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Frances Holliday

Partner

Frances is a Partner and General Counsel for LeapFrog Investments, responsible for the firm’s legal functions across its global team and almost 40 portfolio companies. She plays a vital role in crafting all of LeapFrog’s deals, exits, fundraises, compliance processes and strategic partnerships. Frances serves on the management board and executive committee, and attends all investment committees.

Frances is a member of the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association’s Legal and Regulatory Committee, and a regional board member of the Global Association of Impact Lawyers.

Frances has more than 20 years of diverse high-level legal experience. As General Counsel at Kazimir Partners, an asset manager focused on emerging markets, she drove complex deal structuring, fund formation and cross-border investments in emerging markets including Africa and Asia. Prior to that, she was a specialist mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Slaughter and May, a top-tier global law firm leading large-scale transactions for the public and private sectors.

Frances holds a BA in Oriental Studies from Oxford University, where she was also awarded a travelling fellowship to the United Nations Sub-Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, and a Post-graduate diploma in Law and Legal Practice from Nottingham Law School. She is fluent in Japanese, Russian and French.