
• Advised a global private assets manager on its $150 million portfolio sale of LP interests.
• Advised the asset management division of a Nordic financial services group on the disposal of a large portfolio of private equity fund interests.

Megan Lau is counsel in the Investment Funds Group in London. She focuses her practice on investment funds, secondary transactions, co-investments, fund formations, and LP representation. Her clients include private equity and venture capital fund managers, institutional investors and advisors, family offices, and private wealth advisors.

Bar Admissions

• Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

• University of Law (L.P.C., 2010)
• University of Exeter (LL.B., 2009)