Joakim-Antoine Charvet > Linklaters > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Linklaters
AVENUE JOHN F. KENNEDY 35
L-1855 LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg
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Position

Joakim-Antoine joined Linklaters in 2011. He has been promoted to full -Equity Partner in 2021. He is the Head of the Tax practice in Luxembourg. He is a member of the Luxembourg bar.

Prior to joining Linklaters Luxembourg, Joakim-Antoine worked as an associate at another tax dedicated law firm in Luxembourg for nearly four years.

He specialises in tax consulting and international tax planning. His main area of activity is private equity, where he mainly deals with mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and joint ventures. He is also very active in transfer pricing issues and in the structuring of complex financial products. In addition to his fluency in English, his Spanish speaking skills and understanding of the Italian language make him a privileged person to go to for deals involving Southern Europe.

Alongside his client work, Joakim regularly participates to industry meetings on subjects like ATAD in particular within the Luxembourg Capital Market Association (LuxCMA). He has also been analysing and summarising case law for Kluwer for more than 10 years, on a monthly basis.

Languages

English and French

Education

Joakim-Antoine holds a master’s degree in business and tax law as well as a postgraduate degree in tax law, both from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He further graduated from the international branch of the INSEEC Business School in Paris and from the Wallace E. Carroll Graduate School of Management of Boston College, USA.

Lawyer Rankings

Luxembourg > Tax

Often working in close co-ordination with transactional lawyers across the corporate, funds and finance groups, in particular, and also having access to the expertise of lawyers spread throughout the firm’s international network of offices, the ‘organised, knowledgeable and highly responsive’ team at Linklaters excels in providing the appropriate tax structuring pursuant to cross-border mandates in M&A, financing and restructuring contexts. Joakim-Antoine Charvet has an ‘excellent knowledge and competence of the Luxembourg law’ and heads up a team that also includes Danièle Buchler, who provides ‘a practical and well-rounded approach’ to asset managers in the set-up and tax structuring of joint venture companies and fund vehicles.