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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.
According to Jérôme Mullmaier and Mathilde Scheirlinck, turbulent market conditions are driving down private equity returns and hampering fundraising efforts, particularly affecting smaller/mid-market managers amidst a crowded market. This shift reflects challenges in exits and fundraising, prompting fund managers to find innovative solutions to address liquidity concerns for investors.
Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important factor in the decisions of investors, companies, consumers, shareholders and policy and law makers. The broadly supported awareness of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) objectives is reflected in many international voluntary standards as well as in an increasing number of European regulations.
Over the past few years, interest organisations are increasingly initiating court cases against various parties in order to mitigate (dangerous) climate change.
On 22 March 2024 the Luxembourg regulator (the CSSF) released its supervisory priorities in the area of sustainable finance.
