BSP

Tax | Corporate

Managing Partner

• Alain is Managing Partner at BSP.
• He has been involved in numerous migrations of companies to Luxembourg and has advised on major domestic and international corporate restructurings, including pre-sale reorganisations and intra-group financings.
• He also advises on complex international and domestic recapitalisations, (de)mergers, acquisitions and sales of businesses, where he has vast experience in acting for banks and telecom solutions providers.
• Alain has extensive experience in tax litigation, negotiation with revenue authorities and settlement of disputes. As such, he advises multi-nationals, financial institutions, corporates and high net worth individuals on a number of ongoing tax and VAT local and cross-border disputes.
• He also regularly advises on various European tax law questions with particular focus on EU State aid.
• An Associate Professor at the University of Luxembourg in public finance, European tax, international tax and company taxation, he is the author of various books (15+) and articles on Luxembourg accounting, tax and company law.
• Former réviseur d’entreprises and former expert comptable, Alain was the head of Tax at PWC Luxembourg until 1996.

English, French, German, Luxembourgish

• Member of the Board of Trustees, Academy of European Law (ERA)
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA)
• Member of the European Association of Tax Law Professors (EATLP)
• Université du Luxembourg, Associate Professor

• Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar, 1996; Paris, 1994.
• University of Saarbrücken, Germany, Doctorat en Droit (Ph.D. in Law), 1994.
• Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, Maîtrise en Droit Privé, mention Droit des Affaires (Master in Private Law), 1984.
• Université Aix-Marseille III, France, Maîtrise en sciences économiques (Master in Economics), 1983.