The 2022 edition of the Legal 500 EMEA guide is out. We are pleased to announce that CMS Luxembourg have been ranked Tier 2 and Tier 3 across six practices. We would particularly like to thank our clients for putting their trust in us!
Banking and Finance | Tier 3
Benefiting from increased local bench strength, as a result of a targeted hiring strategy, CMS has ‘the right technical expertise to assist in any kind of matter, irrespective of its complexity’ and now has the critical domestic resources to match that of many of its other key European international offices. Cross-border work is therefore naturally a key strength and in this regard the firm is able to provide a one-stop-shop service and an ability to ‘look after the interests of parties in a uniform manner’. Key to the team’s growing success is the expertise of team head Vivian Walry, who is noted for his ‘very clear business-oriented approach’.
Recognised Lawyers
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Senior Counsel | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Corporate/M&A | Tier 3
Leveraging the firm’s rapidly growing local investment funds offering, as well as its broader global institutional ties in the asset management space, CMS has been particularly effective on behalf of a growing roster of private equity firms on their cross-border M&A mandates. ‘Very resourceful‘ team head Gérard Maîtrejean has an ‘ability to think outside the box’, and to provide ‘innovative solutions‘ to clients which often implement an integrated solution drawing upon practitioners from across the firm’s broad international network.
Recognised Lawyers
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Investment Funds | Tier 2
Now with more than 20 lawyers focused on funds-related work, CMS has the critical mass to handle a tremendous range and volume of work and is one of the fastest growing teams in the country. Focused across the panoply of alternative asset classes – including novel ones such as digital assets – the team excels at advising international clients seeking to establish an investment fund presence in Luxembourg and leveraging its vast international network is able to effectively advise on cross-border fund structuring, as well as regulatory and tax issues. ‘One of the rare lawyers who combines an ability to legally innovate and implement the innovation’, team head Aurélien Hollard has been pivotal to the firm’s success and is chiefly responsible for the firm’s prowess at advising on fund tokenisation and is recognised as ‘a visionary in the emerging fields of blockchain-based instruments’. The ‘approachable and responsive’ Benjamin Bada has a ‘good overview of complex structures’, including as it relates to social impact funds.
Recognised Lawyers
Next generation partners
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Insurance | Tier 2
Benefiting from a ‘detailed technical knowledge of insurance-related legal matters and regulatory requirements’, CMS is a popular choice among clients to advise not only on purely domestic matters, but also on multi-jurisdictional mandates (where it is able to effectively leverage the firm’s vast international network). ‘Experienced and knowledgeable’ banking and finance partner Vivian Walry heads up the overarching multi-disciplinary team that also includes Benjamin Bada, who has ‘great knowledge of local requirements in respect of drafting insurance policy conditions’.
Recognised Lawyers
Next generation partner
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Private Equity | Tier 2
Led by Gérard Maîtrejean, the ‘very responsive’ team at CMS provides ‘high-quality and practical advice’ to regional and global sponsors across the full spectrum of investment strategies including M&A (share and asset deals), exits, strategic partnerships and joint ventures. Maitrejean is praised for his ‘sensible, efficient and reasoned advice’, in the context of cross-border mandates.
Recognised Lawyers
Partner | Avocat à la Cour
Luxembourg
Tax | Tier 2
Led by Frederic Feyten, who 'has a unique expertise of international tax', CMS provides 'efficient' and 'pragmatic' advice on the Luxembourg structures to facilitate cross-border transactions derived from the firm's M&A and finance practices. The team also generates a substantial volume of work from the firm's growing investment funds practice, and regularly assists alternative asset managers on the tax structuring on their downstream investment work.
Recognised Lawyers
Managing Partner | Avocat
Luxembourg
Senior Counsel | Avocat
Luxembourg
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