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

Anna Wiaz

Anna has a 10-year of experience with the Luxembourg fund industry. She has extensive knowledge of the alternative investments sector. Before joining TMF Group, she spent 3 years helping to build up alternative funds expertise at an AIFM. Prior to this, she worked with different Central Administrators in Luxembourg, where she was looking after their institutional clients with alternative investment funds. Anna started her career in Luxembourg with EY as an auditor of investment funds. Anna studied business administration, law and finance in France and speaks fluently 3 languages: English, French and Polish.

Anne Morel

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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 BUISINE

With 14 years of experience Cédric specialises in the fields of Regulation, Investment Funds, capital markets and private debt.

Cédric advises Asset Managers, IFA’s, Real Estate Asset Managers, private equity platforms on the the implementation of regulated pooling and investment vehicles subject to Luxembourg Law (RAIF, SIF, AIF, SCS (LP)/SCSp(SLP) and securitisation structures) as well as investment companies and financial service providers to obtain the correct regulated licences and alignment with the evolution of the European and Luxembourg regulation (LSF 93, MIFID, GDPR, ABL/FT, …).

Cédric also regularly advises on regulatory matters regarding alternative investments and in particular the setting up of private debt funds.

Furthermore, Cédric advises on and structures sophisticated securitisation operations as well as the issue of debt securities including listing on the Luxembourg capital markets for European institutional clients.

Cédric has a Masters degree with distinction in Business Law from Paris XII University and a postgraduate degree in Information and Multimedia Technology Law from Paris II Panthéon-Assas University. He also has a diploma from Durham Law School (Ustinov College) where he obtained an LL.M in International Business Law.

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

Eric T. Engelmeyer

With 20+ years of experience in Private Banking and Wealth Management, Eric has spent most of his career advising High- to Ultra-High Net Worth Individuals.

On the day-to-day, Eric and his team at Société Générale Private Banking deal with all aspects of their clients’ wealth: from managing their investment portfolios to helping them think and design their wealth planning and succession planning.
Eric also deals with his clients’ financing needs (Lombard lending, mortgage, or corporate) and regularly assists them with their passion investments (vineyards and art just to name a few).

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.

Janine Kewerkopf

Janine has always been enthusiastic about the tourism sector and especially the travel industry.

She has been working in this sector for more than 25 years and shows a long sales history, in-depth professional experience and good connections within industry & associations.

She likes to capture new sales opportunities and build up customer relationships for long term and repeat business.

Working in this international atmosphere she speaks German (native), English (fluent), Luxemburgish (fluent), French (conversational).

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-François Trapp

Jean-François Trapp is a partner and co-heads the Real Estate Department and the Banking & Finance practise at Baker McKenzie Luxembourg office. He has more than 20 years of experience in Luxembourg law. Prior to joining the Firm, he was partner in a Luxembourg law firm, where he headed the Real Estate department and co-led the Banking & Finance department of the firm. In 2007, he co-founded the Luxembourg law firm Roemers Trapp Pautot, a niche firm focusing on the real estate, real assets and infrastructure sectors.

Jean-François is the Vice-President and an Executive Board Member of LuxReal, the Luxembourg association of the professionals of the real estate sector.

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.

Katarzyna Ozga

Katarzyna Ozga, born in Poland, studied International Relations at the University of Warsaw, and then she did her degree in European Interdisciplinary Studies followed by Master in European Law in France, both at the University Robert Schumann of Strasbourg.
In September 2003 Katarzyna joined the Eurimages Secretariat in Strasbourg where she worked as Administrative Assistant and Administrator until December 2005. Then she worked for several European and international film festivals e.g. Petersburg, Seville for two years. Having completed Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris in 2008 Katarzyna came to Saarland (Germany) where she was appointed as Managing Director of the Saarland Film Commission. During this time, she gave lectures in film production at the HBKsaar (“School of Fine Arts”) in Saarbruecken.
Between May 2012 and December 2014, she was a production and project manager by Lucil Film (Luxembourg). Following the merger between Lucil and Samsa Film, she worked as a Head of Distribution and Promotion for Samsa Film. Katarzyna joined Iris Productions in January 2016 as a Head of Production.  Since 2019 she is a General Manager of Iris Group and recently, she become a Producer within the company.
Katarzyna is member of two French-German film associations: Atelier Network (www.atelier-network.org) and the French-German Film Academy.

Luc Maquil

Luc gained over 19 years a vast amount of experience as an IT specialist focusing on Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, Risk Management, and IT Compliance.

Luc started his career at IBM Böblingen Labs in 2001 in the Research and Development of IBM’s EAI and later SOA product portfolio. He later worked at KPMG between 2012 and 2015 within the IT Advisory Department.

In 2015, Luc launched BHS S.A., which became MAQIT S.A. in 2017. As Managing Partner, he is in charge of Digital Transformation and Regulatory IT Advisory. His purpose is to assist multiple FinTech players in settling down in the EU and got involved in large-scale projects related to regulatory advisory and IT transformation.

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. 

Monika Wójcik

As a business consultant, focused on identifying the needs of each Client and designing a dedicated solution. With many years of practice in the field of project management and effective building relationships with Clients at the local and global level, supports organizations in building awareness of diverse business solutions available in a wide range of TMF services. Shares knowledge and experience based on current outsourcing trends and local expertise in the field of HR administration, payroll solutions, tax compliance and accounting field.

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.

Olivier Bertrand

Olivier has 20+ years of international tax and transaction tax exposure across multiple sectors including multinational companies, banks and alternative investment funds. He is advising international, also Polish, clients (such as Alternative Investment Funds, Institutional Investors, Corporate Groups) throughout the life cycle of their investments, from deal structuring to return to investors and management. His recent experience includes:

• Advising on Investment platform set-up taking into consideration major development like ATAD I&II, Principal Purpose Test etc.
• Advising on fund set-up for top tier asset managers setting-up funds in Luxembourg;
• Design of a US Debt Fund platform for EU investors.
• Advice in connection with cross-jurisdictions fund mergers and coordination of the project throughout the various countries.
• Carried Interest structuring and optimization of GP commitments
• Advising on various acquisitions, disposals and refinancing of assets owned by Alternative Investment Funds.

Olivier has graduated from HEC Liège.

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.

Tamas Mark

Tamas Mark is Client Director and Head of Real Estate at IQ-EQ Luxembourg.

Tamas acts as key relationship manager to a dedicated portfolio of Real Estate clients and is responsible for driving the Real Estate strategy for Luxembourg. He is also a member of the valuation committee of our third party AIFM.

Professional
Prior to joining IQ-EQ, he held a number of strategic senior leadership roles including most recently as Director Real Estate and Business Unit Director, Real Estate Solutions with a Luxembourg based investor services group. His experience also includes a three-year period as a Senior Manager for Corporate & Tax Services with a niche Luxembourg based law firm as well as senior tax advisory roles with two of the Big 4 accountancy practices.
Tamas is a chartered accountant, certified tax advisor, MRICS qualified and part of various industry leading working groups in Luxembourg. A native Hungarian speaker, Tamás is fluent in English and has intermediate knowledge in French and German.

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.

Wojciech Kowalczuk

With over 10 years of experience in the Polish legal industry, Wojciech focuses his practice in law mostly in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions, real estate and corporate advisory. He is mostly involved in acquisitions of various classes of assets located in Poland. Among others, Wojciech advises on the acquisition of renewable energy power plants (wind and solar), real estates (commercial, agricultural and residential), production sites, farms, shopping malls, warehouses and office buildings in share deal as well as asset deal formula.

He is also involved in various real estate matters advisory on spatial planning, acquisition of agricultural land, regulatory law, lease of real estates, premises and buildings, construction law and infrastructure matters of different kinds.

As an element of comprehensive services to various foreign investors, Wojciech provides corporate advisory helping to navigate through different compliance issues and current business matters of various corporate entities.

Privately he is a fan of vintage Italian cars and endurance sports.