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Martin Mager
Work Department
Investment Funds
Position
Martin is a partner in the Luxembourg Investment Funds Group.
He has specialised experience with regard to the structuring, establishment and ongoing advice of alternative investment funds (sponsor practice) as well as advising institutional investors with regard to investments in international fund structures (investor practice).
Martin advises in a wide range of asset classes including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, green energy, debt, venture capital and impact. His work includes all types of investment fund structures including segregated managed accounts and investment-type securitisation structures. Finally, he advises on all fund-related ESG matters.
His advice covers the legal, regulatory and tax aspects both from a Luxembourg and German perspective.
Career
Martin is a member of different working groups of the Luxembourg fund industry association (“ALFI”). He lectures and publishes on a regular basis in commentaries and legal journals. Furthermore, he is a lecturer for tax and accounting law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Education
Martin studied law at Bucerius Law School (Hamburg) and the University of Michigan Law School (Ann Arbor). He is admitted to the Luxembourg and the German Bar. He worked for Linklaters Munich from 2011 to 2018 (including a secondment to New York) and joined the Luxembourg office of Linklaters in 2019.
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
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