Patrick Goebel

Patrick Goebel advises on all types of retail and private Luxembourg investment funds, including UCITS and AIFs, investing in private equity and venture capital, private debt (including loan origination), real estate, infrastructure or other type of assets including crypto assets. He also assists investors on their investments in Luxembourg investment funds, including due- diligence and negotiation of investment terms.

Mr. Goebel furthermore advises on the establishment, the restructuring and on other legal and regulatory aspects of management companies, AIFMs (including EuVECA managers), investment firms (MiFID) and financial service providers such as depositaries and administrators. He also assists on the due-diligences relating to the acquisitions of managers and financial service providers and leads in this respect the change-of-control application with the Luxembourg regulator.

Mr. Goebel is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer for investment funds in Luxembourg by the leading legal directories, Chambers Europe and The Legal 500 EMEA. Most recently, in the 2024 edition of Chambers Europe he is lauded for being “responsive and knowledgeable”. The Legal 500 EMEA 2024 edition comments that “Patrick Goebel is very hard-working and extremely professional. We specifically appreciate his wide knowledge combined with pragmatism. He shows a lot of patience with newcomers on the market who want to set up their first product in Luxembourg and require a lot of guidance and hand-holding”.

Mr. Goebel regularly speaks at conferences on various fund-related and manager-related matters. He is a lecturer on civil liability at the University of Luxembourg and an adjunct lecturer at the School of International Financial Services (SIFS).

Mr. Goebel started his career in the financial services industry in 1998 before becoming a lawyer in 2007. He is with Dechert since 2012.