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Xavier Le Sourne

Elvinger Hoss Prussen

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Notable practitioner
Bar Admissions:
Luxembourg
Hong Kong (registered foreign lawyer)
Practice Areas:
Investment funds
Private equity
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
French
German
Biography

Xavier Le Sourne’s practice concentrates on investment fund structuring and collective asset management. He advises a number of regulated or non-regulated financial institutions in relation to the set-up of their Luxembourg investment funds or acquisition structures.
More particularly, Xavier advises private equity, venture capital firms and real estate sponsors willing to expand their presence in Europe.
Xavier headed our Hong Kong office as resident partner between September 2015 and June 2022.
Xavier is listed in Who’s Who Legal, Legal 500, Chambers & Partners Global and in IFLR1000.

Practice areas
  • Investment funds
  • Management companies and AIFMs
  • Private equity / Fund structuring
  • Real estate / Fund structuring
  • Regulatory and compliance
Recent transactional highlights
Bar admissions
  • Foreign Registered Lawyer with the Law Society of Hong Kong since 2015
  • Member of the Luxembourg Bar since 2005
Association memberships
  • Member of the LPEA (Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association).
  • Co-Chair of the LPEA’s Legal Committee between 2012 and 2015.
  • Member of the Real Estate Investment Funds Publications working group, the Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds sub-committee and the Hong Kong sub-committee of ALFI (Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry).
  • Member of the Regulatory Sub-Committee of the HKIFA (Hong Kong Investment Funds Association).
  • Foreign Registered Lawyer with the Law Society of Hong Kong since 2015.
Academic qualifications
  • LLM in corporate law from the Universität Bayreuth (Germany)
  • MSc in private law from the Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV (France)
Address:
Luxembourg
Tel: +352 446644 5270 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://www.elvingerhoss.lu/our-team/xavier-le-sourne

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