Profile: Effie Vasilopoulos

Private funds

Biography: Private funds

Effie Vasilopoulos is a partner in Sidley's Hong Kong office and is head of the firm's investment funds practice in Asia. She focuses on investment fund transactions, particularly the development of innovative investment fund structures and financial products including hedge funds, real estate investment trusts, investment-linked assurance arrangements and private equity arrangements. She also has significant experience of corporate finance transactions involving the listing of fund vehicles, joint ventures, the acquisition and disposal of fund-management companies and the restructuring of a wide range of collective investment vehicles.

Vasilopoulos has advised a diverse range of leading participants in the financial services industry in Asia, including government investment corporations, multinational fund sponsors and managers, investment banks, trustees, financial institutions, venture capitalists and institutional investors, including intermediaries involved in the distribution of financial products.

Vasilopoulos is recognised as a leading authority in the funds area in Asia, having been involved in a number of ground-breaking deals in the Asia region over the last few years. She is recognised as a leading lawyer in investment funds in Asia Pacific Legal 500, Asia Law Profiles and Chambers Asia. Sidley was also named 'Investment Funds Law Firm of the Year 2007' by Asian Legal Business.