ANDREW HOUGIE

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ANDREW HOUGIE

PARTNER – FINANCIAL SERVICES

PRACTICE AREA

EDUCATION AND BIOGRAPHY

Andrew Hougie has wide-ranging experience with exchanged traded products, investment trusts, closed-end investment companies, hedge funds, funds of funds and other collective investment funds, as well as with transactional and advisory work in funds, financial institutions, asset management and general corporate finance. He has more than 30 years’ experience advising funds, fund managers, brokers and corporates on matters including commodities-related structured products, the design, launch, take-over, merger, reorganisation and reconstruction of funds, and other matters.

Andrew co-authored a chapter for Hedge Funds and the Law published by Sweet & Maxwell in 2009, entitled Initial Public Offerings: Practice and Procedure for Hedge Fund Managers and Hedge Funds.

Background

Andrew qualified as a solicitor in 1986 at Slaughter and May where he specialised in public (listed) company corporate work and financial services and investment funds. In 1996 he joined Clifford Chance and became a partner in its financial institutions group in 1999. Andrew joined Dechert LLP as a partner in its financial services group in 2005, joined ETF Securities (UK) Limited in 2016 and joined W Legal Limited in 2018.

Specialties: Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs), Investment Trusts, Investment companies and other listed closed end funds, hedge funds, UCITS and other regulated funds

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Education and Biography

Lisa has particular expertise in bribery and corruption, money laundering, fraud, tax evasion and market abuse matters and has acted for clients in some of the most high-profile cases brought by the SFO, FCA, CPS and other UK and international prosecution authorities. Many of those cases involved complex cross boarder issues such as requests made pursuant to mutual legal assistance treaties, double jeopardy, human rights, and extradition. Lisa has also successfully challenged decisions made by different prosecuting authorities in judicial review proceedings and under the victims right to review scheme.

In addition, Lisa has considerable experience acting for clients in civil fraud and director misfeasance cases, civil tax matters brought by HMRC, as well as personal and company insolvency matters.

Lisa is well known and respected in the industry as someone who can provide pragmatic and results oriented advice.

W Legal Limited is not a partnership and the term “partner” applied to a person does not denote that such person is in partnership with W Legal Limited or with any other partner, consultant, director, officer, employee or agent of W Legal Limited.  The term is used to describe a person’s seniority and experience.

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