Ian Warner
Partner
Ian is an investment funds expert. He advises fund managers on the structuring and establishing of investment funds in a range of sectors with a particular focus on private equity, real estate, debt and infrastructure. Ian also has a substantial practice advising institutional investors on their strategic and cornerstone investments into funds across a spread of asset classes.
Ian'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 Aberdeen (the Buyer) on a secondary fund purchase of two portfolios (one French FCPI Fund and one English limited partnership), the Seller being the European Investment Bank.
- €75m
- Cross-border
- Investment Funds
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Advised climate-tech VC fund, Systemiq Capital, on the $70 million first close of its second fund, targeting $200 million to continue backing the best early-stage climate tech entrepreneurs.
- United Kingdom and Luxembourg
- Financial Services
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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 Clean Growth Investment Management on five closings of its first fund to invest in technologies aimed at reducing carbon emissions.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advising Asian Development Bank on the design and development of an innovative Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) in Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. The unprecedented ETM is a proposed funding vehicle to purchase or contractually take over coal power or other fossil fuel-based generation assets while supporting the scale-up of renewable energy.
- Cross-border
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Advised Dalmore Capital Limited on the establishment of two new investment funds structured as English limited partnerships to participate in the Porterbrook infrastructure transaction.
- £200m
- United Kingdom
- Financial 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 on a new £15m homelessness social investment property fund to help meet increasing demand to house rough sleepers in London. The "Everyone In" fund was launched by Resonance, a leading social impact investment company, with an initial investment of £12.5 million and has a target fund size of £15 million.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
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Advised on what is believed to be the world's first gender-lens investment property fund, to support women experiencing, or at risk of homelessness. The £100mn Women in Safe Homes fund has been created as a solution to the lack of affordable, safe and secure homes for women who are experiencing homelessness, have been involved with the criminal justice system, are survivors of domestic abuse or have other complex needs.
- United Kingdom
- Financial Services
Credentials
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2008Joined Pinsent Masons
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2000Qualified - England and Wales
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1997LLB, Hull University
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