Bio

Benoit Dardenne advises clients on structuring and setting up regulated funds and unregulated funds with a particular focus on alternative investment funds (e.g., private equity, real estate, infrastructure, fund-of-funds, etc.). Benoit also assists clients on regulatory and corporate matters relating to the structuring and ongoing operations of funds. Benoit has significant experience in advising institutional investors in relation to their investments into closed-ended funds. Benoit advises on the establishment and licensing of alternative investment fund managers and their ongoing regulatory obligations. Benoit holds a Master of Law and a Master of Political Sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and a Master of European Law from the College of Europe (Bruges). He was admitted as Avocat á la Cour in Luxembourg in 2015. He worked for almost six years in the Luxembourg funds practice of a Magic Circle firm and two and an half year at the European Investment Bank where he gained significant experience on fund review work and negotiating equity investments into private equity and infrastructure (co-)investment structures across a wide range of jurisdictions. He joined the Luxembourg office of Van Campen Liem in 2019.