Ms Marie-Paule GILLEN > DSM Avocats à la Cour > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Ms Marie-Paule GILLEN

+3522625621 mpgillen@dsm.legal View profile View profile

Work Department

Banking and Financial Law, Corporate Finance and Capital Markets.

Position

Partner – Avocat à la Cour

Career

Marie-Paule Gillen has over 35 years’ experience in the banking industry and is particularly appreciated for her accessibility and regulatory knowledge. She advises on a wide range of financial transactions governed by Luxembourg law, involving Luxembourg and foreign entities or in respect of Luxembourg-based assets, and provides advice to banks and professionals of the financial sector (PSF).

Marie-Paule has extensive experience advising financial institutions and other professionals in the financial sector on all aspects of client contractual relations and documentation, professional liability, criminal financial law liability, corporate governance and personal data protection.

In cooperation with the litigation team, she has broad-based litigation, dispute resolution, and arbitration capabilities in finance-related matters both in Luxembourg and in international venues. This includes providing dispute resolution services to financial sector entities and individual investors with respect to their claims against banks, investment firms or other financial sector professionals. She also assists bankers and financial professionals involved in financial criminal proceedings.

Worked for KBL epb (now Quintet Private Bank) for more than 35 years as Legal Counsel, Director of Legal Affairs, Secretary General and Chief Legal Officer. Joined DSM Avocats à la Cour in 2012 as a partner and has since been head of the Banking & Finance department.

Languages

French, English, Dutch and German.

Memberships

• Member of the Board of Directors of Banque et Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat Luxembourg
• Chairman of AEDBF Luxembourg
• Member of Luxembourg Association of Compliance Officers (ALCO)
• Member of Lawyers Committee of the Luxembourg Central Bank
• Member Cercle Munster Luxembourg
• Member of the Union Internationale des Avocats

Previous Mandates:

• Member of Board of Directors and Chairman of Audit Committee Quintet Private Bank Monaco Private Bankers SA
• Member of Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsrat) of KBL Beteiligungs AG, Germany
• Member of Board of Directors of Brown Shipley Ltd, London
• Member of European Financial Markets Lawyers Group of the European Central Bank
• Member of Board of Directors of Quintet Private Bank (Switzerland), Geneva
• Chairman of Audit Committee of Quintet Private Bank (Switzerland)
• Member of Board of Directors of AEDBF (European Society for Banking and Financial Law) Europe

Education

1995: International Banking Summer School, University of Oxford
1989: International Banking Summer School, Trinity College Dublin
1974-1975: Law school, University of Geneva — Swiss corporate law and German commercial law
1969-1974: Law school, University of Leuven and Namur, Master in law