Guernsey Funds Forum 2025 - 2

Contributors:

Stephanie Biggs
Partner

Company
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Ed Hammond
Head of Tax & GP Operations

Company
Coller Capital

Jerry Paul
Finance & Operations

Company
Queen's Park Equity

Aranpreet Randhawa
Partner

Company
Fried Frank

The second panel of the annual flagship event focus on Guernsey's edge: global regs, liquidity, and fund innovation.

Stephanie Biggs

Partner

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Based in Simpson Thacher’s London office, Stephanie Biggs co-leads the Firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory team. She advises private funds, asset managers and financial institutions on European financial market regulations and transactions. Noted by clients as "very highly regarded in the funds regulatory space," she has advised some of the world’s most prominent sponsors on the European regulatory aspects of major fundraises, including structuring and marketing issues, and has advised on the acquisitions of businesses subject to financial regulation, including change in control and regulatory capital matters.

Widely recognised for her prowess in providing tailored, innovative guidance, Stephanie is praised by clients in The Legal 500 as "brilliant at coming up with creative solutions, explaining complex rules clearly and identifying what we actually need to do in practice to comply." Stephanie is also recognised by Chambers UK and is identified by Who’s Who Legal as a "Global Elite Thought Leader" for private funds regulation.

Ed Hammond

Head of Tax & GP Operations

Coller Capital

Ed Hammond is a Chartered Tax Adviser and joined Coller Capital, one of the world’s leading private capital secondaries investors with $36bn AUM, in 2007. He currently works as Head of Tax and GP Operations.

Jerry Paul

Finance & Operations

Queen's Park Equity

Jerry is CFO at Queen’s Park Equity, a lower UK mid-market focused private equity firm with more than £200m AUM. He has more than 30 years of experience in the private equity and financial services industry. Before QPE, he worked as the CFO at Argan Capital for more than 12 years, and prior to Argan’s spin-out from Bank of America, Jerry served as the European Private Equity Finance Director within the bank. Before joining Bank of America, Jerry worked for PwC in London and Guernsey. Jerry is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Durham.

Aranpreet Randhawa

Partner

Fried Frank

Aranpreet Randhawa advises European and international clients on the structuring, formation, and operation of both open- and closed-ended investment funds across various strategies, including private equity, growth, infrastructure, and real estate. Aranpreet also regularly advises on spin-outs, co-investments, end-of-life restructurings, and the establishment of carried interest and co-investment schemes. The Legal 500 recognises Aranpreet in the Investment Funds: Private Funds category as a Next Generation Partner. Aranpreet was also recognised as a notable practitioner in Investment Funds by IFLR 1000.