Luxembourg law firm, Arendt & Medernach, have carried out their customary triennial shake-up of the firm’s governance, electing Claude Kremer and Guy Harles as co-chairmen of the firm, with Jean-Marc Ueberecken continuing to serve as managing partner.
Guy Harles is a founding partner of Arendt & Medernach, of which he has been co-president for the last three years. Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 1980, he served as Bâtonnier from 2011 to 2012. Guy sits on the International Bar Association (IBA) committee dedicated to corporate law and mergers and acquisitions and is a member of the board of directors of Lex Mundi.
Guy specialises in corporate law and advises numerous clients on international structuring, mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments. He is also in charge of the private wealth business within the firm.
Claude Kremer is also a founding partner of Arendt & Medernach, where he has devoted his career to the investment fund and asset management industry, advising clients on the creation of Luxembourg investment and pension funds as well as on the structuring and development of activities of asset managers and other providers in the field of funds in Luxembourg.
Claude has sat on the board of directors of the International Investment Funds Association (IIFA) since October 2014. Before that, he was president of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), from 2011 to 2013, and from 2007 to 2011, he served as president of the Luxembourg Association of Investment Funds (ALFI). He is also a member of the steering committee of the Sovereign Intergenerational Fund set up by the Luxembourg government in December 2014.
Jean-Marc Ueberecken has specialised in mergers and acquisitions for fifteen years, and been a partner at Arendt & Medernach since 2005. He has been managing partner of the firm since the position was established in 2014.
