Hoogewerf & Cie

Hoogewerf & Cie

Hoogewerf & Cie was established in 1970 by chartered accountant Francis Hoogewerf, whose wealth and practice originated from fiduciary and international tax advisory services. The firm operates from Luxembourg — a jurisdiction it chose decades before the Grand Duchy emerged as Europe’s dominant cross-border fund domicile — and its lineage includes Rupert Hoogewerf, son of the founder, who separately built the Hurun Report in China. The office provides concierge-level governance for internationally mobile families, relying on an affiliate network that includes Totalserve, the fiduciary business founded by partner Peter Economides. The firm executes direct co-investments and special purpose vehicles across Europe, drawing on its internal corporate finance capability to structure asset and stock acquisitions, joint ventures, and escrow arrangements. While Hoogewerf & Cie does not disclose a fund lineup, its service suite explicitly spans private equity, private credit, and real asset holdings, with an in-house Cuba/Malta desk that facilitates business into those jurisdictions. The investment posture is deal-by-deal — the firm evaluates buy- and sell-side transactions alongside clients and delivers contractual solutions rather than pooling capital into blind-pool vehicles. Team scale is lean by design. The office at 9 rue Louvigny operates with a multilingual staff spanning at least a dozen languages, and Francis Hoogewerf remains active across multiple chambers of commerce — he is a former Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce for Luxembourg, Vice President of the Armenia Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, and Head of the Diplomatic Mission for Luxembourg at the Diplomatic Council. No recent fund closes or AUM figures have been published, reflecting a private-client posture that deliberately avoids institutional-style disclosure. Structurally, Hoogewerf & Cie is not a fund manager but a family-office project advisory — a shape that separates it from the wave of Luxembourg AIFMs and ManCos that dominate the local landscape. The firm does not manufacture regulated products; instead, it sits between wealthy families and the legal, banking, and accounting infrastructure that Luxembourg provides, orchestrating tax-efficient structures, redomiciliations, and cross-border succession plans for clients who value the jurisdiction’s treaty network and investor-protection framework without needing the visible scale of a mass-affluent platform.