Mr Glenn Meyer > Arendt & Medernach > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Arendt & Medernach
HEAD OFFICE
41A AVENUE JF KENNEDY
2082 Luxembourg
L-2082
Luxembourg

Work Department

Banking & Financial Services

Position

Glenn Meyer is a Partner in the Banking & Financial Services practice of Arendt & Medernach. 

Career

He advises banks, investment firms, payment and electronic money institutions as well as all other professionals of the financial sector on all types of financial regulatory matters as well as on general banking law. He also handles mergers and acquisitions and asset acquisition files in the financial sector.

Glenn has also acquired over the years considerable knowledge and expertise in the regulatory framework relating to the combat against money laundering (AML) and terrorist financing (CFT) as well as in handling various types of litigation and customer complaint matters involving banks and investment firms.

In Chambers Europe 2018 legal guide, clients characterise Glenn as “extremely diligent and hands-on”, adding: ”if you leave something with Meyer, you know it’s getting done”. In the 2019 edition he is again lauded by clients, who describe him as “a specialist and a trusted adviser” And other sources praise his “excellent knowledge of regulatory matters” in the 2020 edition. He is mentioned as “Highly regarded” in IFLR 1000. He is considered by clients as a “key figure” of the Banking & Finance sector in the Legal 500 EMEA 2017 guide, as well as “reactive and practical”. Glenn Meyer is also recommended in the Legal 500 EMEA 2018 edition for his ‘in-depth analysis’ of banking and finance litigation and in the 2019 edition for his ‘broad-ranging regulatory expertise’.

Languages

English, French, German, Luxembourgish.

Memberships

He has participated in a number of working groups of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the regulatory authority of the financial sector in Luxembourg, and the Luxembourg bankers’ association (ABBL) on various regulatory matters (such as MiFID I, II, PSD, etc.). Glenn is also a member of the Legal Affairs Committee as well as of the Professional Obligations Committee of the ABBL.

He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 2001.

Education

Glenn Meyer holds a Master’s degree in business law from the Université Robert Schuman de Strasbourg (France) as well as a DEA degree in business law from the same university.

Leisure

He is a guest lecturer at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) for the Master II degree in banking and financial law, at the University of Luxembourg for the Master II degree in European banking and financial law as well as in contract law in the context of the Luxembourg bar exam. Glenn is also the author of various publications.

Lawyer Rankings

Luxembourg > Banking, finance and capital markets

(Leading individuals)

Glenn MeyerArendt & Medernach

The ‘deal oriented’ team at Arendt & Medernach provides a ‘high-quality’ service to a loyal and large pool of lenders and borrowers across the spectrum of new money financings, restructurings and regulatory matters. Matthieu Taillandier, who heads the firm’s transactional offering, advises lenders and borrowers on fund financing matters. On the capital markets front, François Warken has a strong grasp of regulatory and transactional procedures and remains a popular choice for issuers, in particular, across a plethora of debt and equity capital markets work. Displaying a ‘keen understanding of cross-border issues,’ Grégory Minne has ‘quickly grown to be well respected in the banking field,’ handling new money and restructuring mandates. Glenn Meyer heads the overarching banking practice and handles AML and terrorist financing matters. Philippe Dupont also remains ‘a key figure in the Luxembourg market’, providing transactional, litigation and regulatory expertise to banking clients. At a more junior level Emmanuelle Mousel excels at regulatory matters, Nicolas Tintanne has a broad transactional finance practice and Dominik Pauly is ‘an impressive expert in complex cross-border finance’ mandates, including those with a German nexus. Other recommended practitioners include founding partner Paul Mousel, for his insurance regulatory knowledge, and Laurent Schummer for equity capital markets work.