Private Equity & Funds
The success of your private equity fund and your investments is highly dependent on compliance with increasingly stringent and ever-changing legal and tax regulations. Whether you are a private equity or venture capital fund manager, a professional investor or a high-net-worth entrepreneur, you can rely on Loyens & Loeff's Private Equity team, made up of highly specialised lawyers, tax advisors and notaries, who advise on the most complex and challenging transactions.

We are one of the largest independent law firms in continental Europe. Our Private Equity practice is consistently ranked as top tier in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland, where we operate.
Our Private Equity teams in Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg and Zürich are made up of highly specialised lawyers, tax advisors and notaries who advise on the most complex and challenging transactions.
Our practice covers the whole life cycle of funds. From formation, structuring, investments, financing, exits and continuation to winding up.
Our clients are at the forefront of the Private Equity industry. They value the knowledge and practical approach that are part of our firm culture across practices and jurisdictions.
We are recognized as among the best Private Equity lawyers in our jurisdictions by investors, sponsors, financers and the leading law firms that work with us. Our track record also demonstrates the depth and extent of our client relationships.

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor in the decisions of investors, companies, consumers, shareholders and policy- and lawmakers.
Sustainability has been a key concern for the EU for many years. It has put a lot of effort into developing tools to increase transparency of companies on the sustainability implications of their activities. This has led to significant EU legislation
How we can help
To help you achieve your business goals, our dedicated team of lawyers, civil-law notaries and tax advisers will assist you with all legal and tax aspects of the entire life cycle of a private equity fund, including:
Fund structuring, formation and fundraising
- Designing private equity and venture capital fund structures
- Creating state of the art carried interest and other incentive structures including obtaining advance tax confirmations (rulings)
- Drafting and negotiating fund agreements between fund managers and investors, specific arrangements with cornerstone investors, co-investment agreements, and related documentation
Fund operations and regulatory aspects
- Regulatory procedures and advice (AIFMD, MIFID, FATCA, CRS, etc.)
- Continued compliance throughout the fund’s lifecycle
- Analysis of, and dealing with anti-trust authorities
Acquisition finance and fund finance
- Structuring and negotiating on: (i) financing of an acquisition, (ii) refinancing, and (iii) recapitalisations
- Setting-up bankable structures (taking into account needs of either banks or credit funds for senior, junior or mezzanine debt)
- Assisting and organising the process on raising debt
- Structering and negotiating on: (i) subscription line financing and (ii) other (long term) fund financing
Acquisition and structuring of investments
- Legal and tax structuring of the acquisition and financing
- Purchaser or vendor legal and tax due diligence
- Drafting and negotiating of investments in portfolio companies and add on acquisitions
- Incorporating special fund vehicles
- Warranty and indemnity insurance policies
Structuring management or employee participation plans
- Structuring management or employee participation plans
- Designing buyout structures and management equity participation programmes
Exit strategies and disposal of portfolio companies
- Sale of portfolio companies, in bespoke one-on-one processes, controlled auction processes, IPOs or dual track procedures
- Drafting and negotiating of add on acquisitions and divestments for portfolio companies
Liquidation of a fund
- Exit preparations
- Winding up of the fund