Forming a key part of the firm's global private funds offering, Goodwin's Luxembourg office regularly works alongside its London and US offices on behalf of fund managers establishing Luxembourg-based structures to facilitate investment across a range of strategies. Splitting her time between Luxembourg and London, team head Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine is acclaimed for her private equity and debt fund formation work, where she is appreciated for her 'solutions-driven' advice.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Investment fund and private equity in particular is the DNA of this firm. Goodwin is a private funds practice specialist.’

  • ‘Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine is acclaimed for her strong private fund formation work with private equity and debt fund in particular – she is solutions-driven and has excellent business understanding.'

Key clients

  • Macquarie Green Investment Group
  • Bregal Unternehmerkapital
  • G Squared
  • Kharis Capital
  • NBD Ventures
  • Five Arrows
  • Investcorp
  • Neuberger Berman
  • Pantheon
  • Platina Partners
  • Prime Group Holdings
  • LGT Capital Partners
  • American Postal Infrastructure
  • AUM Asset Management
  • BentallGreenOak
  • Glennmont Partners (Nuveen)
  • Frogmore
  • TA Associates
  • Patron
  • Allspring
  • Kennedy Wilson

Work highlights

  • Advised ICG on the structuring and fundraising of its eighth European Corporate fund.
  • Advised Neuberger Berman on its fifth global private equity secondary fund, NB Secondary Opportunities Fund V LP.
  • Advised Prime Group Holdings, LLC on the successful closing of its third flagship self-storage fund, Prime Storage Fund III, LP, at the fund’s hard cap of $2.5bn, exceeding its $1.5bn target.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Alexandrine Armstrong-Cerfontaine

Other key lawyers

Oana Millich, Philip Spilberg, Marianna Spyropoulou