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Karen Anderberg
Partner, London at DechertKaren L. Anderberg advises UK, U.S. and European asset managers and investment funds on all aspects of U.S. financial services regulatory issues, including Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investment adviser and investment fund registration and exemptions and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) requirements. Ms. Anderberg’s practice also consists of advising investment funds (including UCITS and AIFs) on global distribution issues, both via registration or passporting and on a private placement basis. Ms. Anderberg also counsels large financial services firms on global compliance and distribution matters.
The Legal 500 UK recommend Ms. Anderberg for investment funds and financial services regulatory. The 2021 edition notes that she is “very responsive, with very strong knowledge of applicable law and regulation in the UK and across many other jurisdictions”. One client says “Karen Anderberg provides practical solutions that are very helpful to in-house lawyers. She is always our starting point when we encounter a novel distribution-related issue for which we do not have an answer or when we encounter a practical, legal, or regulatory impediment relating to cross-border distribution. She is also wonderfully pleasant to work with”. Ms. Anderberg has been recommended for financial services regulation since 2012 in The Legal 500 UK, where she was described as "friendly and calm".
Ms. Anderberg co-edited U.S. Regulation for Asset Managers Outside the United States published by Sweet and Maxwell in 2017. She has spoken extensively on financial services regulatory matters, and has co-hosted seminars on “U.S. Regulation for UK Legal and Compliance Professionals” since 2008.Ms. Anderberg has also been selected by Legal Business for inclusion in editions of Legal Experts in the field of Investment Funds since 2011.
Ms. Anderberg became a partner in January 2001. She joined Dechert as an associate in 1992 and practiced in Dechert’s Washington, D.C. office prior to 2003. She is admitted to practice before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the Maryland Court of Appeals. She is also a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bar Associations.
Dean Collins
Partner at Dechert (Singapore) Pte LtdDean Collins, the Managing Partner of Dechert's Singapore office, is recognized as one of the foremost private equity lawyers in Asia and worldwide, having been ranked in Band 1 for Fund Formation for the past thirteen years by Chambers Asia Pacific and being named in the most recent "The Legal Power 30," Private Equity International's list of the thirty most influential private equity lawyers in the world. He is the only lawyer based in Southeast Asia and one of only two fund formation experts in Asia named to the list.
Mr. Collins counsels clients on the structuring and establishment of private equity investment funds, secondary transactions, carried interest and co-investment plans, team spin-outs, co-investments and other private equity related transactions. Mr. Collins also acts on the establishment of other types of alternative investment funds as well as providing advice to major institutional investors on their investments into funds both in Asia and elsewhere. Mr. Collins has led some of the highest-profile and ground-breaking transactions in the market including advising an Asian financial institution on the disposal of a ‘mega-portfolio’ of 95 Limited Partnership interests to a secondaries fund, in the largest ever secondaries transaction globally, Primavera Capital on the establishment of several private equity funds, including their third fund which raised US$3.4bn and was at that time the second ever largest China-focused private equity fund, Dymon Asia on the recent establishment of their third private equity fund which achieved its hard cap of US$650m and Genesis Alternatives on the establishment of Southeast Asia’s first ever venture debt fund.
Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Collins worked at Actis, the leading pan-emerging markets private equity firm, as an in-house lawyer and then as a Director in its highly regarded fundraising team.