Pillsbury—Gawain Hughes

Gawain Hughes has joined Pillsbury as partner in London. He comes to the firm after a number of years with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, having also previously led the EMEA funds practice at DLA Piper.

“Growing our London office is a strategic priority for Pillsbury, as it provides vital services to our clients in cross-border and other important matters in the UK, across Europe and the Middle East, and globally,” said Office Managing Partner Matthew Oresman. “Gawain’s arrival marks exciting progress towards those goals. He has built a successful international funds practice that fits incredibly well on our platform, and significantly enhances our ability to meet investor clients’ evolving transactional needs. We are so pleased to welcome him to the firm.”

Hughes advises leading global institutional fund managers and investors on the structuring of and investment into unregulated investment funds, with a focus on private equity, infrastructure, real estate and debt investments. Hughes also has a market-leading transactional practice in all types of secondary and co-investment deals including portfolio sales, direct secondaries, syndicated secondaries, GP led restructurings and co-investments, acting for some of the most active global participants in these sectors.

James Campbell, who leads Pillsbury’s London Corporate team, said: “Gawain offers deep knowledge and wide-ranging expertise to all types of investors. His impressive skillset, taken together with our existing funds capabilities and our broader strengths in representing financial industry clients, will be of enormous benefit to the various fund managers, family offices and institutional investors we represent, in Europe, US and elsewhere.”

“I was drawn to Pillsbury because of its established reputation internationally, as well as the entrepreneurial spirit that has long been its hallmark,” Hughes said. “The firm is on a really exciting trajectory—in the UK and beyond—and I’m very much looking forward to playing a role in that effort.”