Ashley is based in London where he has 17 years experience advising clients in fund investments, including 11 years exclusively focused on institutional unlisted real estate vehicles. He has a strong track record in secondary market advisory, fund and JV structuring and restructuring, capital raising as well as buyside advisory.
Ashley was formerly a director at JLL Corporate Finance for 9 years, where he ran the UK Private Funds Advisory Team, joining from Cushman and Wakefield after 2 years in their Indirect Investment team. Prior to that, Ashley spent 5 years working in New York for Guggenheim Asset Management working with hedge and private equity funds.
Ashley has overseen over €4bn of transactions including secondary market acquisitions and sales, capital raises and fund restructuring. He has also advised on over €2bn in fund acquisitions, fund restructures, fund pricing and portfolio monitoring roles.
Ashley holds an MA in Property Valuation and Law from Cass Business School, City University and a BSc in Management from Lancaster University. He is an IPF Member and sits on the INREV Secondary Market Committee.
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Session I - Does Luxembourg work from a Product Design perspective?
- Overview of Luxembourg vehicles and ability of Lux toolkit to have a large reach
- The trends around Open and closed ended funds
- RAIF vs SIF vs simple AIF
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Session II - Does Luxembourg work from an Operations perspective?
- AIFM (own vs 3rd party models in practice)
- Substance/headcount /Valuation/ Feedback from regulator visits
- Efficiencies in administration and technology
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Session III - Does Luxembourg work from a Marketing/distribution perspective?
- Overview of common distribution models
- Capital raising trends and marketing strategies post Brexit
- Different solutions and impact into marketing/distribution strategy
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