Matthias Kerbusch is a Partner at Clifford Chance. He advises international and domestic clients on forming and restructuring Luxembourg-based investment funds as well as certain global institutions on their investment activities (LP due diligence).
He has extensive experience advising on open and closed-ended alternative investment funds, including regulated vehicles (mostly Part II Funds and ELTIF structures in light of retailisation trends in private assets) and RAIFs and other AIF structures for unregulated Luxembourg vehicles. He also advises on UCITS structures and supports Luxembourg-based AIFMs with regulatory compliance advice.
The firm's clients he advises include funds and institutions from the private equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate, banking and infrastructure sectors, as well as other alternative asset classes. He drafts and amends fund constitutive documents, such as prospectuses and LPAs, and advises on regulatory implications of fund structuring. He also advises on end-of-term restructuring solutions and secondary fund transactions.
- Structuring the first global UCITS CLO ETF for a major US asset management group (ranking second in the Innovative Lawyers Awards of the Financial Times in the category ““Innovation in Unlocking Capital”)
- Global fund counsel for several leading global institutions in the asset management industry.
- Several German institutional investors (Pensionskassen, Versorgungswerke) on the establishment of their fund vehicles in Luxembourg and the conversion of specific structures from FCPs into corporate entities as well as their due diligence work.
- Several Luxembourg AIFM entities on both day-to-day legal advice and initial approval and licensing processes.
- Advice on setting up one of the first alternative asset funds for distribution to retail investors as a Part II Fund in Luxembourg.
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, Luxembourg
- Email me
- Speaks English, German, French
Career & qualifications
- Admitted as an avocat in Luxembourg 2021
- Counsel at Clifford Chance (2012-2022)
- Partner at Dechert LLP (2022-2025)
- Partner at Clifford Chance 2026
- University College London, B.A., Political Science and Government, 2008
- Science Po Paris and The London School of Economics and Political Science, Double Master’s Degree, European Politics, 2010
- University of Saarland, LL.M., European and International Law, 2012
- University of Luxembourg, LL.M., Master en Droit et Contentieux de l’Union Européenne, 2020
- Admitted as an avocat in Luxembourg 2021
- Counsel, Clifford Chance (2012-2022)
- Partner, Dechert LLP (2022-2025)
- Partner since 2026
Awards and citations
- ''Matthias Kerbusch is very collaborative and easy to work with.' Legal 500 EMEA
- Matthias Kerbusch has been selected as one of Law.com’s Private Equity Rising Stars, for 2024 which brings together 25 of the best and brightest private equity lawyers aged under 40 from across the UK and Continental Europe.