Ms Patricia Volhard > Debevoise & Plimpton LLP > Frankfurt, Germany > Lawyer Profile
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Offices
TAUNUSTURM, TAUNASTOR 1
60310 FRANKFURT AM MAIN
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Ms Patricia Volhard
Position
Patricia Volhard is a partner in Debevoise’s Frankfurt and London offices, and is a member of the firm’s Investment Management Group. Her practice focuses on advising private funds on a range of regulatory issues.
Languages
Ms. Volhard speaks fluent German, French and English.
Memberships
Ms. Volhard is one of Europe’s leading private funds regulatory lawyers, and has played a prominent role in the ongoing development of the area, in part through involvement in Invest Europe (formerly the European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association). She is the former chair of its Tax, Legal & Regulatory Committee, as well as the current chair of its Financial Services/Regulatory Working Group. Ms. Volhard is also a member of the legal committee of BVK, the German private equity association.
Education
Ms. Volhard studied law in Saarbrücken, Frankfurt/Main, Strasbourg, and economics at the London School of Economics, where she obtained her LL.M. in 1999.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
Clare Swirski
, who acts for insurers and other financial institutions on a broad range of transactional and regulatory mandates, jointly leads the team at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
alongside Patricia Volhard, who splits her time between the firm’s London and Frankfurt offices and focuses on EU regulatory issues. Key clients include UK, EU and US-based fund managers, investment managers and insurers.
Germany > Banking and finance > Investment funds
(Hall of Fame)Debevoise & Plimpton LLP specialises in advising on German and Luxembourg fund structures as well as European regulatory law and has a strong focus on the private equity market. The team covers fund sales as well as sustainability-related disclosure matters. Practice head Patricia Volhard travels between the London, Paris, Luxembourg and Frankfurt locations and international counsel Jin-Hyuk Jang is well versed in regulatory matters, including the management and sale of private funds as well as fund structuring. Volhard complements this with ESG-related expertise and her qualification as a French lawyer, thus she routinely covers cross-border matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame Germany > Banking and finance > Investment funds
- Investment funds Germany > Banking and finance