Arendt & Medernach

Private Equity & Real Estate

Gilles Dusemon is a Partner in the Investment Management practice and a Co-Chair of Arendt. He specialises in the formation of alternative investment funds (AIF) with a particular focus on private equity, infrastructure and private credit funds including secondaries, funds of funds and special situation funds. He is qualified in investment management related regulatory, corporate and tax law matters, in particular advising AIFMs on strategic and operational matters. He is also assisting clients on high profile litigation cases involving alternative investment funds and AIFMs.

Prior to joining Arendt & Medernach, he was a partner of the Benelux firm Loyens & Loeff, heading its Luxembourg investment management practice group. He started his career with Loeff, Claeys & Verbeke in 1996 in Luxembourg (which was later integrated into Allen & Overy) and served in Allen & Overy's New York office from 2000 to 2001.

English, French, German, Italian, Luxembourgish.

He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1997.

Gilles Dusemon is actively involved with the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI). He serves as co-chairman of ALFI's Private Equity and Venture Capital Working Group. He is also a founding member of LPEA, the Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, and is sitting on its Executive Board. He is also a member of the Legal & Regulatory Committee of Invest Europe (Brussels) and former chair (2019-2020).

He is a regular speaker at international seminars and conferences addressing fund structuring topics in particular.

Gilles Dusemon holds a Master's degree in business and tax law from the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (France), as well as an LL.M. in International Taxation from New York University (2000).