EUROPE

Bernard Beerens Mergers & acquisitions Luxembourg Bernard Beerens, partner

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

about ober & Beerens avocats

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.

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: Bernard Beerens Partner - Ober & Beerens

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