Sharon Ayres Bio

Sharon Ayres is a corporate lawyer with over 25 years experience of helping clients secure a preferential outcome on transactions. She handles every deal with a passion for achieving the best result for her clients, finding solutions to the trickiest of issues. Sharon specialises in private investment funds largely in the real estate sector (with particular interest in retail, industrial, student accommodation and mixed use) but she also advises on private equity funds, hedge funds, renewable energy funds; infrastructure funds and other investment funds that have an investment strategy that investors are willing to back - whether it is art, wine, litigation, football or social impact. Her projects include advising on EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) and Seed EIS investment funds, equity crowd-funding and investment structures involving public sector bodies investing alongside private investment.