Collective Investment Schemes in Luxembourg

Claude Kremer is a founding partner at the Luxembourg law firm Arendt & Medernach. He has devoted his whole professional career to the global fund and asset management industry. He was admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 1982 and is a non-executive board member of a number of Luxembourg investment funds established by international asset management groups. In 2005, he formed part of the EU Commission expert group on market efficiency. After serving as chairman of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) from May 2007 until June 2011, Claude was elected president of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) in June 2011. He holds Master's degrees in law and in history from the Université Pierre Mendès France de Grenoble (France) and a Master's degree in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science (U.K.). He is also a reader in fund law at the University of Luxembourg. Isabelle Lebbe is a partner at the Luxembourg law firm Arendt & Medernach, where she specialises in a wide range of investment funds with a focus on UCITS funds. She has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1999 and is an arbitrator and a member of the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI). A regular conference speaker, Isabelle is also the chairwoman of the Editing Committee of the Luxembourg Fund Review Magazine and sits on a number of committees of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) and the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the regulatory authority of the financial sector in Luxembourg. She was named "Best in Investment Funds" in Europe at the Euromoney Legal Media Group's inaugural Women in Business Law Awards 2011.