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Mr Carsten Opitz
Work Department
Private Equity & Real Estate and Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
Position
Carsten Opitz is a Partner in both the Private Equity & Real Estate and the Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions practices of Arendt & Medernach. He specialises in corporate law, advising primarily international companies, large private equity and real estate funds in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, complex international corporate restructurings, corporate finance and transactional business law.
Languages
English, French, German.
Memberships
He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar and of the Düsseldorf Bar (Germany) since 2004.
Carsten Opitz is a member of the legal committee of the Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (LPEA).
Education
Carsten Opitz is a German qualified lawyer, who studied law in Constance, Berlin and Paris. He holds the German first and second state exam in law as well as a Master’s degree in law (maîtrise en droit) from the Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France).
Lawyer Rankings
Luxembourg > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Next Generation Partners)The ‘client focused and efficient’ team at Arendt & Medernach provides a ‘very pragmatic’ service to domestic and international clients across a wide array of transactional and ongoing corporate governance and commercial work. As well as advising major multinational corporates, financial institutions and asset managers, the team has also gained a strong reputation within emerging sectors, including fintech and digitech. Laurent Schummer is one of the key practitioners in relation to work in emerging sectors, as well as regularly advising financial sponsors and large corporates on higher-value M&A matters. Guy Harles
provides ‘solutions-oriented advice’ on the buy and sell side on high-value cross-border M&A matters, while Bob Calmes also regularly advises on cross-border mandates, including those involving a US angle. As well as his work on conventional M&A, restructuring and JV transactions, Alexander Olliges has also gained a strong reputation advising on SPAC and subsequent de-SPAC mandates. Carsten Opitz is particularly adept at advising on corporate governance issues and co-heads the team alongside Schummer.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Luxembourg
- Next Generation Partners Luxembourg > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
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- Employment
- Fintech
- Insurance
- Investment funds
- IP and IT
- Private equity
- Real estate and construction
- Tax