Hermann Beythan > Linklaters > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile
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AVENUE JOHN F. KENNEDY 35
L-1855 LUXEMBOURG
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Hermann Beythan
Work Department
Investment Funds
Position
Hermann is an Of Counsel in the Investment Funds practice. He has headed the practice for several years. His investment funds practice focuses on complex fund structuring. Hermann regularly acts as counsel to prime investment fund houses. Hermann is regularly involved in the structuring of complex investment fund structures, notably debt and real estate funds. Brexit related work is the third pillar at Hermann’s practice.
Hermann is also acknowledged by the market as a regulatory expert in investment management matters. A particular focus of his regulatory practice, apart from cross-border financial service provisions and cross-border private placements, is outsourcing and the conduct of change of control procedure with the Luxembourg and EU regulators.
Languages
English, French and German
Memberships
Hermann is active in several industry associations. He is a member of the board of directors of the Luxembourg investment fund industry representation, ALFI and he sits as well on the ALFI RegBo and he chairs the ALFI Working Group on European Marketing Rules and the ALFI/ABBL Depositary Bank Forum Working Group. He is further a member of several EFAMA Working groups.
Hermann is member of the very select CSSF Investment Fund Managers Committee and he is a regular speaker at all major ALFI conferences, such as most recently the ALFI Leading Edge Conference in London, the European Alternative Investment Funds Conference, the Global Distribution Conference as well as ALFI Roadshows to the U.S., to Switzerland and to Frankfurt.
Country of Admission: Germany and Luxembourg
Education
Hermann studied law at the University of Luxembourg and Japanese culture at the International Christian University in Tokyo.
He holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Nancy, France
Lawyer Rankings
Luxembourg > Investment funds
(Leading 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