Johan Terblanche
Managing Partner
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.
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