Lewis Apostolou
Asia-Pacific Guide 2025
Band 2 : Investment Funds
Band 2
About
Provided by Lewis Apostolou
Practice Areas
Lewis leads our Australian Funds Transaction Group. He is also a member of Baker McKenzie's Global Funds Steering Committee and the Australian Management Committee.
Lewis is a corporate and securities partner and assists clients undertake domestic and cross-border capital markets and M&A transactions. He is the Head of the Funds Transaction Group and has a particular focus on the alternative private investment fund and REIT sectors, working closely with the Firm's private equity, real estate and energy and infrastructure groups on private fund formation, complex M&A transactions, privatisations, take private transactions and structured investment transactions in those sectors.
Lewis also advises investors in such funds and other investment arrangements, including pension and sovereign wealth funds. He also regularly advises clients on Foreign Investment Review Board matters.
Lewis also has extensive experience in advising clients on a range of matters relating to the funds management and financial services industries, including product development, regulatory compliance and corporate governance. He is referred to as a leading lawyer in Investment Funds in Chambers Asia Pacific Guide, 2012 - 2024.
Clients have described him as a "very capable lawyer who is able to handle complex situations", and also someone who is "very client-focused and has a trusted adviser status with clients".
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Lewis Apostolou counts major institutional investors, including pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, among his clientele, whom he often advises in relation to their commitments in private funds.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"A great operator with strong experience both locally and internationally. He has a client-centric approach and is smart and commercially astute."
"Lewis is great to work with. He's very responsive and very calm. He is able to help simplify very complex and very long documents that don't seem to make sense."
"A great operator with strong experience both locally and internationally. He has a client-centric approach and is smart and commercially astute."
"Lewis is great to work with. He's very responsive and very calm. He is able to help simplify very complex and very long documents that don't seem to make sense."