Corporate and M&A.

We want to understand your business which will allow us to better address your needs and projects. Your perspective is the milestone of our tailor-made approach while offering legal services in the full spectrum of corporate work.

We assist domestic and large international public and private corporations, multinational groups, banks and financial sector professionals, as well as private equity firms and family businesses.

Our advice encompasses many different types of domestic and international transactions like acquisitions, corporate governance, joint ventures, mergers – demergers, MBO/LBO, restructurings, friendly and hostile takeovers. Additionally, we advise companies, their directors and executives regarding all corporate governance, fiduciary duty, compliance, and director and officer liability issues, as well as on matters concerning the regulation of listed companies.

Our corporate M&A team is multi-disciplinary closely working with specialists from other teams of the firm when required to offer a rapid, comprehensive and global approach. In cross-border transactions and depending on your needs, we cooperate seamlessly with lawyers from our international network of top tier law firms.

Insolvency & Restructuring.

Our multidisciplinary team stands by you, providing solution-driven support on a wide range of bankruptcy and insolvency issues.

We regularly represent clients in non-judicial debt restructurings, including the refinancing or the renegotiation of existing debt. We help them assess the strength of their security in a bankruptcy or insolvency scenario and develop innovative solutions that maximize their recovery rate.

Drawing on our experience in corporate finance, capital markets and litigation, we represent corporate debtors, lenders, receivers, directors and guarantors on:

• Restructuring of debt and loans
• Refinancing for lenders
• Debt to equity conversions
• Corporate rescue
• Asset recovery in large bankruptcies
• Distressed debts trading
• Debt collections
• Cross-border dispute resolution including forcing debtors into bankruptcy.

Private Equity.

Our lawyers advise the most prominent private equity funds worldwide and major financial institutions, representing a benchmark for private equity in Luxembourg.

We are asked to actively guide clients through successful transactions in a constantly evolving industry.

For this reason, we react rapidly and efficiently to market and regulatory changes, taking into account your specific needs and objectives.

Our team has the commitment and strong know-how to advise investors across the entire investment deal life-cycle, including:

• Due diligence and risk assessment for the purpose of acquisition
• Negotiating purchase agreements
• Setting up the legal structure
• Negotiating and structuring commercial transactions and arrangements
• Setting up legal and tax schemes in venture capital, private equity and buyout capital transactions
• Structuring equity, debt financing, takeovers, mergers, joint ventures
• Negotiating and implementing partnership agreements, shareholders’ agreements and any other fund documentation for investors and fund sponsors
• Negotiating and implementing management incentive plan
• Transfer or sale of equity investments, both on the open-market and via a listing on the stock exchange
• Structuring exit strategies, including mergers and acquisitions, trade sales and public offerings
• Shareholders’ disputes
• Coordination with other professionals in case of multi-jurisdiction transactions, notaries and banks involved in various jurisdictions.