Lawyers in Luxembourg

Bertrand Geradin

Partner

Ogier

Bob Calmes

Partner

55LEGAL

Bob Scharfe

Bob Scharfe is the Managing Partner and heads the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets practice of Luther’s Luxembourg office. He advises banks, multi-national corporations, and private equity firms on a wide range of banking and financing matters, capital markets, structured finance, securitisation and insolvency law aspects, and structuring private equity investments through Luxembourg. He also has solid experience in general corporate law.

Luther S.A.

Bruno Gasparotto

Bruno Gasparotto is a Principal in the Tax Law practice of Arendt & Medernach where he specialises in VAT law, advising on both national and international issues where he focuses on the VAT aspects of financial transactions involving amongst others banks, SOPARFIS, investment funds and real estate companies. He also has extensive knowledge in the fields of industry, trading, retail and information technologies.

Arendt & Medernach

CHRISTOPHER S. MCKENZIE

Investment Funds Asset Management and Corporate

Deynecourt

Camille Saettel

Counsel

Simmons & Simmons in Luxembourg

Capucine Falgareiro Douchet

Capucine Falgareiro Douchet is a member of the Dispute Resolution practice of Luther’s Luxembourg office. She focuses on advising local and international clients on civil, commercial and administrative litigations cases.

Luther S.A.

Carlos Morales Ribas

Principal

TS&P

Carmine Reho

Carmine is a real character with a striking ability to think outside the box. Clients rely on his 20 years of experience for receiving legal and practical advice on investment funds, regulatory, compliance, capital markets, securitisation and corporate matters. Carmine worked as a lawyer in Luxembourg and abroad. He also gained extensive experience working as in-house legal and compliance officer for a large asset manager. His insight and understanding of international business and best practices is highly valued by his clients who are investment firms, asset managers, regulated and non-regulated fund and private equity firms.

Brouxel & Rabia Luxembourg Law Firm

Carole Rhein

DLA Piper Luxembourg

Caroline Notté

Partner

NautaDutilh

Caroline Pimpaud

DLA Piper Luxembourg

Carsten Opitz

Carsten Opitz is a Partner in both the Private Equity & Real Estate and the Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions practices of Arendt & Medernach. He specialises in corporate law, advising primarily international companies, large private equity and real estate funds in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, complex international corporate restructurings, corporate finance and transactional business law.

Arendt & Medernach

Catherine Baflast

Catherine is the partner leading the Corporate practice of Stellan Partners (Luxembourg) and has an extensive experience in advising private equity clients in the setting-up, acquisition or sale of investments structures, targets or joint ventures. Her practice covers a broad spectrum of corporate and transactional matters involving both international and domestic real estate deals as well structuring, financing of leverage and management buy-out transactions, domestic and cross-border mergers, corporate reorganisations, management teams and corporate governance matters. Catherine is also well versed in assisting operational companies running their activities in Luxembourg.

Stellan Partners

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.

Linklaters

Catherine Martougin

Catherine Martougin is a partner in the Funds & Asset Management team of the Baker McKenzie Luxembourg office. She has more than 20 years' experience in business law. Prior to joining the Firm, she practiced in elite international law firms in Paris and Luxembourg. Catherine represents asset managers of private equity funds, real estate funds, debt and infrastructure funds and other financial institutions. She works on a range of corporate and commercial transactions, including organizational structuring and related regulatory matters (notably AIFs and AIFMs), as well as initial fund formation, complex restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, asset dispositions, secondary trades, capital raisings, real estate investments, venture capital investments, and joint venture arrangements.

Baker McKenzie

Catherine Pogorzelski

DLA Piper Luxembourg

Cathrine Foldberg Møller

Cathrine is a partner and leads the Luxembourg regulatory practice. She has a broad range of experience advising clients on Luxembourg and European financial services regulation. She advises financial institutions, insurance companies, FinTechs including cryptoasset services providers and other professionals of the financial sector on their regulatory work. Her background as a transactional lawyer has helped her to gain a deeper understanding of clients’ products and services and the practical aspects of their business. Her experience covers financial services ranging from traditional banking, payment services, investment activities as well as product regulation and financial promotion. She is known to deliver pragmatic and practical advice tailored to the clients’ set-up and operations. Cathrine contributes to the Simmons & Simmons Navigator service and Crypto Reviewer and works extensively on cross-border licensing matters. She advises on market players’ continuing obligations and compliance with regulatory requirements in connection with MiFID, transparency, market abuse, EMIR, prospectus matters as well as ESG regulatory requirements. Due to the nature of her work she is in regular contact with the local regulators and monitors closely any market and legal developments, helping clients anticipate and navigate regulatory change. She is fluent in five languages and serves clients on an ongoing basis in all of them. She is involved in teaching and often publishes on technical subjects in legal journals. Cathrine is also involved in ESG matters and is a member of the board of the Luxembourg Capital Markets Association.

DLA Piper Luxembourg

Cedric Bless

Partner

AKD

Cees-Frans Greeven

Cees-Frans Greeven, partner and lawyer at BUREN, focuses on advising clients on the Dutch and Luxembourg aspects of corporate and PEVC transactions, including spin-offs, international restructurings and corporate joint ventures. Cees-Frans also works with institutional and private clients on issues related to investment management.

Buren

Chan Park

Chan Park is Avocat à la Cour, and a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 2014. He is a Partner at MOLITOR and is in charge of the firm’s Corporate and M&A practice group.

MOLITOR Avocats à la Cour SARL

Charles-Henri Laevens

Charles-Henri is a Senior Associate in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice of Clifford Chance's Luxembourg office. He specialises in intellectual property and information technology with a particular focus on data protection and privacy. Acting for banks and other professionals of the financial sector, insurance companies as well as commercial and industrial companies.

Clifford Chance

Charlotte Chen

Partner

Elvinger Hoss Prussen

Cheikh Ndiaye

Counsel

Elvinger Hoss Prussen