International law firm Simmons & Simmons has unveiled the first dedicated online resource for start-up hedge fund managers, LaunchPlus, which supports emerging managers in the launch and operation of a new hedge fund management business.
The resource has been created by a dedicated team within the firm’s award-winning hedge fund practice.
Richard Perry, head of the firm’s Financial Services group, says: “We have designed this resource to help today’s emerging investment managers tackle the considerable number of decision points and workstreams involved in setting up from scratch. Simmons & Simmons LaunchPlus provides essential resources to help start-up managers get to grips with these challenges. From working through structuring and domicile considerations through to helping a new manager plan the critical milestones for their launch, Simmons & Simmons LaunchPlus has the key information anyone setting up a hedge fund business needs, and it is provided by a team that supports clients during the start-up phase and beyond.
“Our clients are some of the largest and best known European hedge fund businesses – many have been our clients since they were start-ups themselves. Simmons & Simmons LaunchPlus brings together our years of unparalleled experience working with start-up funds in a highly convenient and cost effective way for new clients.”
The LaunchPlus resource is yet another boost to the firm’s reputation as the leading hedge fund firm, which already boasts the largest hedge fund team in London and global support to hedge funds in Hong Kong and throughout Europe and the Middle East, alongside US support from New York hedge fund specialists Seward & Kissel LLP.
