What We Offer
Fund Services
Fund Services
Director-led, professional fund services within a robust framework across a wide range of asset strategies, allowing our clients to focus on their core business
Dedicated to continually exceed your expectations, tailoring our service to your specific needs.
We look to build longterm relationships based on openness, honesty and mutual respect, working alongside our clients to gain a deep understanding of their business needs and goals. This allows us to provide tailored solutions aligned with their investment strategies and objectives, as a trusted partner.
Our team has experience of all fund types, across a variety of asset classes including private equity, real estate, venture capital, and other alternative investments.
Fund Establishment, Launch and Transition
- Fund structure implementation
- Coordinating regulatory application and filing processes
- Investor compliance and on-boarding
- Introduction to, and co-ordination with, intermediaries including legal advisers, auditors, tax advisers and independent non-executive directors
- Bank account opening
- Data collection and systems integration
- Parallel valuation period
- Implementing systems and customised controls and workflows
- Mapping the risk and compliance framework
- Accounting systems preparation and configuration based on agreed methodologies
- Tailored reporting templates
- Developing and verifying waterfall models for carried interest programs
- Launch, closings and equalisations
Fund Administration
- Implementing fund, carry, co-investment, feeder, JV and investment holding structures
- Full company secretarial services and corporate governance support
- Provision of registered office
- Provision of directors
- Provision of regulatory officers for client companies (Compliance Officer, MLCO, MLRO)
- Provision of Designated Services Provider for Jersey Private Funds
- Regulatory and compliance support
- Full accounting and reporting services
- Investor services and portal
- Bank operations, cash management and treasury
- FATCA/CRS compliance services
- Transaction support services
- AIFMD Annex IV reporting
Transfer Agency and Investor Services
- Investor on-boarding, including AML screening to ensure investor compliance with relevant regulations
- Processing transfers of interests, subscriptions, redemptions and distributions
- Calculating and generating call, drawdown and distribution notices
- Processing investor queries
- Maintain investor registers, including all static data, such as investor eligibility and side letter arrangements etc.
- Drafting or reviewing investor communications
- Tailored investor reporting and Fund information
- Investor capital account statements
Compliance and MLRO / MLCO Services
- Provision of regulatory officers (Compliance Officer, MLCO, MLRO, DMLRO)
- Mapping the risk and compliance framework
- Compliance monitoring programmes
- Business Risk assessments
- AML/CTF policy for the fund
- Compliance reviews and board reporting
- Communication with regulators
- Bespoke compliance policy and procedures manual
- Provision of training
- KYC/CDD services
- Regulatory updates
- Gap analysis and remediation projects as part of transitioning funds and structures from other service providers.
Registered Office and Domiciliation Services
- Registered office
- Maintenance of the statutory books of the Company
- Provision of a meeting room for board meetings
- Provision of directors
- Introduction to independent non-executive directors
- Taking receipt of mail
- Company secretarial services
- Corporate governance support
- Provision of regulatory support and officers (Compliance Officer, Money Laundering Compliance and Reporting Officers)
- Transaction support services
- Reviewing delegations to third parties
Fund Accounting and Reporting
- Bookkeeping and Financial accounting o applicable accounting standards
- NAV calculations and forecasting
- Carried interest, performance fee, preferred return calculations
- Calculation of equalisation
- Developing and verifying waterfall models for carried interest programs
- Investor reporting
- Generation of capital account statements
- Liaison with auditors, tax advisers, and legal counsel
- Accounting systems preparation and configuration based on agreed methodologies
Director Services
- Provision of corporate or personal directors
- Drafting accurate minutes of meetings and action lists
- Safe keeping of company records, documents and filings
- Review of contracts and financial statements
- Establishment and management of banking arrangements
- Provision of experienced, knowledgeable specialists
- Corporate governance and economic substance solutions
- Management and oversight of service providers
Company Secretarial Services
- Organisation of quarterly board meetings, meeting packs and agendas
- Preparation of board minutes and action points
- Convening annual general meeting of shareholders
- Coordination, implementation and recording of executive decisions and resolutions
- Preparation and filing of local regulatory forms
- Completion and filing of the annual confirmation statement as nominated person
- Creation and submission of Beneficial Ownership Register
- Maintenance of board date calendar
- Share transfers
- Management of share certificates
- Changes in issued share capital
- Assisting with Board annual self-assessments
- Assisting with appointment of Independent Non-Executive Directors (if required)
Cash Management Services
- Arranging for the opening of bank accounts
- Provision of authorised signatories to the bank accounts
- Operate the bank accounts and process payments in line with payment procedures of the Fund
- Monitoring of incoming and outgoing payments
- Completing bank reconciliations
- Paying Fund structure expense invoices as in line with agreed timelines
- Facilitate and processing distributions and capital payments to investors as appropriate
- Acting as paying agent / calculate cash waterfall payments
- Process underlying collateral purchases
- Processing FX transactions
Regulatory Reporting Services
- Annex IV Reporting
- Legal entity analysis and classification on client structures to determine FATCA status
- Registrations with IRS/ local tax portals
- Provision of Responsible Officer/Point of Contacts
- FATCA/CRS due diligence on new/existing investors
- Liaising with clients and investors where there is insufficient data to determine US status (FATCA) / tax residency (CRS)
- Preparing and liaising with clients and intermediaries to provide self-certifications
- FATCA/CRS reporting and audit trails
- Beneficial ownership and control reporting
- Local regulatory reporting and filings
Key Features
The Forward Approach to Looking After Your Fund
- Establishment of Fund structure
- Administration, Accounting and Company Secretarial services
- Compliance and MLRO / MLCO Services
- Professional Directors and Key Persons
- Consolidated reporting and accounting
- Tax compliance and reporting
Our Team
Key Contacts
A tailored director-led service delivered by our team of fund professionals.
Mark Grenyer
Director, Head of Funds
Shane O’Brien
Associate Director
Ready to move forward?
Talk to our team today and let's move forward together, with clarity and confidence.
