Independent Luxembourg Law Firm

Murielle has 25 years of practice covering Investment Management, Corporate, Banking and Finance. Her technical expertise and firm grasp of European & Luxembourg legal intricacies is a great asset to her client base of Luxembourg banking institutions, private equity and real estate funds managers, multinational corporations, and foreign law firms.

• Advice to fund sponsors and management company for implementation of AIFM compliant structures.

• Assistance with structuring private equity and venture capital funds: identification of appropriate Luxembourg vehicles, unregulated Soparfis or regulated vehicles such as SICARs or SIFs including, assistance in the preparation of the application file, submission to and liaising with the Luxembourg regulator (the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier), setting up the structure, drafting and review of the related documentation and agreements (private placement memorandum/prospectus, investment management agreements, custodian agreement, and administrator agreements…).

• Legal advice to sponsors and investment funds in Luxembourg: UCITs, real estate funds, debt funds, hedge funds: assistance to sponsors for the incorporation of appropriate investment funds structure from a corporate and regulatory aspects, drafting and review of agreements with service providers, legal advice in relation to management companies, fund governance, and distribution.

• Acting as Luxembourg Lender’s counsel in real estate and Private Equity financing transactions.

• Legal advice to a foreign institution in the framework of an EU program for the development of a secondary mortgage market: securitization (RMBS and CMBS) and covered bonds.

• Legal advice in both Luxembourg and foreign structured finance & securitization transactions.

• Legal advice in derivatives transactions involving a Luxembourg counterparties.

• Advisor to banks, professionals of the financial sector, insurance and reinsurance companies on regulatory matters including launch of new businesses with or without EU passport.

• Legal advice with respect to anti-money laundering, banking and professional secrecy laws and regulations.

• Legal advice regarding publicly traded companies, securities laws, and capital market regulations in Luxembourg, admission to listing and prospectus, corporate governance issues.

• Advisor in asset finance and group financing, assistance in the negotiation, drafting or reviewing of transaction documents such as loans, facility and credit agreements, pledge and security interests and related corporate documentation.

• Advisor to international groups of companies, banks and professionals of the financial sector in mergers & acquisitions transactions, assistance during the due diligence process, negotiations, drafting of agreements and issuance of legal opinions.

Education

Murielle Brouillet-McSorley

Member of the Paris Bar

Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar Liste IV

University of Paris Panthéon-Assas

Postgraduate Degree (DESS.), Litigation and Arbitration 1994

University of Paris Panthéon-Assas

Postgraduate Degree (DEA), Business and Tax Law 1993

University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas

Degree (Maîtrise), Business Law 1992

Experience

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