Services
Fund Structuring
Design of fund structure
- Selecting the most suitable legal structure
- Establishing an adequate governance and management framework
- Drafting the required legal documentation
- Structuring share classes
- Drafting and negotiating agreements with service providers
- Assisting with investment rules and limitations
- Disclosure requirements
- Cross sub-fund investments
- Possibilities for the use of hedge fund-like strategies
- Depositary and prime broker issues
- Advising on compliance with all sustainability-related laws and regulations (such as SFDR
and the Taxonomy Regulation) - Legal and regulatory updates on regulatory topics such as eligible assets, Benchmark
- Regulation, marketing, liquidity management tools, performance fee disclosure, use of securities financing transactions (SFT), etc.
Product development & product change
- Prospectus changes (change of investment policy, fee changes, change of service
providers, etc.) - Advising on in and outbound relocations of investment funds
- Creation of a sub-fund
- Listing on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
- Merger of a fund or sub-fund
- Transformation of a fund into another type of fund
- Liquidation of a fund or sub-fund
- Advising on cross-border distribution matters
- Coordination with the management board and service providers
Authorisation requests
- Assisting with a fund or sub-fund approval process by the CSSF (Luxembourg regulator)
- Authorisation, notifications, and private placements / marketing procedures of Luxembourg and non-Luxembourg Funds in Luxembourg
Assisting with the selection of a fund platform, management company, AIFM, depositary bank, fund administrator, auditor, or tax counsel.
Fund Regulatory & Compliance
- Assisting with obtaining licenses and authorizations for AIFM, management companies, and for the provision of investment services and activities
- Registration of UCITS Funds and AIFMD Funds
- Advising on pre-marketing of funds
- Review of UCITS KIIDs and PRIIPS KIDs
- Compliance with AML/CTF laws and GDPR
Independent Directorship
- Directorship of investment funds
- Directorship of management companies
- Providing governance, substance and sharing experience
- Providing objective and independent oversight of the fund & management, strategy, and decision-making processes
- Ensuring oversight & control
Matthieu is a member of ILA (Institut Luxembourgeois des Administrateurs, www.ila.lu) and values ethic and professionalism.
Services On Request
- Project management
- Legal due diligence
- Specific role or project as “external in-house counsel”
- Training for Directors or staff on legal or regulatory topics, including AML for Money Laundering Responsible Officers (MLRO)