People
Karen Boadu
Biography
Karen advises fund managers on the establishment of funds across a range of asset classes, including real estate, private equity, private credit, infrastructure as well as funds of funds and joint ventures.
She is also part of our Band 1 institutional investor practice advising sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, development finance institutions, insurance companies, family offices and other institutional investors on fund investments, co-investments, funds of one and managed accounts across all asset classes.
Practice areas
- Finance
- Funds and asset management
Sectors
- Sovereign wealth and institutional investors
Selected experience
- A Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on its USD 100m fund investment into a technology fund.
- A development finance institution on its investment into a pan-African private equity fund.
- A Namibian sovereign wealth fund on the establishment of a hydrogen-focused fund.
- A Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on its USD 50m investment into a healthcare fund.
- A leading European real estate fund manager on the establishment of its EUR 1bn fund (previous firm experience).
- A large US logistics fund manager on the wind-up of one of its joint ventures valued at EUR 1.2bn (previous firm experience).
- A large Canadian pension fund on its EUR 250m investment into a European debt fund (previous firm experience).
- A leading South African private equity company on the establishment of a fund of funds structure for investment in infrastructure, renewable energy, debt finance and strategically complementary strategies (previous firm experience).
Education
- LLB, Law with French Law, UCL, 2014
- Legal Practice Course, University of Law (London), 2015
Admissions
- Solicitor, England and Wales, 2017
Languages
- English