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Work Department

Investment Funds.

Position

Isabelle Lebbe is a partner in the investment funds practice of Arendt & Medernach where she specialises in a wide range of investment funds with a focus on UCITS funds. She is also a member of the firm’s council. She advises clients on the corporate, regulatory and tax aspects of the creation, marketing and operation of investment funds and management entities.

Career

She is also an arbitrator and a member of the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (C.E.P.A.N.I.). Isabelle is a regular conference speaker. She is a chairman or member of a number of committees and sub-committees established by the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) and by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the regulatory authority of the financial sector in Luxembourg. She was named “Best in Investment Funds” in Europe at the Euromoney Legal Media Group’s inaugural Women in Business Law Awards 2011. She is the co-author of a book entitled Collective Investment Schemes in Luxembourg: Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, January 2009), which first came out in French (Les organismes de placement collectif en droit luxembourgeois, Larcier, Brussels, 2nd edition, 2007). She is also the chairwoman of the Editing Committee of the Luxembourg Fund Review Magazine.

Languages

English, French and Dutch.

Member

She has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1999.

Education

Isabelle Lebbe holds a Master's degree in law from the Université de Liège (Belgium).