BSP

Partners: Nuala Doyle, Gaëlle Felly, Laure-Hélène Gaicio-Fievez, Linda Harroch, Isabel Høg-Jensen, Cécile Jager, Michaël Kitai, Laurent Lazard, Evelyn Maher, Pol Mellina, Anne Morel, Christèle Pierre-Alexandre, Daniel Riedel, Jean Steffen, Alain Steichen, Fabio Trevisan, Elodie Vincent, Nicolas Widung

Number of partners: 18

Number of lawyers: 70

Languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

Firm Overview:

BSP is an independent full-service law firm based in Luxembourg. It is committed to providing the best legal services to its domestic and international clients in all aspects of Luxembourg business law. Talented and multilingual, its teams of lawyers work side by side with clients to help them reach their objectives and support them with tailor-made legal advice, creating in the process professional relationships based on mutual trust and respect. Building on the synergy of its different professional experiences and the richness of its diverse cultural background, BSP stands ready to meet its clients’ legal needs, no matter how challenging they are.

Main Areas of Practice:

AML Compliance

Banking & Finance

Capital Markets

Corporate

Data Protection & Privacy

Dispute Resolution

Employment, Compensation & Benefits

Intellectual Property & General Commercial

Investment Management

Private Equity

Private Wealth & Business Planning

Real Estate & Construction

Startup & Fintech

Tax

AML:

The firm covers the full spectrum of risk management and corporate compliance issues that the regulatory environment generates.

Banking & Finance

Banking & Financial Services:

The banking and financial services team advises credit institutions and other professionals of the financial sector on the entire spectrum of regulatory matters relating to their business activity and assists them in their dealings with the Luxembourg Financial Sector Authority.

Bank Lending, Structured Finance & Securitisation:

The firm’s bank lending, structured finance and securitisation team represents its clients in every aspect of their bank lending and structured finance deals.

Capital Markets:

As a result of its extensive experience in advising clients in both equity and debt transactions, the firm has become one of the ‘go-to firms’ for capital markets matters. It advises on stand-alone bond issues, convertible bonds and exchangeable bonds, establishment and maintenance of debt issuance programmes and debt-related structured products. The team is also very active on the equity capital markets side and advises on the full spectrum of equity-linked transactions.

Corporate Corporate & M&A:

The corporate and M&A team has significant expertise representing domestic and international leading corporations, public and private companies, investment banks, private equity firms and other investors in complex M&A transactions. Acting for corporate buyers and sellers, the firm provides on-going advice on general company law matters and solutions on all corporate law issues. The firm also regularly advises on corporate governance issues.

Insolvency & Restructuring:

The firm’s multidisciplinary team provides comprehensive and practical advice on a wide range of Luxembourg bankruptcy and insolvency issues. The firm frequently represents clients in non-judicial debt restructurings including the refinancing or renegotiation of existing debt; helping them to assess the strength of their security in a bankruptcy or insolvency scenario and to develop efficient and ground-breaking solutions that maximise value for them.

Private Equity:

The firm advises many of the most prominent private equity funds worldwide and major financial institutions, now representing a benchmark for private equity in Luxembourg. The dedicated team has the necessary commitment and know-how to advise investors across the entire investment deal life-cycle.

Data Protection & Privacy:

The data protection team has successfully assisted multinational organisations in the design and implementation of privacy and security programs, audit, risk assessments and in developing policies concerning the whole data life-cycle.

Dispute Resolution

Arbitration:

Being familiar with arbitration proceedings enables the firm to offer its clients assistance, representation and advice at all stages of the process. The firm acts in ad hoc arbitrations as well as in domestic and international arbitrations in Luxembourg covering both Luxembourg and foreign rules, including those of the International Court of Arbitration (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), ICSID, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL/CNUCID). Furthermore, the department has valuable expertise in other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) such as mediation.

Litigation:

The firm handles a full spectrum of matters from significant routine matters to large international and high profile disputes in a wide range of substantive areas. Advising clients at all stages of contentious matters, the department also has great deal of expertise in other forms of alternative dispute resolution such as mediation, conciliation and negotiation.

Employment, Compensation & Benefits:

The firm assists on all aspects of labour law and counsels on both routine and non-routine issues relating to employment, compensation and benefits laws. From implementing preventive measures to representing clients in labour courts and in out-of-court dispute resolutions, the team assists in both individual and collective employment relationships.

Intellectual Property & General Commercial:

The firm is specialised in enforcing and defending intellectual property rights. The team are also experts in drafting and negotiating internet and e-commerce contracts and outsourcing and commercial agreements.

Investment Management:

The firm has a strong and well-established expertise in all areas of investment funds law. The practice ranges from the more standardised regulated vehicles, such as UCITS (SICAV, FCP), SIF, SICAR and RAIF, to unregulated funds and securitisation vehicles; from the set-up of management companies and Alternative Investment Fund Managers, to the restructuring of complex groups of funds. The firm can provide expertise and resources required for the success of your initiative in many areas such as plain vanilla mutual funds, real estate, private equity and venture capital funds, loan origination and loan participation funds, distressed debt funds and carbon funds.

Private Wealth & Business Planning:

The firm advises not only high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families but also the private banks, trust companies and family offices. It helps clients to manage and transfer wealth, protect family interests, seize the best opportunities at the best possible time and plan for the future, while minimising complications.

Real Estate & Construction:

The firm has significant experience in real estate matters, including the financing, planning, zoning, construction, sales, rentals, sales and lease backs. Its clients include conglomerates acting worldwide in the real estate sector and funds specialising in real estate acquisitions and management.

Start up & Fintech:

The firm’s startup and fintech team is passionate about fuelling innovation and fostering emerging companies, fintechs, startups and innovators. As a result, the firm has developed a dedicated program to encourage them adopting a team-based approach to provide the most substantive and practical legal advice.

Tax:

The firm’s team of tax lawyers and advisors provides highly specialised advice on wide range of matters, including transactions (disposals, acquisitions and joint ventures), tax planning (inward and outward investment, holding and financing structures and group reorganisations), tax audits and litigation, value added tax, creation of all forms of collective investment vehicles, transfer pricing, structured financial products (securitisations and tax enhanced debt financings).