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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Luxembourg
Practice Areas:
Corporate and M&A
Private equity
Restructuring and insolvency
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
English
French
German
Luxembourgish
Biography

Patrick Santer focuses on private equity transactions, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate law generally. He is also active in dispute resolution, in particular commercial or shareholder litigation and data protection.

Practice areas
  • Corporate, mergers & acquisitions
  • Private equity / Acquisitions
  • Dispute resolution
  • Finance
  • Insolvency and restructuring
Recent transactional highlights
  • Provided legal assistance in the financial restructuring of the AccorInvest group
  • Assisted BC Partners in the acquisition of Keesing Media Group from Ergon Capital Partners S.A. and Mediahuis Nederland B.V.
  • Oakley Capital completes majority investment in 7NXT
  • Legal advice to Vitruvian Partners on the sale of Technogroup to Evernex
  • Corsair Capital acquires a majority stake in Zedra Group
  • QUEENSGATE 2023

More information you can find here. 

Bar admissions
  • Member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1995
Association memberships
  • Vice-President of the Council of State of Luxembourg and Chairman of its committee on economics and finance
  • Member of Luxembourg Parliament from October 1999 until March 2009
  • Former President of the FLBB (Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Basketball). Former member of the Council of the British-Luxembourg Society and current Patron of the British-Luxembourg Society.
  • Chairman of the supervisory board of UniCredit International Bank (Luxembourg) S.A..
Academic qualifications
  • DESS (diplôme d’études supérieures spécialisées) in European law from the Université François-Rabelais de Tours (France)
  • Maîtrise en droit from the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg (France)
Address:
Luxembourg
Tel:+352 44 66 44 7079 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.elvingerhoss.lu

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