Mr Guy Harles > Arendt & Medernach > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile
Arendt & Medernach Offices
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41A AVENUE JF KENNEDY
2082 Luxembourg
L-2082
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Mr Guy Harles
Work Department
Corporate Law, Mergers ＆ Acquisitions ; Private Equity ＆ Real Estate ; Private Wealth
Position
Guy Harles is a Founding Partner of Arendt & Medernach.
Career
He specialises in corporate projects, advising multinational and domestic companies, as well as HNWIs on the structuring of international transactions, private equity investments, corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and private wealth management. As an entrepreneurial lawyer, Guy plays a major role in Arendt & Medernach’s international development. He has acquired a very good knowledge of the international market and more specifically of Asia, where he regularly advises clients.
Guy’s international business experience and long-standing position as trusted advisor are underscored by a number of Board-level appointments. Guy also regularly serves as an arbitrator, designated by leading international arbitration centres. He is a former President of EuroArbitrage, chairman of the Luxembourg arbitration association and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR.
Guy started his professional career in the finance department of Arbed, now part of ArcelorMittal, the global steel company headquartered in Luxembourg, working on long-term debt and export financing.
Languages
English, French, German, Italian, Luxembourgish.
Memberships
Guy is involved in the lawyers’ community in Luxembourg and abroad. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1980 and served as Chair (Bâtonnier) of the Luxembourg Bar Council from 2011 to 2012. He has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1993 and was admitted as a foreign lawyer to the Hong Kong Bar in 2009. He was the president of the Luxembourg Young Bar Association and of AIJA (International Young Lawyers’ Association). Guy currently serves as senior vice chair on the Corporate and M&A law committee of the IBA.
Education
Sharing his knowledge and professional experience is very important to Guy. He graduated in 1979 from the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg with a Master’s degree in law and an advanced degree (DESS) in banking and finance. Only three years later he started as a lecturer on business law at the Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg, the Faculty of Law (University of Luxembourg), at the Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) from 1981 to 2007 and at the Université Paul Cézanne (Aix en Provence) from 2010 to 2012.
Lawyer Rankings
Luxembourg > Commercial, corporate and M&A
(Hall of Fame)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
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- Fintech
- Insurance
- Investment funds
- IP and IT
- Private equity
- Real estate and construction
- Tax