Often working in a cross-office, multidisciplinary fashion, the ‘highly knowledgeable and responsive’ team at Linklaters provides ’creative, yet pragmatic solutions’ to institutional firm-wide clients on the Luxembourg-related tax structuring aspects associated with a myriad multi-jurisdictional matters. The alternative funds space remains a very fertile source of work, with ‘very proactive and knowledgeable’ team head Joakim-Antoine Charvet excelling in handling tax-related matters for private equity funds, running the gamut from advice on M&A matters, portfolio restructuring, and JV structuring. Danièle Buchler is also very active within the private capital sphere and also often handles the tax aspects of share and asset real estate transactions.
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Testimonials
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- 'On top of their excellent technical capabilities, they also excel in project management for cross border teams.'
- 'Joakim-Antoine Charvet is very proactive and knowledgeable.'
- 'Joakim-Antoine Charvet and Cyrielle Nis have consistently displayed an amazing client service mindset, coupling excellent technical skills with humility and highest standards of integrity.'
- 'Danièle Buchler - beyond her technical expertise and ability to solve the problem at hand creatively and swiftly, she is pleasant to work with and able to break down complex issues into digestible pieces.'
- 'Excellent professionals, with understanding of our business.'
- 'The tax team is very supportive and collaborative.'
- 'They have in depth knowledge of the market, our industry and related challenges, and the ability to design and enable the execution of tailor-made solutions.'
- 'Highly knowledgeable and responsive; able to develop creative, yet pragmatic solutions.'
Key clients
- Triton Partners
- Feldberg Capital UK Limited
- Montagu Private Equity
- Macquarie Private Credit team
- Ardian
- Ares Capital Corporation
- Incus Capital
- Carlyle
- Intu properties
- Vesper Infrastructure Partners
- DigitalBridge
Work highlights
Acted as Luxembourg tax advisor for the setting-up and the fund raising of the ninth generation of ARDIAN’s secondary fund of funds, the largest-ever Secondary Private Equity Fund, with a volume of $30bn, including negotiation of side letters.
Acted as Luxembourg tax advisor to Vesper Infrastructure Partners in relation to the tax aspects connected with the fundraising of Vesper Next Generation Infrastructure Fund I SCSp, a Luxembourg based fund focusing on investing in decarbonised, connected, and sustainable infrastructure assets.
Advised Macquarie Asset Management on the launch of its first European direct lending strategy – an expansion of the firm’s private credit offering. Macquarie Direct Lending Europe SCSp, is a European focused direct lending fund and is the first in Macquarie’s rapidly expanding product offering in this space.
Practice head
Joakim-Antoine Charvet
Other key lawyers
Danièle Buchler; Adrien Piron; Cyrielle Nis