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 Gérard Maitrejean
Partner

Gérard Maitrejean

Partner | Avocat à la Cour

Languages
  • French
  • English

Gérard Maîtrejean is a Partner and heads the Luxembourg Corporate M&A and Private Equity practice groups.

Having advised major private equity houses and international financial institutions, Gérard has gained sound experience assisting corporations in relation to their general corporate affairs, joint venture transactions and corporate migrations.

He supports companies across a number of key industries and provides high level advice to boards and senior management across the world. He has been a lead adviser for many landmark M&A transactions throughout Europe, the US and Asia.

Awards & Recognitions
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    "Gerard Maîtrejean is really competent, has enormous technical skills and is always available."
    Legal 500, 2022
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    "Gerard Maitrejean has an ability to think outside the box, to provide innovative solutions and ideas and to simplify complex propositions and schemes."
    Legal 500, 2022
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    "I worked with Gerard Maîtrejean for many years. He is a very resourceful lawyer always able to catch the ball before things go wrong. I have seen him on multiple occasions helping a client in dire need of very technical and urgent legal advice and he always delivered. He is my number one go-to lawyer!"
    Legal 500, 2022
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    "Gérard Maitrejean provides sensible, efficient and reasoned advice at a reasonable price point."
    Legal 500, 2022
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    Gérard Maîtrejean is recognised as Highly regarded.
    IFLR1000 2021
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    Gérard Maîtrejean is recognised as a leading individual, ranked in band 4.
    Chambers and Partners, 2021
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    "He is calm, very knowledgeable, a good team player and has a good sense of (self-deprecating) humour."
    IFLR1000, 2021
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    "Pleasant to deal with. An eye for detail. Clear in his advice. Kept a cool head throughout, despite the extremely challenging timeline we had to adhere to and generally being dealt somewhat of a difficult hand by us. Ensured we remained on track from a Luxembourg law perspective."
    IFLR1000, 2021
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    "Gérard Maîtrejean is very experienced and modest. He is reachable for any client and willing to help."
    Chambers and Partners, 2024
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    "Gerard Maitrejean is very seasoned, always finds a solution and is very practical."
    Legal 500, 2024
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    "Gerard Maitrejean is always available, client-oriented and extremely good at risk management."
    Legal 500, 2024
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    “Gérard Maitrejean provides high quality advice.”
    Legal 500, 2025

Education

  • 1997, Master’s Degree in law, University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium