Comparative Guide
Alternative Investment Funds
Luxembourg
Patrick Goebel & Christine Renner
Combining 'technical excellence, responsiveness, and clarity', Dechert Luxembourg provides 'practical and solutions-driven' advice to lenders and borrowers across a range of transactional and regulatory matters. A significant proportion of this is oriented around the investment management sector, including advice on fund-level financings and on financings to facilitate downstream investments. Jean-Louis Frognet is key to much of this work, as well as being skilled at advising on structured finance and DCM offerings. Laura Rossi co-heads the team with Frognet and as part of her broad finance practice regularly handles secured lending matters for banks.
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Testimonials
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- ‘What stands out most is the combination of technical excellence, responsiveness, and clarity. The lawyers are highly knowledgeable in EU and international frameworks governing securitisation, AIFs, and fund formation, yet they communicate in a way that is direct and business-oriented.'
- 'Laura Rossi is very approachable and provides high-quality legal advice on complex investment fund related matters.'
- ‘Thomas Tomasic is pragmatic and solutions oriented.’
Key clients
- Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment
- SCOR
- BNP Paribas
- Natixis
- Ares Management Limited
Work highlights
Advised BNP Paribas in connection with the €218m financing of the acquisition by Hines of four logistics properties in Paris and Lille.
Advised Natixis on the €295m financing of the off-market acquisition of Square d’Orléans, an asset located in Paris, by BauMont Real Estate Capital (BauMont), on behalf of an institutional client managed by Picture Asset Management (Picture AM).
Practice head
Jean-Louis Frognet; Laura Rossi
Other key lawyers
Marc Seimetz; Rui Cheng;Thomas Tomasic; Aurélien Martinot