Drawing upon strong connections with the regulator and leveraging thorough institutional knowledge developed over the team’s many years’ in practice, Clifford Chance has ‘deep working knowledge of the Luxembourg alternative investment fund management industry and market’. Consequently, on its own, as well as with practitioners throughout the firm’s international network, the five-partner team can offer a one-stop-shop solution across the myriad legal and regulatory issues related to investment activities, including fund formation and structuring, investor advice, secondary transactions, and ongoing operational advice. Delivering ’advice which is grounded in a sound regulatory foundation’, Emmanuel-Frédéric Henrion has excellent traction in the UCITs market as well as for sponsors setting up funds to invest in private equity and real estate assets. Kristof Meynaerts is skilled at advising on regulated and unregulated funds, and also adds an added layer of skill by virtue of his fund finance expertise. The ‘thoughtful and solutions-oriented’ Maren Stadler-Tjan is active on both the fund manager and institutional investor side with regard to real estate, private equity and debt funds, in particular, and also spearheads the team’s ESG initiative. Oliver Zwick rounds out the team at a partner level, and along with counsel Christian Lennig is ’adept at bridging cultural and market differences when negotiating with international lawyers’. Paul Van den Abeele left the firm.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The team has a deep working knowledge of the Luxembourg alternative investment fund management industry and market. It has a very good understanding of how best to work with the CSSF.'
- 'The the team provides us with excellent support on all regulatory topics, in particular new fund approvals and the extension of licences and thus communication with our supervisory authority.'
Key clients
- North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
- Mercer
Work highlights
- Advised the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on a multi-jurisdictional fund project and the launch of the NATO Innovation Fund, the world's first-ever multi-sovereign venture capital fund.
- Advised Mercer Alternatives (owned by Marsh McLennan) on the successful structuring and establishment of its flagship successor fund, Mercer Private Investment Partners VIII SICAV-RAIF. The product is structured as an umbrella fund with currently fifteen sub-funds investing into private equity, real estate, debt and infrastructure target funds.