Mr Pierre Beissel > Arendt & Medernach > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

The ‘proactive and responsive’ team at Arendt & Medernach has ‘extensive knowledge of the industry’ and provides ‘a business-oriented approach’ to a myriad of large global sponsors, including Bain Capital and Oaktree Capital, across the spectrum of work throughout the value chain, including on their downstream investment activity. Laurent Schummer‘s work in the space runs the gamut from venture capital/growth capital mandates through to core private equity leveraged buyout (LBO) work for clients including Astorg – which he recently advised on a complex co-investment acquisition with Epiris of London-based Euromoney Institutional Investor. Pierre Beissel, who has excellent industry insight through his LPEA board membership, is also a prominent figure in much of the large-scale private equity-related transactional work handled by the team, as well as for restructuring and corporate governance. Adrian Aldinger heads the team.

With ‘excellent knowledge of the Luxembourg market’ gleaned over many years’ experience handling work at the very top end of the market, Arendt & Medernach provides a ‘very diligent and effective’ service for “bricks and mortar” mandates as well as corporate and finance work in the space. The ‘outstanding’ Christian Point has a wide-ranging offering which encompasses advice on leases, development of land and corporate real estate, as well as representation of clients in construction disputes. Working closely with its first-rate investment management offering, the team is also very adept at handling work for real estate funds on formation matters as well as their subsequent real estate investments. Claude Niedner is regularly engaged in structuring fund vehicles which invest in real estate assets, while Pierre Beissel, who co-heads the team alongside Point, is noted for his work on structuring and subsequent downstream investments and financing for private equity funds focusing on real estate assets.