Joanna is a Luxembourg investment funds and asset management partner.
Joanna’s practice spans the entire spectrum of alternative investment funds, encompassing both retail and professional fund structuring across various investment strategies including private equity, real estate, debt, infrastructure and other asset classes, as well as complex multi-tiered structures, co-investment structures and dedicated managed accounts.
Her work also includes advising on cross-border regulatory issues and strategic joint-ventures between managers.
In addition, Joanna has developed significant expertise in fund financing (including equity bridge and NAV facilities) and LP work (including due diligence and negotiations of fund terms). More particularly, she also has strong experience with onboarding financial development institutions in funds.
Joanna is noted as "technically excellent" by Legal 500.
Background
Joanna is a Luxembourg-qualified lawyer who is also admitted to the Paris bar and the New York bar.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- Tikehau Investment Management with a joint-venture between Tikehau and Altarea and the structuring and launching of a Luxembourg real estate debt fund resulting from such joint-venture*
- BNP Climate ELTIF, managed by BNPP AM, a Luxembourg infrastructure debt fund offering a comprehensive financing solution to projects and players involved in the energy transition and climate change mitigation*
- European Development Financial Institutions with several investments in underlying funds (including venture capital, infrastructure, climate change, private equity, impact funds)*
- Carmignac in the context of its strategic partnership with Clipway, a secondary firm, and its investment in the Clipway secondary fund focused on the LP-led secondary market*
- A leading private equity manager in the Emirates in the structuring of a Luxembourg private equity fund and a mezzanine fund*
- HPS on the set up of HPS Offshore Sustainability and Energy Transition Fund*
- Optimum Asset Management on the establishment of a Luxembourg fund investing in real estate in the US and Europe as well as a joint venture with Blackstone to invest in and co-manage an EUR 800m German real estate portfolio*
- Round Hill Real Estate Partners, a Luxembourg multi-compartment residential fund*
- A leading Polish asset manager with the structuring and launching of a private equity fund focused on Eastern and Central Europe*
- Scor IP with the structuring and launch of a Luxembourg multi-compartment infrastructure debt fund platform including an ELTIF 2.0 infra debt compartment*
- BNPP AM in connection with the structuring of its BNP Paribas European Infrastructure Debt Fund , involving a French master fund to address lending restrictions under French law and allow the Fund to lend directly in France*
- BNPP AM in connection with the structuring of BNPP European Special Opportunities Debt fund 2, a Luxembourg fund of debt funds*
- Schelcher Prince Gestion (now Arkéa Asset Management) with the structuring and launching of a Luxembourg multi-compartment infrastructure debt fund platform under the form of a RAIF-ELTIF and recent upgraded of the fund as an ELTIF 2.0*
- Tikehau Investment Management’s second and third vintages of Tikehau European Special Opportunities Strategy*
- A UK manager with the implementation of a Luxembourg European climate-focused growth equity fund*
*Prior to joining Herbert Smith Freehills
