Led by Adrian Aldinger, the ‘well-oiled’ cross-disciplinary team at Arendt & Medernach provides ’client-focused and service-oriented advice’ to private equity sponsors through every aspect of the value chain, including on their acquisitions and exits. Praised for his ‘broad experience and commercial and pragmatic attitude’, Philippe Harles is very well versed at handling buy and sell-side work for sponsors involving mature companies and is also highly proficient for early stage or start-up fundraising within Luxembourg’s thriving venture capital ecosystem. The vastly experienced Laurent Schummer is also a key figure for start-up work, as well as advising private equity sponsors on later stage and more general corporate M&A matters. Pierre Beissel has deep insight into the private equity space throughout the life-cycle, from initial fund formation, through to downstream M&A, as well as general corporate advice for portfolio companies.
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Work Department
Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions ; Private Equity & Real Estate
Position
Pierre Beissel is a Partner and a member of both the Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions and the Private Equity & Real Estate practices of Arendt & Medernach. He advises private equity firms, hedge funds and real estate funds on funds structuring and formation as well as on the structuring and financing of international buy-out transactions, joint ventures, corporate reorganisations and corporate governance matters.
Career
Pierre Beissel is teaching Corporate and Commercial Law at the Luxembourg School for Commerce. He is a lecturer in Contractual Law at the Luxembourg bar school.
Languages
English, French, German and Luxembourgish.
Memberships
He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1999 and of the New York Bar since 2001.
He is an active member of the Luxembourg Private Equity Association and of the American Bar Association and he was President of the Luxembourg Young Bar Association in 2007/2008.
Education
Pierre Beissel holds a Master's degree in law, a diplôme de juriste conseil d'entreprise (DJCE) and a diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées in business law (DESS droit des affaires) from the Université Montpellier I (France), as well as a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from Cornell Law School (U.S.A.).
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- 'It is a well-oiled team with great negotiation skills and one that provides client-focused and service-oriented advice.'
- 'The practice combines high partner involvement with strong technical expertise.'
Key clients
- Ardian
- Bain Capital
Work highlights
Advised Ufenau VII Asset Light, SLP in their successful structuring and implementation of a long-term strategic partnership with PKF WMS.