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Adrien Timmermans

Adrien is a counsel in our Luxembourg investment funds practice. He focuses on private equity, real estate, infrastructure, debt and venture capital fundraising, including the structuring, marketing and establishment of funds, as well as advising investors on their investments across a wide range of asset classes. His expertise includes structuring co-investments and bespoke solutions, including continuation funds. Adrien also leads the investor practice in Luxembourg, acting for insurance companies, corporates and sovereign wealth funds on their investment activities. · Investment Funds

Alessandra Ghezzi

Alessandra Ghezzi is a Counsel based at Linklaters' Milan offices specialized in corporate law advice to domestic and international clients, particularly on mergers & acquisitions and other extraordinary transactions. She gained nearly twenty years of experience in advising both corporate and PE clients in some of the most complex Italian M&A transactions in recent years. · Corporate / M&A

Alessandra Ortelli

Alessandra Ortelli is a counsel in the banking & finance department of our Milan office. She has extensive experience in restructurings, acquisition and leveraged finance and has advised on a number of project finance and structured finance transactions. · Banking & Finance

Alexander Schlee

Capital Markets

Alexander Vogt

Alexander Zitzl

Tax

Alice Klein

Employment

Alina Kaufmann

Corporate / M&A

An-Sofie Van Hootegem

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Andreas Dehio

Banking & Finance

Andreas Müller

Private Equity

Andreas Schaflitzl

Andreas Steck

Banking & Finance

Andreas Van Impe

Counsel · Financial Regulation

Andreas Zenner

Andrew Battisson

Litigation

Andrew L. Gaines

Head of U.S. Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits, Partner · Executive Compensation

Anke Krause

Anna Ferraresso

Anna Ferraresso is a Partner in the Structured Finance and Financial Regulation department of Linklaters' Milan offices. She has extensive experience in advising on compliance with regulatory rules (in respect of various domestic and cross-border issues), on the regulatory aspects of corporate M&A and financing transactions, on business structuring and product design. Anna has also gained deep knowledge of investment funds (AIFs and UCITS) by advising major global asset managers as well as emerging players. She advised clients on the implementation of numerous EU regulatory reforms initiatives such as AIFMD, MiFID II, CRD V/CRR II, BRRD II, Solvency II. Anna has experience of new product development and marketing, including in the fintech space, financial market infrastructure and trading issues such as market abuse and also assists clients on structured products including lending, repo transactions and ISDA documented derivatives. · Structured Finance

Annamaria Mangiaracina

Partner · Antitrust / Competition

Anne Rosenow

Anne-Sophie Vankemmelbeke

Partner · Banking & Finance

Anton Cox

Anton is a real estate lawyer who has advised on transactions in Belgium and Luxembourg since 2001. He has headed Luxembourg’s downstream real estate practice since the beginning of 2015 and was promoted to Counsel in 2017. Anton advises on the full range of issues within real estate, including incorporation and sale and purchase of real estate companies or real estate assets, real estate financing, environmental and town planning matters, litigation and structuring of projects. Anton’s practice also incorporates general commercial and contract law, construction law, agency and distribution law and projects. Anton regularly speaks at local and international industry events, including the Meetincs annual Real Estate conference where he looked at “Commercial leases” and the IFE session on Real Estate in Luxembourg. Anton moderated Linklaters Luxembourg’s first Real Estate conference, gathering over 100 guests. · Real Estate

Arnaud Coibion

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Aymeric Voisin

Aymeric Voisin is Partner in the Energy and Infrastructure practice in Paris and a Mining Sector Leader for Linklaters. He has over 18 years’ experience advising on critical minerals projects, associated infrastructure and decarbonisation transactions across Africa, Europe and Asia and is also involved in the battery value-chain. His experience also includes complex energy transition projects such as hydrogen export projects and large-scale infrastructure PPPs. Aymeric was distinguished as “Project Lawyer of the Year” in 2024 by Jeune Afrique, is included in Jeune Afrique’s 100 Legal Powerlist. Aymeric was also recognised as a “Leading Individual” (“Incontournable”) in the 2025 Leaders League Africa Desk rankings for Project Finance and Natural Resources & Renewables. · Energy & Infrastructure

Barbara Lauer

Capital Markets

Bernd Meyring

Partner, Global Head of Antitrust and Foreign Investment · Antitrust & Competition

Bertrand Andriani

Bertrand is Head of the Energy & Infrastructure department in the Paris office. He specialises in structured finance, including major project financings, leveraged finance, banking, secured and unsecured syndicated loans, derivative products, insolvency and corporate restructuring. Bertrand is also Head of the Francophone Africa Desk. · Structured Finance

Bolko Ehlgen

Bruno Derieux

Bruno advises corporates, financial sponsors and banks on a wide range of complex, cross-border corporate transactions, including public and private M&A, private equity law. · Corporate / M&A

Burkhard Rinne

Capital Markets

Carl Sanders

Private Equity

Carole Nerguararian

Carole joined the firm in 2009 as an Associate before being promoted to the position of Counsel in 2018. Carole has in-depth expertise in the French restructuring and insolvency arena. She specialises in complex domestic and cross-border restructurings, both in the framework of out-of-court and formal insolvency proceedings, where she advises all types of stakeholders. Her practice covers all aspects of financial and operational restructurings, including insolvency-related litigations. · Restructuring

Caroline Borgers

Partner · Tax

Carsten Grave

Antitrust

Catherine Kremer

Catherine has been elected Partner in May 2024 in our Luxembourg corporate practice. She has in-depth knowledge of corporate law and advises international investors, private equity houses and other financial sponsor clients in a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, co-investments, joint ventures, corporate restructurings along with management incentive schemes and governance matters. Since joining Linklaters in July 2012, Catherine spent several months in our capital markets and banking department as well as in the investment funds group, where she enriched the team with her experience in the areas of infrastructure and private equity funds. In 2023 she was seconded for 6 months to our London private equity and financial sponsors group. Catherine has built her career at Linklaters and alongside her many professional achievements she was a participant in the firm’s woman's leadership programme. She is committed to helping support and promote women throughout the firm. · Corporate / M&A

Charlotte Levin

Charlotte is a corporate partner with particular experience of advising corporates and financial institutions on a wide range of corporate transactions, including public to private transactions, IPOs and other equity capital markets transactions. She has been instructed on all sides of IPO and equity capital markets transactions, including by corporates, private equity funds, shareholders and underwriting banks. She also advises on general corporate matters including private and public M&A transactions. Learn more: Charlotte Levin | Lawyers | Linklaters · Corporate / M&A

Christian Hundeshagen

Christian Schmitt

Dispute Resolution

Christian Storck

Capital Markets

Christoph Barth

Antitrust

Christoph van Lier

Corporate / M&A

Claire Prospert

Claire is a partner in the Luxembourg investment funds group. Claire's expertise encompasses a robust suite of services within the investment funds sphere, including the sophisticated structuring of Luxembourg alternative investment funds. Her knowledge spans a variety of private market classes such as private equity, real estate, infrastructure, debt, and hedge funds. Claire's proficiency extends to developing intricate co-investment structures and crafting tailored managed account platforms, catering to the unique needs of institutional investors. She further covers fund regulatory matters and provides day-to-day assistance to asset managers, both in the regulated and unregulated investments funds sphere. Her keen insights into retail investor funds, including UCITS, UCIs and ELTIFs, position her as the legal advisor of choice for flagship funds managed by industry-leading asset managers. Claire plays a crucial role not only in supporting the firm's investment funds strategy, but also in fostering a dynamic and inclusive workplace. In her role as HR partner, she brings a keen eye for talent recruitment and a strong commitment to nurturing professional growth within Linklaters. · Investment Funds

Claudia Parzani

Specialized in corporate matters, Claudia has assisted and advised many of the most important Italian and international banks and corporates in the context of complex extraordinary transactions and currently her main focus is on strategic and corporate governance issues and ESG-linked topics. · Corporate / M&A

Cyril Abtan

Cyril is a partner in the banking practice of Linklaters in Paris notably involved in secured and unsecured syndicated loans, acquisition financings (private and leveraged) and real estate financings. · Banking & Finance

Cyril Boussion

Cyril is active in all tax aspects, both in domestic and international matters. He is especially active in M&A transactions, for listed and non-listed companies, including LBOs. Cyril also advises on the setting up of private equity and real estate investment funds. · Tax

Danelle Le Cren

Danelle is a New York law-qualified senior banking partner who splits her time between London and New York and advises on complex domestic and cross-border finance transactions, including leveraged and acquisition finance and restructuring/workout matters. She has specialist expertise in U.S. and European Term Loan B (TLB) transactions. Danelle also advises on corporate, infrastructure, asset, ECA, project and tax-based finance transactions. Danelle is also the lead U.S. relationship partner for a number of the firm’s major banking clients. Work Highlights: Danelle has led on a number of significant and complex banking transactions. Examples of her experience include advising: the initial lenders under a US$1.5 billion term loan facility to AT&T to finance the purchase of telecommunications equipment in the United States and Mexico Sibanye Gold Limited on its US$2.7 billion financing of the acquisition of Stillwater Mining Company the administrative agent for the sensor secured lender group under a US$700m loan to Atlas Resources Partners, an oil and gas company operating in the U.S. in connection with a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan and the related exit facility Steinhoff International Holdings N.V., a South African-based international retailer, on the US$4bn financing of its acquisition of U.S. retailer, Mattress Firm Holding Corp. the administrative agent for the senior secured lender group to Memorial Production Operating LLC, an oil and gas company operating in the US in connection with the restructuring of its US$925 credit facility the administrative agent on the restructuring of US$320m credit agreement for a company that operates major container terminals in the U.S. the administrative agent on a senior secured US$300m covenant-lite TLB and revolving credit facility refinancing for Hudson Products Holding, a U.S.-based manufacturer of heat exchangers the administrative agent on a senior secured US$200m of finance for H.I.G. Capital’s acquisition of ATX Networks, a developer of radio frequency and digital video processing equipment · Banking & Finance

Daniela Seeliger

Antitrust

Danièle Buchler

As a partner in the Luxembourg tax practice, Danièle assists investment managers in the set-up and tax structuring of joint venture companies and fund vehicles including on the downstream structuring across all asset classes. She also advises on the Luxembourg tax aspects of cross-border reorganisations and has significant expertise in the tax structuring of private equity transactions. Aside from her focus on funds and financial investors, Danièle advises on the various tax angles of local real estate transactions both by way of share deals and asset deals. Danièle focuses on developing our talent from an early stage in their careers, encouraging them to take part in our firmwide leadership programmes, acting as a sponsor partner as part of these programmes, and making herself available for informal advice or coaching. · Tax

Dario Longo

Dario Longo is a partner in our capital markets group at Linklaters since the establishment of the Milan office in 2007. He is the head of the structured finance and financial regulatory practices, and his practice covers the entire cycle of financial regulated assets. He regularly acts for financial sponsors and international banks on structured financed transactions, structured lending, securitization transactions, NPLs and servicing platforms, and advises on M&A transactions on regulated assets, fund formation and general financial regulations. · Capital Markets

David-Julien dos Santos Goncalves

International Trade

Dominik Wegener

Corporate / M&A

Elena Rubinov

Head of U.S. Infrastructure and Private Capital M&A, Partner · Mergers & Acquisitions

Eliane Dejardin Botelho

Eliane joined Linklaters Luxembourg’s capital markets and banking group in 2004 and was appointed as partner by the firm in May 2022. She has special expertise in regulatory matters and has been involved in a number of bank and insurance set-ups and reorganisations in Luxembourg and abroad. She regularly advises international groups active in the banking (including retail and private banking fields) and insurance businesses and is a key contributor to the development of the Linklaters Luxembourg insurance practice. Eliane has also specialist expertise in derivatives and securities financing structures for major Luxembourg banks, central securities depositories and central clearing houses. She regularly advises these entities on their product offering to clients. Among which, a number of Clearstream Banking products, such as the Clearstream Terms and Conditions for Repurchase Transactions (“CRC”), the Clearstream Terms and Conditions for Pledge Agreements (“CPC”) and the custody and margin security documents prepared in association with a major international derivatives trade association in the context of the uncleared derivatives margin implementation. She also has extensive expertise in banking matters, including credit and security taking, real estate finance as well as restructuring and enforcement of Luxembourg security interests. Eliane is also at the origin of the Linklaters Learning Hub – a training and networking hub associating young lawyers at the firm with young professionals at clients. · Banking & Finance

Elisabet Lundgren

As a corporate partner Elisabet advises corporates, financial institutions and private equity houses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and business separations. She also counsels on regulatory issues, and has experience in outsourcing and licensing. Elisabet’s extensive transactional experience spans across the technology, financial, healthcare, industrial, automotive, energy and infrastructure sectors. She has particular expertise in the technology and business services sector, and co-led the firm’s technology sector for five years. Learn more: Elisabet Lundgren | Lawyers | Linklaters · Mergers & Acquisitions

Emanuele Umberto Aurilia

Emanuele is a senior managing associate in the Investment Funds & Financial Regulation group based in Milan. He has extensive experience in relation to investment funds and related financial regulation matters, including structuring, setting-up, authorisation, restructuring and liquidation of regulated fund managers (AIFM) and alternative investment funds. He regularly provides assistance related to designing, structuring and implementation of bespoke complex and innovative regulated fund structures with real estate, credit, turnaround and private equity strategies. He also has extensive experience in financial regulation, advising on complex regulatory issues in the field of investment management, fintech, banking and insurance industry. His experience includes, inter alia, advising on authorisation of regulated entities, reorganization of financial groups, Brexit, AIFMD, MiFID II, ESG legislation, PSD II, CRR, prudential regulation, anti-money laundering/ anti-terrorism legislation, change in control, reorganisations, outsourcing as well as conduct of business rules. Furthermore, he regularly assists financial institutions and sponsors in connection with any regulatory aspect of M&A/Capital markets/banking transactions as well as ordinary and extraordinary transactions involving financial industry-specific regulations. · Investment Funds

Eric Pottier

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Ettore Consalvi

Ettore has significant experience advising leading financial institutions and corporate clients on a broad range of domestic and cross‑border financing transactions, both on the lender and borrower side. His practice covers the full spectrum of financing products, including leveraged and acquisition finance, unitranche facilities, high‑yield financings, corporate lending, structured finance, global banking transactions and real estate financing. Ettore has also substantial experience in special situations and R&I, advising both creditors and debtors in out-of-court workouts, distressed debt restructurings and formal insolvency proceedings. He regularly counsels clients on risk analysis, contingency planning and strategies for value recovery in both solvent and insolvent scenarios. · Banking & Finance

Evita Bassot

Counsel · Corporate / M&A

Fabio Balza

Fabio Balza is a Counsel of Linklaters Milan tax department. He joined Linklaters in January 2020. Fabio regularly advises on Italian tax aspects of M&A and private equity deals following all Italian tax aspects including tax due diligence, structure memorandum, negotiation of tax clauses of transaction and finance documents and assistance in post-closing reorganizations. Fabio also advises on the Italian tax aspects of real estate, financing and refinancing transactions including management incentive plans, tax audits and tax litigation. Before joining Linklaters Fabio was responsible of the tax department in the Milan office of an international law firm. · Tax