Johan Terblanche
Managing Partner
- Luxembourg
Areas of Expertise
Johan is Managing Partner of Maples and Calder (Luxembourg) at the Maples Group, where he is head of the Luxembourg Funds & Investment Management team. Johan focusses on fund structuring / formation and regulated financial business for the majority of his career. He advises managers and investors of collective investment funds, with a particular focus on alternative funds (including private equity, debt, infrastructure, real estate and hedge funds) and their management entities. He also has expertise in AI technologies as they apply to the financial and investment management sectors.
Johan joined the Maples Group in 2018. He was previously a partner in the Financial Services and Investment Management group at Dechert. Prior to that, Johan was a partner in the investment management practice of an international firm headquartered in the Netherlands. Johan has been recognised as a ‘highly regarded’ lawyer by IFLR1000 and a ‘leading individual’ by Legal500.
Member of the Association for the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI)
Member of the Luxembourg Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LPEA)
Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
Bar Admissions
2000 – Admitted as an attorney in South Africa (not practising)
2002 – Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales (not practising)
2003 – Admitted as a solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (British Virgin Islands) (not practising)
2008 – Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar
Education
University of the Free State, South Africa, LL.B., 1999
University of the Free State, South Africa, B.Proc., 1997
TEP, 2004
Languages
English
Afrikaans
French