Claude Niedner is a Founding Partner of Arendt & Medernach and a member of the firm’s strategy board. He specialises in investment funds and works in the UCITS, hedge funds and real estate areas.

He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1993.

He is chairman of the Alternative Investments Committee of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI). Claude is also member of the Comité sur les gestionnaires de fonds d’investissement alternatifs (“Comité GFIA”) at the level of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (“CSSF”) as well as of the Alternative Investment Funds working group at the level of the Haut Comité de la Place Financière (“HCPF”) where he participates intensively in many initiatives regarding the development of the Luxembourg alternative funds sector.

Claude is a regular speaker at international conferences on investment funds related topics.

He was a lecturer in financial law at the Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg (France).

Prior to joining Arendt & Medernach, Claude Niedner worked in the capital markets department of a major Luxembourg bank.

Claude Niedner holds a Master's degree in law from the Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg (France) as well as a Master's degree in business administration from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Paris (France).

Claude Niedner holds a Master's degree in law from the Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg (France) as well as a Master's degree in business administration from the Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Paris (France).

• Private Debt Funds: CSSF Clarifies Concept of Lending to the “Public”

  By Claude Niedner, Claudia Hoffmann |June 2021

• Temporary Permissions Regime and the Brexit Deadline

  By Claude Niedner, Catherine Rasseneur |March 2019