Philippe Dupont, Claude Niedner Elected Chairmen of Arendt & Medernach

As is the case every three years, the partners of Arendt & Medernach have decided on the new governance of the Luxembourg law firm.

Philippe Dupont and Claude Niedner have been elected as Chairmen of Arendt & Medernach, while Jean-Marc Ueberecken has been re-elected Managing Partner.

For his part, Philippe Dupont is a Founding Partner and Chairman of Arendt & Medernach. He is a member of both the Bank Lending & Structured Finance and the Banking & Financial Services practices of Arendt & Medernach. He specialises in banking and finance with a focus on bank regulatory, lending, structured finance, securities settlement and litigation in finance matters.  

Philippe Dupont has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1986 and chairs the working group on credit activities at the level of the Haut Comité de la Place Financière (HCPF). He is a Conciliator and Arbitrator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In the past, Mr Dupont was a member of the Luxembourg delegation and of the drafting group of the Unidroit Convention on substantive rules for intermediated securities and of the Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention on international interests in mobile equipment on matters specific to railway rolling stock. He was also a member of various expert groups set up by the European Commission. 

Similarly, Claude Niedner is a Partner and Chairman of Arendt & Medernach, who specialises in investment funds and works in the UCITS, hedge funds and real estate areas. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1993 and is chairman of the Alternative Investments Committee of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI). Mr Niedner is also member of the Alternative Investment Funds working group at the level of the HCPF, where he participates in many initiatives regarding the development of the Luxembourg alternative funds sector. He is a regular speaker at international conferences on investment funds related topics. 

Last but not least, Jean-Marc Ueberecken is the Managing Partner of Arendt & Medernach. His leadership is focussed on driving innovation at the firm in order to continue creating new services, new products and above all, new ways of providing services to clients. Mr Ueberecken has maintained that great lawyers are made, not born and that training is essential to allow employees to meet rising regulatory complexity, the requirements of the digital revolutions and changing needs of clients. 

Jean-Marc Ueberecken is a corporate law and mergers & acquisitions partner by trade, with wide experience in the provision of advice to multinational corporations, major commercial companies and ambitious domestic entrepreneurs in connection with mergers and acquisitions, complex multi-jurisdictional corporate restructurings, change of control transactions including tender and exchange offers, acquisitions and sales of companies, joint ventures, as well as voluntary or forced liquidations. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1998 and was a member of the Brussels Bar from 2000 to 2008. He served as member and secretary of the governing body (Conseil de l'ordre) of the Luxembourg Bar from 2004 to 2006. Mr Ueberecken was also a lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Luxembourg in leveraged buy-outs from 2007 to 2013, in legal methodology from 2000 until 2006, in finance law from 2003 until 2006, in commercial and corporate law from 2002 until 2004 and in general jurisprudence from 2005 until 2007. 

Arendt & Medernach is a leading legal, tax and business services firm in Luxembourg, with over 850 professionals.