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Ruth Fesseha
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Louise Yuen

Senior Associate

Louise is a dynamic and meticulous financial services and investment funds lawyer known for her pragmatic and solution-oriented approach. She is dedicated to understanding clients’ commercial needs and delivering innovative strategies to achieve optimal outcomes.

She advises domestic and international fund managers on the structuring, establishment and marketing of their funds, including strategic secondary and other fund-related transactions. This is supported by her understanding of financial services regulatory matters, which includes licensing, distribution and issuance of financial products.

Prior to joining Hamilton Locke, Louise worked at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in New York, which included a secondment to the Singapore office.  Before practising in New York, she was a solicitor in the Funds and Financial Services team at Clayton Utz in Sydney.  Louise also gained in-house experience with a secondment to the legal team of Colonial First State.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Funds Management; Financial Services Regulatory

QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor of Science (Biomedicine and Human Anatomy) – University of Queensland
  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours) – QUT

 

SELECTED REPRESENTATIONS
  • Advised Otro Capital and its partner RedBird Capital in their investment in Alpine Racing Ltd., a world class F1 team that finished top 4 in the 2022 F1 World Championship.
  • Regularly acted for Strategic Partners and Neuberger Berman with respect to LP stakes trades.
  • Advised EQT Exeter on its $4.9 billion U.S. Value Add Industrial Fund.
  • Advised Mercer Investment Management on its fund investments in secondary transactions, co-investments and primary investments.
  • Advised Milestone Logistics on its formation of a fully integrated, internally managed real estate investment trust.
  • Advised Intertrust in its role in the set-up of an Australian feeder fund into a market leading premier real estate fund and the launch of Tanarra Credit Partners Asia-Pacific Fund II.
  • Advised an international PE Fund through the various bidding stages within the NAB MLC auction (valued at $1.4 billion) and the corresponding due diligence process.
  • Advised Longlead Capital Partners on all aspect of the set-up of their Australian Longlead Pan-Asian Absolute Return Fund which serves as a feeder fund to their flagship Longlead Absolute Return Master Fund Ltd.
  • Advised CIP on the licensing, structuring and establishment of the Australian trust, which was one of the ‘parallel funds’ comprising CI IV and has exposure to the Star of the South project.
Brisbane

AREAS OF EXPERTISE