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Marcel Bartnik

Marcel Bartnik

VANDENBULKE, Luxembourg

Work Department

INVESTMENT FUNDS

Position

Marcel is a partner at VANDENBULKE and heads the firm’s investment funds practice. His work consists in advising institutional clients, family offices and fund managers or advisors on the structuring and establishment of Luxembourg regulated and unregulated investment funds in a variety of asset classes such as debt, private equity, venture capital, real estate or hedge.

Active in this field for almost 20 years, his work relates among others to vehicles such as RAIFs, partnerships (SCS / SCSp), SIFs, SICARs and UCITS, regularly including the conducting of approval processes with the CSSF. He also assists management companies and AIFMs with license extensions, any other regulatory issues or the establishment of such entity from the start until the receipt of their license from the Luxembourg regulator CSSF.

In addition, he is regularly involved in investor due diligences for his clients, including assisting them with negotiating side letter provisions.

Career

Marcel’s experience as a lawyer in the investment funds sector in Luxembourg started in 2005. Since then, he has been providing practical and in-depth legal and regulatory advice on the structuring and establishment of Luxembourg regulated and unregulated investment funds. Before joining Vandenbulke, Marcel gathered extensive experience in leading local and international law firms in Luxembourg.

Marcel is an active member of several working groups within the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI), and is also active in other professional organizations such as the Luxembourg Private Equity Association (LPEA).

He publishes regularly and extensively in his field of expertise.

Languages

German, English, French

Education

First (1999) and Second (2004) State Exam (Germany). Diplôme d´études universitaires générales (DEUG), mention droit, France (1996). Diplôme d´��tudes Approfondies (D.E.A), University Aix-Marseille III, France (2000). Doctor in Law (Dr. iur.) (2003). Member of the German bar (Rechtsanwalt) (2005). Member of the Luxembourg bar (Liste IV) (2007).