Lawyers in Luxembourg

Marie Romero

Marie Romero is a Counsel of the Dispute Resolution practice at Luther’s Luxembourg office. Marie focuses on advising local and international clients on civil, commercial, and administrative litigation cases. She has also gained experience in arbitration, tax disputes, and real estate and construction law.

Luther S.A.

Marie Sinniger

Following 15 years’ experience in the Luxembourg employment market, Marie joined Linklaters in October 2023 as Luxembourg’s Head of Employment. She brings specialist expertise in Mergers & Acquisitions along with extensive professional experience in both contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Marie advises on all aspects of employment law from drafting and terminating contracts to cross-border issues, collective bargaining, social audits and remuneration and incentive plans. Marie possesses extensive expertise in pay transparency, bolstered by her deep market understanding through active involvement in trade associations. As a member of Luxembourg’s Bankers’ Association (ABBL) and its Social Affairs Committee, as well as her role in the ABBL working group on the Pay Transparency Directive, she provides valuable insights and strategic guidance in her advisory role. Other areas of expertise include collective and individual dismissals, implementation of codes of conduct and internal policies. Marie also represents employers in a wide range of employment law disputes.

Linklaters

Marie-Paule GILLEN

Partner - Avocat à la Cour

DSM Avocats à la Cour

Mario Di Stefano

Managing Partner - Avocat à la Cour and Rechtsanwalt

DSM Avocats à la Cour

Marion Lanne

Marion Lanne is a Counsel and a member of the Banking, Finance & Capital Markets practice at Luther’s Luxembourg office. She focuses on a wide range of banking, finance and capital markets matters. She has also gained sound experience in insurance and regulatory matters.

Luther S.A.

Martin Mager

Martin is a partner in the Luxembourg investment funds group. He has specialised experience with regard to the structuring, establishment and ongoing advice of alternative investment funds (sponsor practice) as well as advising institutional investors with regard to investments in international fund structures (investor practice). Martin advises in a wide range of asset classes including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, green energy, debt, venture capital and impact. His work includes all types of investment fund structures including segregated managed accounts and investment-type securitisation structures. Finally, he advises on all fund-related ESG matters. His advice covers the legal, regulatory and tax aspects both from a Luxembourg and German perspective.

Linklaters

Martin Wurth

Martin Wurth is a Partner in the Global Financial Markets practice of Clifford Chance’s Luxembourg office. He specialises in structured finance, asset finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance and bank lending in cross border and local transactions, with a particular focus on financings to Luxembourg investment funds (subscription/equity bridge or NAV facilities). Martin is also a regular contributor to legal journals and is a regular speaker at Fund Finance Association conferences.

Clifford Chance

Martine Gerber-Lemaire

Martine Gerber-Lemaire is the managing partner of Dentons’ Luxembourg office and the head of the Luxembourg Real Estate practice. Having assisted a clientele of domestic and international companies including institutional investors, promoters and sellers, Martine focuses on all types of real estate transactions for Luxembourg based properties including acquisitions, disposals, financings, developments, building renovations, property management and leasing, amongst others. She has particular experience with acquisitions and disposals, funding and investment and advising on regulated and unregulated real estate investment vehicles. Martine is recognized as a deal maker and for her deep knowledge of the Luxembourg real estate market. With sound experience in European Insolvency law, Martine also focuses on workouts and turnarounds, corporate and debt restructurings, pre-insolvency issues, directors’ liability, bankruptcy proceedings, and complex cross-border insolvencies. In addition, Martine has particular capabilities in assisting on issues related to shift of the Center of Main Interests (COMI).

Dentons

Mathieu Gangloff

Mathieu provides a range of legal advisory services in the field of Luxembourg corporate law to both private and corporate clients, including private equity, real estate, investment funds and other Luxembourg structures.

Mourant

Mathieu Laurent

Mathieu Laurent is a Partner of the Corporate/M&A practice and heads the Dispute Resolution practice at Luther's Luxembourg office. Mathieu focuses on private equity transactions, real estate transactions, and corporate acquisitions. He has extensive experience in advising on the structuring of unregulated funds, the performance of corporate due diligence, the negotiation of share purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements, financing agreements (bank facilities, intra-group loans, issuance of bonds, hybrid instruments), security documents, and guarantees. He also specializes in shareholders' disputes, corporate insolvency, group refinancing and restructuring, and IP structures.

Luther S.A.

Mathieu Volckrick

Mathieu Volckrick is the managing partner of the firm’s Luxembourg office. He has over 17 years of professional experience in the Luxembourg asset management, banking and financial services industries. Mathieu has considerable experience advising asset managers and other fund initiators with the design, regulatory approval, marketing, restructuring, and voluntary liquidation of their investment products, including the full range of Luxembourg regulated and unregulated alternative investment funds, club deals and private funds, investing in all major alternative asset classes. Mathieu assists his clients on all aspects of local and cross-border real estate and private equity transactions and has substantial experience leading complex cross-border due diligence investigations, drafting and negotiating transaction and finance documents, and implementing security packages. He regularly advises banks and investment firms on the foreseeable impacts of major regulatory changes on their products/ services ranges, marketing and distribution strategy, as well as their operating model.

K&L Gates Volckrick

Mathilde Lattard

For more information, please click the following link: Mathilde Lattard | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)

Loyens & Loeff

Matthias Kerbusch

Matthias Kerbusch is a Partner at Clifford Chance. He advises international and domestic clients on forming and restructuring Luxembourg-based investment funds as well as certain global institutions on their investment activities (LP due diligence). He has extensive experience advising on open and closed-ended alternative investment funds, including regulated vehicles (mostly Part II Funds and ELTIF structures in light of retailisation trends in private assets) and RAIFs and other AIF structures for unregulated Luxembourg vehicles. He also advises on UCITS structures and supports Luxembourg-based AIFMs with regulatory compliance advice. The firm's clients he advises include funds and institutions from the private equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate, banking and infrastructure sectors, as well as other alternative asset classes. He drafts and amends fund constitutive documents, such as prospectuses and LPAs, and advises on regulatory implications of fund structuring. He also advises on end-of-term restructuring solutions and secondary fund transactions.

Clifford Chance

Matthieu De Donder

Matthieu De Donder is admitted as Avocat with the Brussels Bar and registered as a foreign lawyer on list IV of the Luxembourg Bar. He is a Partner at MOLITOR, in the Corporate and M&A department.

MOLITOR Avocats à la Cour SARL

Matthieu Taillandier

Matthieu Taillandier is a Partner in both the Bank Lending & Structured Finance practice and the Capital Markets practice of Arendt & Medernach.

Arendt & Medernach

Maude Royer

For more information, please click the following link: Maude Royer | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)

Loyens & Loeff

Max Kremer

Max Kremer is a Partner in the Private Clients practice of Arendt & Medernach.

Arendt & Medernach

Maxime Bertomeu-Savalle

Maxime is a counsel in the Luxembourg corporate/M&A group. He joined the firm in 2010, was seconded to the litigation group of our Luxembourg office in 2012 and to the financial sponsors practice of our London office in 2014. He advises clients on wide a range of corporate matters, with a particular expertise in private M&A, joint ventures and group restructuring. He has experience on working on the sale or acquisition of regulated businesses in Luxembourg. Maxime gained specific expertise in advising financial sponsors on all Luxembourg corporate aspects, including initial investment, structuring, exit and portfolio assistance. He regularly advises clients on complex cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters. Maxime also recently advised on the set-up of special purpose acquisition vehicles (SPACs), their listing on a regulated market and business combinations with targets of different industries (de-SPAC transactions).

Linklaters

Melinda Perera

Melinda joined Linklaters Luxembourg in 2003, was promoted to partner in 2017 and since May 2022, has been appointed as head of the capital markets and banking practice of Linklaters Luxembourg. Melinda specialises in capital markets (debt instruments and securitisation notably), finance and restructuring matters. Melinda’s banking practice includes advising on fund financing, syndicated lending, investment grade, margin loan and leveraged acquisition finance, asset finance, real estate finance and distressed debt acquisitions. She has special expertise in restructuring and insolvency and has played a major role in complex cross border restructurings, special situations and insolvency matters, offering technical expertise, commercial judgment and strategic advice to help clients achieve practical outcomes. She has experience of advising on multi-disciplinary and cross-border real estate finance transactions in the most demanding circumstances.

Linklaters

Melody Brunot

DLA Piper Luxembourg

Menno Maat

For more information, please click the following link: Menno Maat | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)

Loyens & Loeff

Mevlüde-Aysun TOKBAG

Partner in Banking and Finance, Investment funds, head of German Desk

KLEYR GRASSO

Michael Scott

For more information, please click the following link: Michael Scott | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)

Loyens & Loeff

Michal Stepien

DLA Piper Luxembourg