Anne-Gaëlle Delabye

Anne-Gaëlle is part of Ogier's multi-disciplinary Private Equity team. She advises financial institutions, asset managers and investment firms (across Europe, the USA and Asia) on the structuring and reorganisation of Luxembourg regulated and unregulated investment vehicles with a particular focus on alternative strategies (including private equity, venture capital, real estate and debt).

She also advises institutional investors on due diligence aspects of their investments. Lately, Anne-Gaëlle has been advising on the establishment of several cross-border structures, including parallel funds and master feeder structures.

Anne-Gaëlle specialises in all aspects of fund formation and capital raising for Luxembourg funds, with a broad experience in providing structuring advice for fund sponsors as well as LP advisory services.

Background and experience

Anne-Gaëlle has almost 20 years of experience in the legal profession. Her achievements include working on the set up of master-feeder and parallel structures for major US and UK PE and VC asset managers. She has worked with one of the world's largest independent investment management firms with over USD 1.1 trillion in client assets under management, on the establishment of a Luxembourg private equity alternative investment fund. Anne-Gaëlle also leads the Ogier's ESG initiative in Luxembourg.

Anne-Gaëlle is recommended by The Legal 500 in 2019 and 2020 and as a Key Lawyer in 2022.

She has been a panel member at various industry fora (Luxembourg Alternative Funds for Asian Initiators - a practical guide Hong Kong, June 2018; Private Credit Fund Raising – a practical guide New York, November 2018).

Anne-Gaëlle has become a respected voice in the industry and is a member of several associations including Women in Fund Finance, IBA or ALFI. She also gives training sessions at the IFE Luxembourg on aspects of Luxembourg law eg 'SCS/SCSp in practice' and is the author of a number of articles and briefings (For example, Luxembourg Ucits, Brexit, parallel funds or Luxembourg structuring).

Anne-Gaëlle is also a co-author of an article on EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the Impact on Private Fund Managers in the Investment lawyer with Stuart Fross (Foley & Lardner) and published an article in September 2021 entitled Fund Structuring Options: Using Parallel Funds to Improve Capital Formation.

Prior to joining Ogier, Anne-Gaëlle was counsel - head of the Regulatory and Investment Management department of the Luxembourg office of a French law firm. She has been working for law firms in Luxembourg since 2005 including a stint in Hong Kong and the fund structuring department of a Luxembourg bank.

Anne-Gaëlle graduated with a Master of Law from the University of Louvain in Belgium with Magna Cum Laude (High Honours). She is qualified in Belgium and Luxembourg and speaks English, French, Spanish and has some basic knowledge of Dutch.

Admitted in:                                                                    
Luxembourg - 2011 and " Avocat à la Cour " since 2014
Belgium -  2006