Ms Claire-Marie Darnand > Stibbe > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Stibbe
6, RUE JEAN MONNET
2180 LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg

Work Department

Corporate; Merger and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Real Estate; Banking and Finance

Position

Partner

Career

Claire-Marie is engaged in a wide range of domestic and cross-border corporate matters. She combines her practical and academic expertise in assisting clients in achieving their legal, commercial, and business goals.
Claire-Marie particularly focuses on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, co-investments, and corporate real estate. She also has special expertise in private equity matters such as acquisition structuring.

Languages

French, English.

Memberships

  • Member of the Real Estate Association of Luxembourg LuxReal
  • Member of the International Bar Association (IBA)
  • Member of LILLA (Ladies in law Luxembourg association)
  • Member of LPEA (Luxembourg private equity association)

Education

Claire-Marie holds a master’s degree in Business Law from the University of Jean Moulin Lyon (2001). She also obtained a master’s degree in Business Law and a Certificate of Higher Education in Common Law from the University of East Anglia (2002).
Furthermore, Claire-Marie holds a degree in Advanced Specialised Studies in Corporate Tax Law from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (2003) and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in International Commercial and Business Law from the University of East Anglia (2004).

With the Luxembourg office of Stibbe since 2010 (Partner since 2014).

Lawyer Rankings

Luxembourg > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Often working in a co-ordinated fashion with finance, funds and tax specialists at the office, as well as with lawyers based out of the Netherlands and Belgium, Stibbe is noted for its ability to provide ‘high-quality’ Luxembourg corporate structuring associated with cross-border private equity-related transactions, both on the seller and on the acquirer side. Team head Gérald Origer has ‘outstanding knowledge and large experience in broad cross-national private equity projects,’ regularly handling work for a number of major private equity houses. Claire-Marie Darnand is a ‘very approachable, responsive and commercially minded lawyer’ who handles a wide range of domestic and cross-border corporate matters.