Julian Brown has many years of experience advising asset management firms on the structuring of funds and all aspects of their regulation, governance and distribution.
Julian is a Partner in our Financial Services group in London. He undertakes a broad range of financial services work, including the formation and regulation of collective investment schemes, regulatory work for fund management clients, and related Company Commercial work.
This includes UCITS, non UCITS retail schemes (NURS), property authorised investment funds (PAIFs), charity authorised investment funds (CAIFs), funds of alternative investment funds (FAIFs), and qualified investment schemes (QIS) in unit trust, open-ended corporate form (OEIC/ICVC) and ACS/TTF form.
Latest Insights
- legal updatesUK: Implications of FCA’s overhaul of AIFM regime for cross-border distribution of funds
- legal updatesUK: Consumer Duty - FCA products and services review: what asset management firms must do
- legal updatesUK: FCA consults on authorised funds investing in cryptoasset exchange traded notes (cETNs)
legal updates
July 24, 2026
UK: Implications of FCA’s overhaul of AIFM regime for cross-border distribu...
legal updates
July 16, 2026
UK: Consumer Duty - FCA products and services review: what asset management...
legal updates
June 23, 2026
UK: FCA consults on authorised funds investing in cryptoasset exchange trad...
Julian's recent experience includes:
- unit trust and open-ended investment company launches and complex reorganizations
- detailed regulatory advice, financial promotion and custody issues
- offshore closed-ended fund projects
- establishment of investment fund supermarkets and other related "multi-manager" external fund link arrangements
- Ranked in Chambers UK 2022 (Investment Funds: Open-ended Funds)
- Ranked in Chambers UK 2018, 2019
- BA Hons (1st) Modern History Oxford 1989
- Solicitor, England and Wales 1994