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Victoria Younghusband  Partner
+44 (0)20 7111 2545
victoria.younghusband@sjberwin.com

Victoria Younghusband is a Partner in the Financial Markets Group, specialising in the asset management industry.

She advises investment funds on all aspects from set-up, flotation and secondary issues to governance, mergers, restructuring and winding-up. She acts for both listed and unlisted funds, closed-ended and open-ended. She also advises asset managers, from set-up to flotation and on mergers and acquisitions, both in respect of funds and of other asset management businesses.

She qualified with Stephenson Harwood, becoming a partner there in 1989 and working in Hong Kong from 1991 to 1995. From 1998 to 2007 she was a Partner and Co-Head of the Investment Fund Team at Lawrence Graham. She is a member of the City of London Law Society Company Law Committee and a member of the Technical Committee of the Association of Investment Companies. From January 2003 to March 2007, she was a member of the Better Regulation Commission, formerly the Better Regulation Task Force.  She is admitted in Hong Kong as well as England and Wales.

She is recognised in Legal 500 and Chambers as a leading adviser on investment funds and is recommended in PLC's Which Lawyer - Investment Funds. She has been described as having a knack of “making sure everything runs smoothly” and praised for her ability to “explain things with great clarity and brevity”.

She has written a number of articles on investment funds and corporate governance and is a regular speaker at conferences on these topics.