Experts

Anna Olejarz

Business Developer in Agency Services team of the Securities Products department. Advising clients on the issuance of securities (with Euroclear and Clearstream, Euroclear France, LuxCSD or SIX Switzerland) and listing on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. At BIL since 2015, previously gained experience in Project Management and Robotic Process Automation.

Anna Stolarz

Antoine Clasen

Caves Bernard-Massard SA – company website

Caves Bernard-Massard SA –  6-8, rue du Pont, L-6773 Grevenmacher (Luxembourg)

Catharina Biver

Catharina has done management coaching and delivered employee training for 15 years. Her clients have included top banks and institutions including the European Commission. With boundless energy and enthusiasm, Catharina has inspired many people to dare to go above and beyond to achieve meaningful goals.

Cedric Haas

At ACL since more than 5 years, Cédric is a passionate and ambitious marketing & communication manager with 6+ years of experience in:

• project- tourism- and event management
• Public speaking & presenting
• Magazine contributor / Proofreading
• Team management
• Contract management
• Social Media management
• Conceptualisation of guided tours & excursions
• Intercultural Communication

When he isn’t composing day trips to (re)discover the Grand Duchy, he is organising and participating in Networking-events for different target groups; may it be in an acquisitional or in a loyalty context including the corresponding communication. (e.g. FETE JUBILES 600+ participants…)

Next to this he is one of the ACL’s multilingual voices at ARA cityradio, radio l’Essentiel, radio Latina and radio 100.7

Additionally, he is a tour guide, may it be at one-day-excursions, at longhaul trips or at guided tours through ACL’s headquarters.

Chris Gogol

Christian Tailleur

Christoph N. Kossmann

IQEQ S.A. (formerly SGG S. A.)  – company website

Darina Mohamad

Darina Mohamad is an associate with NautaDutilh Avocats Luxembourg and a member of the firm’s investment funds practice. She assists asset managers, funds promoters, depositary banks and institutional investors in the structuring and setting up of Luxembourg regulated investment fund structures i.e. UCITS, specialized investment funds (SIFs), private equity and venture capital funds (SICARs), as well as unregulated investment vehicles i.e. reserved alternative investment funds (RAIFs).
Darina holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Warsaw (2015) and an LL.M. in European General Law from the University of Luxembourg, including a semester spent at Columbia University in New York (2017).

Prior to joining NautaDutilh Avocats Luxembourg, she worked for a Big Four accounting firm in Luxembourg. Her previous work experience includes other top-tier law firms as well as a well-established Luxembourgish bank.

Darina is a native Polish, fluent in English and has moderate knowledge of French and German.

Elisabeth Kampa

Elisabeth started her career as a corporate litigation lawyer in a Luxembourg law firm focusing on complex litigations in different fields of law and before different jurisdictions.

From 2001 to 2018 Elisabeth worked as an in house lawyer for different international Companies. First for a leading Steel Company focusing and completing a wide range of M&A projects and international trade issues, then for a world leading satellite operator, where Elisabeth continued to advise and complete M& A projects , but also managed EU competition law projects and related legal proceedings before the EU Commission. Furthermore Elisabeth advised on platform activities and transponder sale agreements. Finally as Group General Counsel for an international mining company Elisabeth had the opportunity to set up and manage the Group legal department and the Compliance department but also the corporate governance of the Company.  More recently Elisabeth has also been advising a start-up based on blockchain technology.

Elisabeth focuses on complex Commercial and Banking litigations including shareholder’s and partnership disputes. Her practical background of corporate and commercial matters enable her to advise a wide range of clients in the industrial sector. Elisabeth furthermore advises on compliance related  issues.

She is admitted to the Luxembourg Bar since 1997

Languages: French, English, German, Luxembourgish, Polish, Russian, Spanish

Education

•         Université de Tours, France,  Post graduate degree in European Law (Master II), 1994
•         Université Robert Schumann, France, Master degree in General Law, 1993
•         London School of Economics, UK, Erasmus scholarship, 1992

Elisabeth’s profile on Bonn Steichen & Partners’ website.

Filip Maksymilian Bloch

Francis Parisis

Having been at the forefront of the wealth management industry for over 20 years, Francis has seen it evolve to meet the needs of the next generation of clients. His career has taken him to numerous countries and continents spanning companies including Citco and latterly IQ-EQ, working across Fund and Private Wealth management in both Hedge and Private Equity, Real Estate services.

Inna Uwarowa

Inna Uwarowa graduated with a master’s degree from the Faculty of Power and Aeronautical Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology, where she specialized in space systems engineering.

For 2,5 Inna was the first ESA ESERO-Poland (European Space Education Resource Office) project manager at Copernicus Science Centre. She’s still head of jury for National CanSat competition. Since 2012 Inna has been the project manager of the student satellite project “PW-Sat2”, which had been launched into orbit on 3rd Dec 2018. Since 2015 had been a business development manager at Future Processing and a part of technical authority at FP Space consortium.

Currently she’s leading In-Space Services – a space company based in Luxembourg.

Jean-François Faucher

Jean-François graduated from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Montreal. He also graduated from the Executive MBA at ESSEC, a leading business school in Paris. He began his professional career in the aerospace and defense industries, serving airlines and air forces

throughout North America, for a subsidiary of Cobham PLC. He worked for leading technology consulting companies such as Altran and Segula Technologies in the field of business process outsourcing for various industries.

Jean-Francois started logistics operations in Poland in 2006 as the President of STACI Polska. After the separation of STACI, currently XBS Group, he came to Poland in 2012, where he is a shareholder and President of the XBS Group Supervisory Board and the President of the Management Board of PRO-LOG (Logistics service of excise goods).

Jean-Marc Ueberecken

Arendt & Medernach SA – Company description

Jean-Marc´s  CV

Contact:

E-mail: jean-marc.ueberecken@arendt.com

Josée Weydert

Josée Weydert is the managing partner of NautaDutilh Luxembourg, where she heads the Luxembourg Banking & Finance practice. Josée specialises in financing, securitisation, (debt and equity) capital markets and financial regulatory matters.

Josée is a trusted advisor of numerous financial institutions, financial professionals and corporate groups. Due to her extensive experience working in the capital markets and structured finance departments at a well-known Luxembourg bank, she has particularly strong expertise in the banking and capital markets fields.

With more than 25 years of legal experience, Josée enjoys high recognition among both market players and clients. In 2020, Josée was named a Leading Expert in Banking & Finance Law in Luxembourg by Chambers Europe and as a Women Leader by the IFLR1000. Chambers notes that she has “profound knowledge of the products and services marketed in Luxembourg’s financial market and excellent working relationships with the government and regulators” and that clients value her “depth of expertise and long-standing experience in the banking industry”.

Josée and her team contribute regularly to various publications, including The Luxembourg Banking & Finance Comparative Guide (The Legal 500, 2019) and an article entitled “PSD2 Implementation in the Grand Duchy – Six Months Later” (ILO, 2019).

Josée obtained her law degree from the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg (1992) and subsequently completed the two-year programme for young banking executives at the Luxembourg Training Institute for Banking (1995). She regularly speaks at conferences on topics relating to the financial sector.

Josée was admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 1993.

She is a Luxembourg native and is fluent in English, French, German and Luxembourgish.

Małgorzata Podrecka

• Joined CANPACK shortly after the company was established
• Responsible for Legal, Compliance, Sustainability and PR
• Since 2019 r. a member of the Entrepreneurship Council, an advisory body to the President of Republic of Poland
• In 2011-2017, vice president of the Lewiatan Court of Arbitration
• Graduated from Jagiellonian University (Post-Doctoral Degree). Studied at KU Leuven and the LMU in Munich

Martine Gerber-Lemaire

Mateusz Pondel

After developing a professional career internationally in Finance and being passionate about new technologies, Mateusz decided to create AQTEEV, a recruitment agency specialised in attracting the finest IT and Finance profiles to Luxembourg. 

Knowledge of the local market together with strong connections all over Europe help him find the best fit for top talents and companies. 

Natalia Bernardini Zurawska, CFA

Natalia is a Manager in EY Luxembourg, Transaction Financial Engineering & Transfer Pricing department (TFE TP). She is a CFA charterholder and Registered Accountant in Luxembourg (Expert Comptable).

She assists private equity and real estate investors and multinational groups in their transactions, in particular acquisitions, sales and mergers. She focuses on transfer pricing, valuation and accounting matters.

TFE TP is part of a bigger tax department, which can advise on all aspects of structuring companies’ transactions from the setup of companies, through advising on tax and related matters during the lifetime of the investment to disposal.

Detailed expertise:

• Analysing and modelling the financial impacts of restructuring plans as well as advising on financial, accounting and transfer pricing implications of proposed transactions, in particular in case of sales, mergers and acquisitions
• Providing ad hoc advisory and guidance to real estate companies in relation to contemplated transactions
• Computation of arm’s length remunerations for intragroup financing activities
• Credit risk analysis credit risk assessment of borrowers, review of legal documentation, benchmarking of arm’s length interest rates on financial instruments
• Review and preparation of company and asset valuations
• Elaboration of transfer pricing reports.
• Elaboration of accounting memorandums.
• Preparation of financial projections for business modelling and valuation purposes
• Specialised in real estate and private equity transactions

Detailed education background:

• CFA charterholder
• Expert Comptable (Luxembourg Registered Accountant)
• Master in Finance and Accounting at the Warsaw School of Economics (Poland) following study programs in Kedge Business School (France) and Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
• Diploma in Management Accounting of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (United Kingdom)
• Languages:

• Polish – native
• English – fluent
• French – fluent
• German – advanced
• Italian – upper intermediate
• Luxembourgish – lower intermediate

Neil Cocker

Neil is a Co-Founder and Director at Tomorrow Street, a Luxembourg-based scaleup accelerator and joint venture between Vodafone and Technoport. He has 19 years’ experience in procurement, supply chain management, and product development for global brands such as Johnnie Walker and Vodafone. Neil holds an MBA from the Open University Business School and is an experienced keynote speaker and blogger on startup topics.

Patrick Berg

Patrick started his professional career in 1998 as Marketing Manager Assistant for an American pneumatic tool manufacturer based in Wormeldange-Haut Two years later, at the age of 29, he became Sales & Marketing Manager for Benelux and Germany. In 2007 he took the post of deputy director of a car dealership in Junglinster. He contributed to the renewal and expansion of the company’s services and became its director in 2010. In June 2015 he was appointed as the General Manager by the Board of Directors of Domaines Vinsmoselle and he took over the management of the wine cooperative in August of the same year.

Parick’s CV

Pawel Wroblewski

KPMG – company description

KPMG Luxembourg, Société coopérative

39, Avenue John F. Kennedy

L-1855 Luxembourg

Paweł Hermeliński

Pawel Hermeliński is a partner of CMS Luxembourg Corporate/M&A practice group. As such, he assists financial institutions, private equity investors and multinational groups on M&A and joint venture transactions, as well as on the structuring and restructuring of corporate groups.

He focuses on Luxembourg corporate and contract law and has extensive experience in the field of national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, structuring of joint venture investments and organising exits.

Pawel speaks fluently Polish, French and English. He was admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 2008.

Recognition

• The Legal 500 2018: Ranked in Commercial, Corporate and M&A in Luxembourg (Tier 3). His clients describe him as “incredibly knowledgeable”.

Education

• 2003, Master’s Degree in Law, University of Warsaw, Poland

Pierre-Regis Dukmedjian

Pierre-Régis is a tax partner with significant experience on tax structuring of cross-border transactions and on-going tax management. As such, he handles high-value tax matters for asset managers and financial institutions which have operations in or through Luxembourg.

Piotr Kozikowski

Piotr Zaczek

Piotr has over 25 years’ experience in custody, depositary and administration services for funds domiciled in Poland and Luxembourg gained at Deutsche Bank S.A. in both locations as Executive Director and conducting officer.
For 18 years (1998 – 2016) Piotr was also member of Executive Committee of Custodian Bank Council at Polish Banks Association, and in 2005 – 2016 he was member and Head of Advisory Board to Management Board of National Depository for Securities (KDPW S.A.) in Poland. In 2016 Piotr was awarded Polish National Bank’ medal of honour “for merits for the Banking Industry”.

Przemyslaw Bielicki

Przemyslaw has over 21 years of experience in the financial services industry. He joined Royalton Partners in 1997.

Przemyslaw is a conducting officer and member of the management board of Royalton Partners S. A. He is also a member of investment committees and director of investment funds managed by Royalton Partners and member of the boards of portfolio companies engaged in infrastructure, real estate and IT.

Prior to joining Royalton Partners, Przemyslaw was the CEO of W. Frackowiak & Partners, now F5, an M&A and management consulting firm based in Poland. He served as a non-executive board member of several construction companies.

Przemyslaw started his career as a civil engineer in the construction industry and holds a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Poznan and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Raymond Krawczykowski

Tad Robinski

Co-founder and managing director of KR Group. A statutory auditor authorised in Poland and the UK, a member of ICAEW and ACA holder. Tad worked as an auditor at Deloitte in London. His international career developed further through his move to Deloitte’s Warsaw office in 1996. At that time, he was overseeing audits for the leading investments funds and manufacturing companies operating in Poland. Later, he served as financial director at PWN – the leading publisher in Poland. Tad is a top-notch specialist in Poland in a field of financial and accounting services dedicated to the commercial real estate sector. He was involved in a variety of successful transactions on real estate market in Poland (asset-deal; share-deal) representing either the purchaser or seller. Experienced Nominee Director also for the SPVs operating in the Czech Republic.  Privately he is a rowing great enthusiast.

William R. Watson

Bill has extensive experience in Polish and Central European private equity investments having made his first principal investment for EBRD in 1992. He has raised and managed multiple private equity funds and invested in companies across the region, serving as an active member of their Boards. He has been involved in the industry as a member of the Invest Europe and EMPEA Councils and served as Chairman of Invest Europe’s Professional Standards Committee.