Andrea Dougall’s practice primarily focuses on representing investors on their global fund investments. Her clients include a number of significant sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other global institutional investors, whom she advises on investments in open- and closed-ended funds, separate managed account arrangements, co-investments, joint venture arrangements, and other bespoke investment structures and platforms across asset classes. Andrea is admitted to practice in England & Wales.
Specifically, Andrea has experience in drafting and negotiating the terms of limited partnership agreements, subscription agreements, management and advisory agreements, and side letters for clients investing into leveraged buyout, real estate, energy, infrastructure, venture capital, special opportunity, credit, distressed debt, special opportunity, and hedge funds.
Andrea also provides ongoing advice in connection with investments, including transfers of interest, most-favored-nations processes, and additional equity commitments. Andrea has worked opposite a large number of major fund managers and has assisted her clients to deploy billions of capital into private investment funds.
Furthermore, Andrea provides advice in connection with digital assets and the various regulatory frameworks in the United Arab Emirates, and has authored articles, contributed to reference guides and books, and presented on webinars and panel discussions with respect to the same.
In addition, Andrea undertakes work for a range of pro bono clients, including the International Senior Lawyers Project and an orphanage in Ethiopia.
Andrea has practiced law in London and the United Arab Emirates. Andrea has been based in the Middle East since 2014.
Recommended, Investment Fund Formation and Management, United Arab Emirates, The Legal 500 EMEA (2024)
Member, Law Society of England and Wales
Member, 100 Women in Finance