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Linklaters Offices
AVENUE JOHN F. KENNEDY 35
L-1855 LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg
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Claire Prospert
Work Department
Investment Funds
Position
Claire is a partner in the Luxembourg Investment Funds group.
Claire has a broad and deep expertise in all types of investment fund matters. She advises some of the largest international asset managers on the structuring of Luxembourg alternative investment funds in all private market classes, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, debt and hedge funds, as well as the setting-up of co-investment structures or tailored managed accounts.
Claire further covers fund regulatory matters and provides day-to-day assistance to asset managers, both in the regulated and unregulated investments funds sphere.
Besides her expertise in the alternative business, Claire further has deep knowledge of retail investor funds (UCITS and UCIs) and is the legal counsel to a number of flagship funds managed by some of the largest asset managers in the world.
Career
- May 2022 to date Partner, Linklaters, Luxembourg
- May 2020 to May 2022 Consultant, Linklaters, Luxembourg
- 2015 to May 2020 Managing Associate, Linklaters, Luxembourg
- 2009 – 2015 Associate, Linklaters, Luxembourg
Languages
French, English, German, Luxembourgish, Spanish
Memberships
Claire is also an active member of several working groups of the Luxembourg fund industry association (“ALFI”).
Education
- 2008 – 2009 LL.M., University College of London (UK)
- 2006 – 2008 Master’s degree in law, Stockholm University (Sweden) and Ludwig Maximilian University (Germany)
- 2005 – 2006 Degree in law, University of Aix-en-Provence (France)
Lawyer Rankings
Luxembourg > Investment funds
(Next Generation Partners)The ‘very strong’ team at Linklaters ‘covers all the relevant areas of expertise’, particularly for fund managers in the alternative asset space, as well as a growing offering for insurance companies and pension funds as fund investors. The ‘very accomplished and collaborative’ team head Silke Bernard effectively marshals the office’s resources, often working in unison with lawyers from throughout the firm’s vast international network of offices on cross-border matters. As well as fee-earning work, Bernard spearheads the office’s industry efforts promoting the retailisation of private funds. ‘One of the leading experts in the field of fund formation in Luxembourg’, Martin Mager is across all relevant alternative asset classes, including impact funds, and is also spearheading the office’s growing investor-side offering. The ‘commercial’ Claire Prospert ‘has a flexible mindset to try and make client objectives work’, including for some high-profile US private equity sponsors, as well as in the context of retail products. Now in his position as of counsel following his retirement from the partnership, Hermann Beythan has vast knowledge across a broad range of fund mandates, including the creation of AIFMs and other regulatory issues.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Investment funds
- Private equity
- Real estate and construction