Mr Adrian Aldinger > Arendt & Medernach > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

The ‘commercially focused’ team at Arendt & Medernach has ‘an excellent understanding of market practice as well as local regulation and CSSF expectations’, ensuring that it is a very popular choice among fund managers on their structuring and regulatory requirements. Although retail funds (including UCITS) continue to inform a significant proportion of its workflow, the team is also adept at advising across a range of alternative strategies, including as these relate to private debt and private equity. Here, the firm has been at the vanguard of developments in the market, which has seen it very well-placed to generate work from clients on newer structures including “Evergreen Funds”, as well as the continued push towards impact investing. ‘Exceptional’ team head Gilles Dusemon has been pivotal to the firm’s success at driving change in the alternative space and has developed an excellent sense of “what is market”, not only through his fee-earning work but also as a result of his role as co-chairman of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Working Group. The ‘dynamic, intelligent and creative’ Adrian Aldinger is also very well regarded in the alternative space, particularly for the structuring of private equity and debt funds. Florence Stainier has an ‘excellent knowledge of Luxembourg regulation, practice and regulator expectations’ and is one of the driving forces behind the firm’s market-leading UCITS offering. Other key practitioners include Michèle Eisenhuth, who covers a mix of UCITS and alternatives; Isabelle Lebbe, who is an expert at advising on ESG-related matters and on disputes in the sector; Stefan Staedter, the ‘go-to-person for ELTIF matters’; Nicolas Bouveret, who is ‘very knowledgeable on all things private debt’; ‘seasoned veteran’ Francis Kass; and firm co-chair Claude Niedner.

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.