Arendt & Medernach

Firm Details:

Co-Chairs: Claude Niedner and Michèle Eisenhuth

Managing Partner: Jean-Marc Ueberecken

Number of partners worldwide: 63

Number of other lawyers worldwide: 450

Languages: 30+ including Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Luxembourgish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, etc.

Contacts:

Luxembourg (Head Office)

Email: [email protected]

Frankfurt

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Hong Kong

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London

Email: [email protected]

New York

Email: [email protected]

Paris

Email: [email protected]

Firm Overview:

We assist clients in structuring and running their business from a legal and tax standpoint across Luxembourg. Our teams directly serve international clients or work in close collaboration with foreign partner law firms.

Together with our regulatory consultants and investor services experts, we bridge the gap between legal/tax advice and its implementation. We deliver best-in-class services along our clients’ business life cycles.

The 450 legal experts of Arendt & Medernach are able to advise you in the following areas:

- Administrative Law, Property, Construction & Environment

- Banking & Financial Services

- Business Crime

- Corporate Law Mergers & Acquisitions

- Employment Law, Pensions & Benefits

- EU Financial & Competition Law

- Finance & Capital Markets

- Insurance & Reinsurance Law

- Investment Management

- IP, Communication & Technology

- Litigation & Dispute Resolution

- Private Clients

- Private Equity & Real Estate

- Restructuring & Insolvency

- Tax

Main Areas of Practice:

Legal - Fintech Practice

Riding the wave of fintech innovation Arendt lawyers have developed a unique strategy to serve the rapidly evolving start-ups, fintech and e-payment / e-commerce industries. They advise well established clients in the financial sector as well as newcomers and innovators on every legal and regulatory aspects at every level of the value chain. It includes the structuring and organisation of their business, the development and expansion of their undertaking. It fully meets expectations of the fintech firms and their business model.

Arendt constantly keeps clients updated on the challenges and opportunities fintech presents, balancing the desire for innovation and rapid commercial implementation. Arendt’s team of specialists provides the full spectrum of legal services answering this challenging industry’s needs:

■ Financial services and regulatory issues

■ Blockchain technology legal and regulatory treatment

■ Corporate law solutions

■ Tax structuring matters

■ Investment funds and cryptocurrency funds structuring

■ IT, IP, technology, data protection and cybersecurity expertise

■ Assistance in any type of litigation Sectors

■ Aerospace & Defence

■ Banks

■ Financial Services

■ Government

■ Investment Firms

■ Payment Institutions & Electronic Money Institutions

■ Software & Computer Services

■ Technology, Hardware & Electronics

■ Telecommunications

Recent Highlights:

We advise on major projects involving distributed ledger and blockchain technology and have been appointed as counsel to several key players in the crypto sector. We also provide counsel on various virtual currency-related projects, as well as to firms offering payment and electronic money services. Recently, we worked on a large M&A transaction in the payment space and continue to support firms in obtaining licenses in Luxembourg. In addition, we advise numerous established financial institutions and are actively engaged in Securities Token Offering initiatives and projects.

Key contact for Fintech advice:

Contact: Marc Mouton, Partner

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +352 40 78 78 336