Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra

Dr. Sebastiaan Hooghiemstra is a senior associate and member of the investment management practice of Loyens & Loeff. He assists assets managers, fund promoters and institutional investors with the structuring and setting up of Luxembourg regulated and unregulated (alternative) investment fund structures.

He has a strong background in financial regulatory law and advises fund/asset managers, distributors and other financial institutions on various fund-related regulatory matters, including but not limited to licensing aspects, M&A transactions involving licensed institutions, anti-money laundering, sustainable finance and DLT aspects.

Sebastiaan is a Senior Research Fellow and lecturer on investment fund regulation at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

He regularly speaks at conferences and frequently publishes on investment fund law topics, including, amongst others, the following books:

• Depositaries in European Investment Law – Towards Harmonization in Europe (Eleven International Publishing 2018);
• Koersen door de Wet op het financieel toezicht – Deel III – Beleggingsinstellingen en icbe’s (BJU 2020); and as a co-author
• The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive – European Regulation of Alternative Investment Funds (Kluwer 2012/2015/2020).

He is also the author of the Luxembourg Fund Law Compendium (Legitech 2021) and a regular contributor to AGEFI Luxembourg.

Sebastiaan has advised over the past 12 years various public institutions on policy issues related to financial regulatory law including: the European Commission, EIOPA, ESMA, the Liechtenstein government and Financial Market Authority, the Dutch Ministry of Finance and the Dutch Financial Market Authority.