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OUR BUSINESS IS ABOUT SUPPORTING YOURS!
As a full-service law firm since 1923, we continue to assist our clients in achieving their goals. With many years of
experience across multiple industry sectors, our lawyers facilitate the most complex financial procedures and
transactions for our clients.
Our award-winning teams offer first-class service and a customer-focused approach to a wide range of clients. As a
fully independent law firm, our international network of experts enables us to provide the very best advice in every
circumstance while avoiding any conflict of interest. The diversity of our clients pushes us to excel because
supporting their success is our main concern.
HOW WE CAN ASSIST YOU
Setting up a business or a joint venture, merging,
restructuring or choosing the right approach to a
business project — all of these are crucial steps in
preparing for success, but they can be tedious and
complex. Our expert consultancy and experienced
advisors help our clients to make the right decision.
Our team deals with all legal issues, offering high
quality outcomes across the full spectrum of corporate
transactions, defining a strategy and guiding our clients
along each step at both domestic and international
levels, including compliance services. We adopt a
practical and interdisciplinary approach to every
transaction, always taking account of our clients’ aims
and needs.
We draw on the full range of our resources and practice
areas to advise our clients on the most appropriate
options, assisting in pending procedures and
representing our clients in court when required. Our
ongoing involvement in a large number of complex
transactions has enabled us to develop in-depth
experience in all key areas of corporate law.
In response to increased interest in the Luxembourg
market and following the announcement of Brexit, we
decided to expand into the UK. Opening a London
representative office allows us to provide a better
service to our UK clients at local level, as well as
facilitating cross-border matters.
HOW WE CAN HELP YOU TO REACH
YOUR GOALS
→ by guiding you through each aspect of the
law with clear, bespoke and innovative
advice
→ by providing relevant expertise and
experience
→ by delivering results and values
→ by serving as a one-stop-shop, in close
cooperation with the firm’s other practice
groups
→ by working with an international network
of business partners and service
providers
ADDITIONAL SERVICES WE CAN PROVIDE:
→ invitation to regular free-of-charge
seminars and information sessions on the
Luxembourg legal and regulatory
environment
→ organizing presentations and training
sessions
→ preparation of dedicated newsletters, as
well as legal and regulatory alerts
→ access to our legal library and knowledge
base.
CORPORATE PRACTICE
STRUCTURE YOUR
BUSINESS WITH US
OUR CORPORATE PRACTICE GROUP
OUR SERVICES AT A GLANCE
CORPORATE FINANCE
• Structuring and restructuring of loans
• Financing by debt and equity
• Securities
CORPORATE LAW
• Incorporation of companies and tailor-made
structures
• Corporate governance
• Cross-border and domestic redomiciliation
• Day-to-day transactions
• Legal opinions for support of transactions
EUROPEAN COMPANY (SE)
• Cross-border reorganization
• Setting up European structures (SE, European
Cooperative Societies, European Economic
Interest Groupings)
• Joint ventures
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS
• Due diligence on Luxembourg companies
• Domestic and cross-border merger and demerger
• Advising international groups on acquisitions in
Luxembourg or abroad
• Multi-jurisdictional corporate restructuring and
creation of joint ventures
• Drafting of shareholder agreements
PRIVATE EQUITY AND VENTURE CAPITAL
• LBO (Leveraged Buyout) structuring
• Venture capital and development capital
• Private equity funds structuring
• Debt financing and restructuring
• Management incentive schemes/stock option plans
RECAPITALISATION, INSOLVENCY AND
RESTRUCTURING
• Internal restructuring and refinancing
• Spin-off
• Insolvency prevention proceedings, debt
renegotiation
• Safeguard and insolvency proceedings
• Distressed acquisitions
OUR RENOWNED CLIENTS
• Multinational corporations
• Banks and financial institutions
• Investment and pension funds
• Private equity houses
• Asset managers and family offices
• Insurance and reinsurance companies
• Real estate agencies
• Maritime and aviation groups
• Telecommunications groups
• Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies
• Biotechnological companies
• Energy companies
• HNWIS
WHAT OTHERS SAY
The 'approachable, responsive and partner-driven'
team at Wildgen provides a 'practical service' to clients
including Murex Group, Platinum Equity and Pacific
Drilling, across a range of cross-border transactional
work. Led by François Brouxel and with considerable
assistance from the 'outstanding' Yann Payen, the firm
recently advised Schneider Electric in the
reorganisation of the Luxembourg entities of the group.
Isabelle Charlier is also recommended.
Legal 500 2019
Clients appreciate that the M&A team's
"responsiveness is good and they are close to their
clients." Other clients report they have found that "the
lawyers have always been responsive and helpful."
Chambers & Partners 2018
A RECOGNISED TEAM
The latest edition of the IFLR 1000 ranked
François Brouxel (Partner) as a highly regarded lawyer.
Catherine Cathiard (Director) and Yann Payen
(Director) as notable practitioners.
The latest edition of the Legal 500 ranked
François Brouxel (Partner), Isabelle Charlier (Partner)
and Yann Payen (Director) as recommended lawyers.
Our team regularly provides local and international companies from various sectors with advice on
corporate law. Some significant corporate references:
SIGNIFICANT REFERENCES
US GLOBAL
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
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ACQUISITION OF A
CORPORATE GROUP
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USD 6,900,000,000
PACIFIC DRILLING LLC
(OFFSHORE DRILLING
COMPANY)
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ASSISTANCE IN THE
REORGANISATION PLAN
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EUR 1,500,000,000
MAJOR PLAYER IN
VEHICLE DEALERSHIPS
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STRUCTURATION OF THE
ACQUISITION OF TWO
LUXEMBOURG CORPORATE
GROUPS
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EUR 24,000,000
PLATINUM EQUITY
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ACQUISITION OF A
EUROPEAN HOLIDAY
RENTALS GROUP
----
USD 1,300,000,000
ONE OF THE US LARGEST
PUBLIC COMPANIES
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ACQUISITION AND GROUP
RESTRUCTURING
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USD 22,200,000,000
MAJOR NORTH AMERICAN
ENERGY COMPANY
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RESTRUCTURING AND
MERGER OF SISTER
COMPANIES
----
USD 7,500,000,000
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC S.E.
(MULTINATIONAL
CORPORATION
SPECIALISED IN ENERGY)
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ASSISTANCE ON
ACQUISITIONS AND
MERGER PROCESS
----
EUR 630,000,000
MODERN MEDIA
ACQUISITION CORP.
(SPECIAL PURPOSE
ACQUISITION COMPANY)
----
ASSISTANCE IN THE
MERGER WITH AKAZOO
----
USD 469,000,000
MULTINATIONAL FOOD-
PRODUCTS CORPORATION
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LARGE SCALE
REORGANISATION OF
VARIOUS OF THE CLIENT’S
LEGAL ENTITIES
WORLDWIDE
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EUR 937,000,000
LUXEMBOURG-REGULATED
MANAGEMENT COMPANY
----
ASSISTANCE IN THE SALE
OF A COMPANY OWNING
THREE BUILDINGS
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EUR 48,000,000
LEADING TOP SUPPLIER OF
ENERGY IN LUXEMBOURG
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ACQUISITION OF A
CORPORATE GROUP
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EUR 15,000,000
FRENCH COMPANY
SPECIALISED IN
OPERATIONAL LEASING,
FINANCING AND HANDLING
EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE
----
JOINT VENTURE WITH A
FRENCH COMPANY
---
EUR 150,000,000
Delia NITESCU – Director
T: +352 40 49 60 246
What she knows about: Corporate Law,
Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity &
Venture Capital, Energy
Our Corporate law department is central to our activities, with about 30 lawyers covering this area. As well as our
scale, our high level of expertise and specialist legal and business knowledge enables us to offer expert advice to tier
one clients in complex corporate matters. Our lawyers are of the highest calibre, combining reliable business
expertise and determination.
Unrivalled client care, quality, respect and entrepreneurship are our catchwords.
We always make the necessary resources available as required, structuring a dedicated team to ensure that the
appropriate personnel, with the relevant experience and expertise deal with client transactions.
Our key contacts in Corporate Law:
OUR CORPORATE TEAM
François BROUXEL – Managing Partner
Head of the Corporate Department
T: +352 40 49 60 224
What he knows about: Corporate Law,
Securitisation, Reinsurance, Business
Litigation
Isabelle CHARLIER – Partner
Co-Head of the Corporate Practice Group
T: +352 40 49 60 265
What she knows about: Corporate Law,
Maritime & Aviation, Merger &
Acquisitions, Real Estate
Yann PAYEN – Director
T: +352 40 49 60 274
What he knows about: Corporate Law,
Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital
Markets, Private Equity & Venture
Capital
Luis Marques GUILHERME – Director
T: +352 40 49 60 384
What he knows about: Corporate
Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private
Equity & Venture Capital
A team recognised by:
Europäische Aktiengesellschaft SE (Nomos Verlag)
Die Neuauflage des Kommentars zur SE kommentiert im Einzelnen: die Verordnung über das Statut
der Europäischen Gesellschaft (SE) sowie das SE-Ausführungsgesetz (Gesellschaftsrecht) - das SE-
Beteiligungsgesetz (Arbeitsrecht) - die Besteuerung der SE. Die Autoren (einschließlich Catherine
Cathiard) sind erfahrene Experten mit großer Beratungspraxis auf dem Gebiet des Europäischen
Gesellschaftsrechts.
OUR CORPORATE PUBLICATIONS
Droit des sociétés luxembourgeois : tableau comparatif (nouvelle numérotation)
Version consolidée du tableau comparatif des anciennes et nouvelles dispositions du Code civil, de la
loi concernant les sociétés commerciales et de la loi RCS. Ce tableau reprend l'intégralité de la loi
modifiée du 10 août 1915 concernant les sociétés commerciales ainsi que la nouvelle numérotation
des articles suite au Règlement Grand-Ducal du 19 décembre 2017.
The Reform of the Luxembourg Company Law Regime
On 13 July 2016 the Luxembourg parliament adopted the bill of law 5730 modernising and
amending the law of 10 August 1915 on commercial companies, the Civil Code and the law of 19
December 2002 on the trade and companies’ register and on the accounting and annual accounts of
undertakings. This memo aims to explain this modernisation.
Code des Sociétés luxembourgeois (Legitech)
Commenté par les avocats du département « Droit des Sociétés », ce code, publié par Legitech
entend rendre accessible au plus grand nombre l’ensemble des normes et textes constitutifs
touchant à la vie des sociétés luxembourgeoises.
La pratique du droit européen des sociétés, 2nde édition (Editions Joly)
Tout comme lors la première parution, cette nouvelle version a pour finalité de présenter clairement
et de façon complète le droit européen des sociétés et des réorganisations transfrontalières. La
deuxième édition de cet ouvrage publiée par les Editions Joly a été préfacée par Thierry Breton, PDG
d’Atos SE et ancien ministre français de l’Economie, des Finances et de l’Industrie.
Revue Pratique de Droit des Affaires - Droit des sociétés et compétitivité (Legitech)
Yann Payen, Director, est le rédacteur en chef de la nouvelle publication « Revue Pratique de Droit
des Affaires – Droit des sociétés et compétitivité » éditée par Legitech.
All our Corporate law publications are available on our website. You can also request them at [email protected]
Emmanuelle RAGOT – Partner
IP/TMT | Regulatory | Competition |
Biotechnologies
OUR PARTNERS
François BROUXEL – Managing
Partner
Corporate Law | Securitisation |
Reinsurance | Business Litigation
Samia RABIA – Partner
Investment Funds | Corporate Law |
Private Equity & Venture Capital |
Islamic Finance | Real Estate
Mevlüde-Aysun TOKBAG – Partner
Banking & Finance | Capital Markets |
Investment Funds | Mergers &
Acquisitions
Michel BULACH – Partner
Banking & Finance | Securitisation |
Insurance & Reinsurance | Capital
Markets
David MARIA – Partner
Tax | Corporate Law |
Energy
Lionel BONIFAZZI – Partner
Tax | Corporate Law
Isabelle CHARLIER – Partner
Corporate Law | Maritime & Aviation |
Merger & Acquisitions | Real Estate
Mark SHAW – Partner
Investment Funds | Banking &
Finance | Corporate Law
Karine VILRET – Partner
Insurance | Corporate Law | Business
Litigation