Michaela Walker

Partner and Head of Financial Services Product Group, Eversheds Sutherland

Michaela undertakes a wide range of financial services work including establishing unit trusts and open-ended investment companies. She acts for fund management clients in all aspects of their regulated activities and product development as well as related corporate work. She has been involved in a number of mergers of authorised unit trusts conversions and restructuring into OEICs and schemes of unitisation.

She is lead author of the commentary on the 'Collective Investment Schemes Sourcebook' for Butterworths' Financial Regulation Service.

“In Michaela, we are fortunate to deal with a Partner who is not only vastly experienced but who is highly adept at assisting CIP in moving forward what can sometimes be complicated/stressful negotiations with a firm eye always on the bottom line. This again is hugely appreciated." Andrew Newson, Citibank International Plc

Contributed to

2 Other work

FCA Discussion Paper DP21/4 Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels

Financial Services analysis: Following the recent UK government Roadmap, on 3 November 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a discussion paper setting out its plans for Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) for corporates, asset managers and products, and a sustainable investment categorisation and labelling scheme for retail investment products. This News Analysis, authored by Michaela Walker and Phil Spyropoulos, partners of Eversheds Sutherland, sets out a summary of the discussion paper.

FCA policy statement on long term assets funds (LTAFs)

Financial Services analysis: Michaela Walker, partner, Julian Brown, partner, Mark Latimour, partner and Gareth Collins, associate, of Eversheds Sutherland LLP analyse the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) policy statement on the new UK Long Term Asset Fund (LTAF), including governance and disclosure, purpose, investment powers and restrictions, valuation, redemptions and distribution.