Anne-Gaëlle advises financial institutions, asset managers and investment firms (across Europe, the USA and Asia) on the establishment, structuring and reorganisation of Luxembourg regulated and unregulated investment vehicles. She has a particular focus on alternative strategies (including private equity, venture capital, real estate and debt). She advises institutional investors on due diligence aspects of their investments. Anne-Gaëlle also advises on the establishment of cross-border structures, including parallel funds and master feeder structures.
Anne-Gaëlle is recommended by The Legal 500 EMEA in 2020. She has been a panel member at various industry fora and has become a respected voice in the industry. She is a member of several associations including Women in Fund Finance, IBA and ALFI. Anne-Gaëlle also regularly hosts webinars and trainings on private equity, reserved alternative investment funds, regulatory and debt funds and is the author of a number of articles and briefings (eg. The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, Parallel Structures). She is also a regular contributor to LexNow funds database on a series of regulatory articles.
Prior to joining Ogier, Anne-Gaëlle was Counsel – Head of the Regulatory and Investment Management department of the Luxembourg office of a French law firm. She has been working in Luxembourg since 2005 with a stint in Hong-Kong and the fund structuring department of a Luxembourg bank. Anne-Gaëlle graduated with a Master in Law from the University of Louvain in Belgium with Magna Cum Laude (High Honours). She is qualified in Belgium and Luxembourg and speaks English, French, Spanish and basic Dutch.
Ogier’s Luxembourg full-service, business law firm acts for leading investment fund managers, banks, international fund promotors, private equity and venture capital houses, government authorities, public entities, corporate and institutional clients based primarily in London, Continental Europe, East Asia and North and South America.
The Luxembourg team is led by 8 partners and a team of 31 lawyers. We advise on Investment Funds, Corporate, Corporate Litigation, Banking & Finance and Tax law.
Our Luxembourg team focuses on the following core products:
• European closed-ended alternative funds in the private equity, venture, debt, real estate and infrastructure sectors
• EU portfolio acquisition, finance and holding structures
• Inbound/outbound European investment structures
• Institutional corporate financing
• Securitisation vehicles
• UCITs and Specialised Investment Funds for complex, alternative funds with hedge strategies
• Corporate and Financial Services Disputes
We understand our clients appreciate our commercially astute approach and the way we find practical solutions to their problems, including access to pioneering know-how services.
As well as being experts in, and drivers of, local Luxembourg market practice, we draw upon the expertise of our global network of offices (BVI, Cayman, Guernsey, Hong-Kong, Jersey, London, Shanghai and Tokyo) which enables us to understand global trends and the wider context of clients’ instructions.
Industry recognition
In 2021, the Luxembourg team was rated as highly commended by Leaders League in banking and finance, corporate tax, fund structuring, mergers and acquisitions and private equity.
In 2020, the Luxembourg team was part of IFLR1000, The Legal 500 and Chambers EMEA rankings.
