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Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year Luxembourg

Firm Profile

Facing demand from clients for whom legal advice is more than just law, Stéphane Ober and Bernard Beerens created Ober & Beerens Avocats in October 2010, a firm which since then has grown into a leading and award-winning Luxembourg practice.

Thanks to its high associate-to-partner ratio, Ober & Beerens thrives in maintaining the highest standards of service.

Partners Profiles

Bernard Beerens Bernard Beerens is a founding partner with Ober & Beerens, specializing in corporate law, corporate finance, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, transactional business law and banking and finance

matters. He holds a Master's degree in law from the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). He has also studied at the Universita Degli Studi di Milano (Italy).

Prior to establishing Ober & Beerens, he worked for a major UK-based law firm then at the Luxembourg office of a leading Dutch law firm, advising clients on various corporate and finance transactions. During 2008 and 2009, he headed the Luxembourg desk of the corporate and finance department of the same firm in New York, mainly serving US and Canadian clients on Luxembourg legal matters.

He advises multinational clients, including major private equity firms, hedge funds and non-regulated real estate funds, on structuring and financing of international transactions, formation of joint venture and special purpose vehicles, corporate organizations and reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, exit strategies and corporate governance matters.

He further provides expert advice on complex financing activities with a focus on financial, banking, securitization and

restructuring transactions. He extensively represents lenders and borrowers in all types of financing transactions and advises on collateral arrangements,

financial

instruments and related transactional documents.

He is fluent in English, French, German and Luxembourgish

Stéphane Ober

Stéphane Ober is a founding partner and managing partner of Ober & Beerens.

Stéphane Ober studied both in France and in the United States of America. He graduated from University of

Nancy (France) where he obtained two Masters' degree in European law.

He holds an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in international transaction and comparative law from the University of San Francisco (2002), where he was an Ambassadorial Scholar for the Rotary Foundation.

Prior to establishing Ober & Beerens, he worked for leading Luxembourg law firms. He also launched and led the Luxembourg desk of a Dutch firm in London for two years, serving worldwide clients on all Luxembourg corporate and investment management legal matters.

Stéphane Ober is a member of the Paris Bar and the Luxembourg Bar.

Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2012

The firm is built on its partners' solid, ten-year experience of Luxembourg legal practice and international outlook and relies on cohesive teams of highly-qualified professionals.

Ober & Beerens focuses on certain areas of expertise only: corporate law, corporate finance, private equity, transactional business

law, banking and finance, investment management, litigation and arbitration and tax.

Ober & Beerens is a fully independent Luxembourg law firm and has developed non-exclusive close relationships with foreign law firms to provide seamless international service, whenever and wherever needed.

Areas of Expertise • Company law

• Corporate finance • Private equity • Transactional business law • Banking & finance • Investment management • Litigation and arbitration • Tax

Contact:

Ober & Beerens 37A Avenue JF Kennedy L-1855 Luxembourg Luxembourg

Bernard Beerens Telephone: +352 26 26 79-1 Fax: +352 26 26 79 89 Email: bbeerens@ober.lu

Stéphane Ober Tel: +352 26 26 79-1 Email: sober@ober.lu

Website: www.ober.lu 47