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Lawson Advisory provides tailored advice and legal execution support for sponsors and investors across a range of private market transactions.Drawing on extensive in-house experience at a leading private markets business, founder Giles Lawson has a deep understanding of the legal, structural and commercial process considerations surrounding the raising and deployment of capital in private markets transactions.Lawson Advisory provides holistic support to clients throughout the transaction process, providing not only technical legal input but also commercially grounded and process oriented guidance that reflects how private capital markets transactions are originated, approved, negotiated and closed in practice.We can operate as an extension of your internal team, working closely with investment professionals, legal, tax, compliance, and external advisers to coordinate execution and keep transactions moving efficiently and effectively.

Giles Lawson

Lawson Advisory is led by Giles Lawson, a lawyer with 17 years of experience in top-tier advisory roles. He spent over 12 years at Coller Capital, a global private equity firm with $40bn in assets under management, where he was a Principal in the investment team specialising in legal execution.At Coller, Giles oversaw the execution of over $10bn of buyside transactions across a wide range of secondaries investments in private equity and credit — from traditional LP portfolios to some of the market’s largest GP-led transactions. He played a key role in the creation and fundraising of the firm’s credit secondaries platform and led the structuring and execution of approximately $5bn of collateralised fund obligation (CFO) transactions. His experience includes structuring private equity and credit funds, SMAs, co-investments, financing and warehousing transactions, and executing a range of complex private markets investment structures and liquidity solutions.Earlier in his career, Giles worked in private practice at Slaughter and May, where he advised private and listed clients on M&A, capital markets, investment structures, and general corporate matters.Giles draws on this background to advise clients on the legal, structural and practical considerations that arise in private market transactions.

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Legal and Regulatory Information:Lawson Advisory is a trading name of Lawson Transaction Services Limited, a limited company with registration number 16427759.We are a non-SRA authorised firm and are not specifically authorised by an approved regulator under the Legal Services Act 2007. We employ a solicitor holding a practicing certificate who is regulated by the SRA in his personal capacity (Giles Lawson SRA number 412741). The Solicitors regulatory Authority (SRA) is the independent regulatory body of the Law Society.The specific terms and conditions of our services will vary by engagement and will be provided with our engagement letter.