Richard is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins.

Richard Brown has extensive experience of investment fund-related matters and works with clients on fund formation and structuring across a range of investment strategies and asset classes, including: buyout, real estate, infrastructure, and credit. 

Richard has a particular focus on advising private fund sponsors on fund restructurings, GP-led secondary transactions, control asset management M&A acquisitions, GP stake deals, and other strategic or upper-tier transactions, seeding arrangements, co-investment arrangements, and joint ventures.

He also advises cornerstone investors, including sovereign wealth funds, fund-of-fund investors and pension funds, on private investment funds, club deals, and managed account structures.

Richard’s experience includes advising:

  • A major institutional investor on its establishment of a £1.5 billion UK build-to-rent joint venture*
  •  A global alternative asset sponsor on the establishment of a £1 billion music royalty fund*
  • A major global alternative asset sponsor on the merger of two similar-strategy investment funds to establish a single investment fund of £2.8 billion*
  • A UK ESG-focused sponsor on its sale of a minority controlling stake to a US private equity manager*
  • A US multi-asset sponsor on a complex sponsor-led restructuring from a dual-strategy structure with separate classes of interests to a single-strategy structure*
  •  A major global multi-asset sponsor on its acquisition of a controlling majority stake in a UK private real estate manager and developer*
  •  A UK alternative asset sponsor on its sale of a minority non-controlling stake to a Canadian private equity manager*
  • A global multi-asset sponsor on the establishment of an in-house fund-of-fund platform*
  •  A large UK multi-asset sponsor on its acquisition of a UK infrastructure manager*
  • A UK ESG-focused sponsor on its sale of a minority non-controlling stake to a US private equity manager*
  • A US alternative asset sponsor on the establishment of a $450 million pharmaceutical royalty fund*
  • A pan-European real estate sponsor on the establishment of a £500 million real estate fund*
  • An Australian ESG-focused sponsor on the establishment of a £350 million solar and green initiatives fund*
  •  A UK alternative asset sponsor on its all-share acquisition of a US private equity manager*
  • A large UK multi-asset manager on its acquisition of a pan-European real estate and infrastructure manager*
  • A major global multi-asset sponsor on its acquisition of a European in-house pension fund adviser and asset manager*
  • A major global alternative asset sponsor on the merger of two similar-strategy investment funds to establish a single investment fund of £1.2 billion*

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Languages Spoken

  • English