Pit Reckinger

Practice Areas

- Corporate, mergers & acquisitions

- Banking and financial services

- Insurance and reinsurance

- Regulatory and compliance

- Foundation, non-profit organisations and philanthropy

- Real estate / Acquisition structuring

- Private wealth & estate planning

Career

Pit Reckinger advises banks, insurance companies, corporations and entrepreneurs on corporate and regulatory transactions as well as on a continuous basis on corporate housekeeping and compliance matters. His areas of expertise focus specifically on regulatory and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and regulatory approvals, bank secrecy, aspects of anti-money laundering and compliance issues. Pit in addition has specific expertise in the private wealth sector as well as in the philanthropic sector and advises families and entrepreneurs, foundations, shareholder foundations and other actors in the non-profit sector.

Pit published contributions in banking law, inter alia, in the areas of banking regulation, shadow banking, bank confidentiality and money laundering as well as company law. He regularly participates in conferences on subjects related to banking law, company law as well as the philanthropic sector.

Professional Memberships

Chairman of the Ordre des Avocats du Barreau de Luxembourg (Luxembourg Bar Association).

Former Chairman of the Commission droit économique of the Luxembourg Bar.

Former Co-Chair of the Securities Law Committee and current member of the Securities Law Committee Advisory Board of the IBA (International Bar Association).

Member and former Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the AEDBF Luxembourg (Association Européenne pour le Droit Bancaire et Financier).

Lecturer on the EU Passport at the University of Luxembourg.

Chairman of André Losch Fondation and Fondation André et Henriette Losch.

Member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1990.

Personal

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of André Losch, Fondation.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fondation André et Henriette Losch.

Publications

Le régime de la S.À R.L. sous l'influence de la S.A.

Inducements: the Luxembourg perspective from MiFID I to MiFID II

Dans l’ombre des banques

Banking Regulation 2013 - Luxembourg

Securities Finance 2011 - Luxembourg

Work Highlights

Elvinger Hoss Prussen assisted Havilland S.A. with the sale of its institutional banking business.

Elvinger Hoss Prussen advises Volkswagen on the planned acquisition of Europcar

Advising on Valaris restructuring implemented through Chapter 11

BIL sold Terres Rouges to Belgian developer IRET

Languages Spoken

English

French

German

Luxembourgish

Education