Banking and Insurance
Our banking team advises our clients on all types of regulatory issues relating to their business activity and assists them in all their dealings with the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). In this context, our lawyers pride themselves on having been involved in the setting up of a significant number of banks and professionals of the financial sector. In the private banking field, our lawyers advise financial institutions on all legal aspects relating to their dealings with their customers and their professional counter-parties, including in the drafting of all types of contractual documents and the handling of customer complaints. We have a long standing expertise in all M&A transactions relating to the business of financial institutions. Our teams have also developed considerable expertise in handling complex financial litigation and insolvency law issues.
Our capital markets team advises clients on both equity and debt transactions. We have represented corporate, institutional, supranational and sovereign issuers in a wide range of transactions including IPOs, takeovers, public offerings, private placements, stand alone Eurobonds, structured notes and certificates, exchange offers and applications for listing and admission to trading on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. We advise on all aspects of regulatory compliance including regulatory filing, disclosure obligations and corporate governance issues. The team also has leading expertise in all aspects of clearing and settlement of securities and cash transactions.
Our bank lending and structured finance team advises local and international lenders and arrangers on the structuring, restructuring and documenting of domestic and cross-border financing arrangements. Our lawyers have experience in areas across the whole range of the credit spectrum including leveraged finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance and asset finance. Our team members have developed a long standing expertise in the setting up of all types of collateral arrangements and in collateral enforcement. Our structured finance team handles all types of domestic and multi-jurisdictional securitisation and repackaging transactions and programmes, as well as other structured products and complex financing transactions, relying on a substantial expertise and experience in this field combined with a business oriented and innovative approach.
Our insurance team advises insurance and reinsurance companies as well as insurance intermediaries on all regulatory matters relevant to their businesses, both local and cross-border. This includes licence applications, passporting rules, launching of new insurance products, portfolio transfers, investment rules and distribution agreements. Our insurance lawyers have further acquired considerable expertise in the M&A activity relating to the insurance and reinsurance businesses, as well as in the liquidation of insurance and reinsurance companies.
The size and expertise of our Banking and Insurance group makes us the largest legal team and the market leader in Luxembourg as regularly released by the legal league tables.
