Julien Schraub

Julien is a Partner in Goodwin’s Luxembourg tax practice. He advises clients on all aspects of Luxembourg income tax law, with a particular focus on the fund industry and corporate taxation.

He has significant experience working with asset managers in the private equity, real estate, and debt sectors, assisting them in the establishment of Luxembourg regulated and non-regulated investment platforms. His practice includes advising on the structuring of intermediate holding companies, financing arrangements, management incentive plans, and co-investment programs.

Julien’s recent experience includes representation of:

• TA Associates on its fundraising for TA XIV with total commitments at the hard cap of $12.5bn
• Bregal Investments on the fundraising of Bregal Unternehmerkapital IV raising €2.65bn
• BentallGreenOak on the fundraising of GreenOak Europe Core Plus Logistics and its flagship European equity fund I-IV, with fund IV raising €1.46bn and an additional €520m in co-investment capital  
• Tikehau Capital on their real estate joint venture with Forte Capital Deutschland GmbH on the acquisition of a German residential portfolio, development aspects and its financing
• Tikehau Capital on their real estate joint venture with Cresco Real Estate for a Berlin asset acquisition and associated project development aspects
• Medical Properties Trust, on the tax aspects of a 50/50 joint venture between Medical Properties Trust and Praemia REIM, as it entered into a 10 year, non-amortizing €702.5m facility agreement  
• TA Associates, a leading global private equity firm focused on scaling growth in profitable companies, on the tax aspects of the financing of the acquisition of Harvest France SAS
• Assisted a global real estate development group for the launch of a Luxembourg club deal investment platform aiming at investing in energy positive buildings and towers across Europe*
• Assisted a real estate investment fund with a complex acquisition of a unique large scale mixed-use portfolio of 24 real estate assets located in Italy held by two Italian real estate Investment funds*
• Assisted a real estate investment advisor in the setting-up of a Luxembourg investment fund whose main objective is to provide limited partners with superior risk-adjusted returns through investments in equity or debt instruments with respect to real estate assets including single assets, portfolios of assets and operating companies*
• Assisted a global asset manager it in the on-shoring of a Cayman investment fund to Luxembourg under the form of a common limited partnership qualifying as an alternative investment fund and aiming at investing in private equity assets*
• Assisted a global asset manager for the launch of a Luxembourg investment fund investing in renewable energy infrastructure assets and platform developing assets in Europe*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin

Before joining Goodwin, Julien spent thirteen years at Baker McKenzie in Luxembourg where he was counsel during two years, and prior to that was a tax advisor at EY Luxembourg for two years.

Julien was recognized as a “Key Lawyer” by Legal 500.

Co-Author, “Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds: Tax Developments to look out for (May 2024),” Goodwin Alert, May 2024