Patricia Volhard > Debevoise & Plimpton LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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65 GRESHAM STREET
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EC2V 7NQ
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Patricia Volhard
Work Department
Investment Management Group
Position
Patricia Volhard is a partner in Debevoise’s Frankfurt and London offices and is a member of the firm’s Private Equity and Funds/Investment Management Groups. Her practice focuses on advising private funds, including on the full range of European regulatory issues, and structuring funds for EU insurance companies and pension funds..
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.
Memberships
Ms. Volhard the former Chair of Invest Europe’s Tax, Legal & Regulatory Committee, as well as the current chair of its Financial Services/Regulatory Working Group. She is also a member of the Board of the BVK, the German private equity association, and heads its Legal Committee.
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
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory