Elaine MacGregor
Legal Director
Elaine specialises in advising institutional investors such as development finance institutions, pension schemes and insurers, on their investment programmes across a wide variety of asset classes, including private equity, credit, infrastructure and renewable assets.
Elaine's experience
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Advised the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on its secondary sale of part of its interest in Seraya Partners Fund I to GenZero, a Temasek-owned decarbonisation investment platform.
- Cross-border
- Financial Services
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Advised Zurich Assurance Ltd. on its investment in Big Nature Impact Fund, a Finance Earth managed UK nature-based solutions fund.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised Scottish National Investment Bank in relation to their £20m investment in Renewco Power, a Glasgow-headquartered renewable energy developer, via a fund managed by Corran Capital.
- United Kingdom
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Appointed as Strathclyde’s sole end-to-end legal services provider advising on their private market investment portfolios, including their Direct Impact Portfolio and evergreen private debt and real estate mandates.
- United Kingdom
- Professional & Public Services
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Advised a consortium of development finance institutions, including CDC Group Plc, BIO and Proparco on their investment in Incofin India Progress Fund – an India-focused impact fund making private equity investments in the Indian agri-food value chain and in financial inclusion for rural entrepreneurs in India.
- Cross-border
- Financial Services
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Advised UK local authority pension funds on their investments (via individual, bespoke investor compartments) into a new multi-strategy private equity platform managed by a high profile fund of funds manager
- United Kingdom
- Pensions investments
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Providing ongoing advice on investments by Strathclyde Pension Fund's Direct Investment Portfolio since its inception and which has since committed into assets as diverse as small company financing, direct lending, renewable energy, infrastructure and local property development.
- Cross-border
- Pensions investments
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Advising UK local government pension schemes on their investments within the Pension Infrastructure Platform, an infrastructure platform that has been specifically developed to facilitate long term investment into UK infrastructure by pension schemes (ongoing)
- United Kingdom
- Pensions investments
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Provided advice in connection with the establishment and subsequent investment into a single-investor UK limited partnership for real estate investments by a local authority pension fund (2013-2017)
- United Kingdom
- Pensions investments
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Advising a local authority pension fund on its £400M global real estate mandate with a private real estate investment manager (ongoing)
- United Kingdom
- Pensions investments
Credentials
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1999Qualified - Scotland
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1997Aberdeen University - Diploma in Legal Practice
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1996Aberdeen University - LLB (Hons)
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