Bonn & Schmitt

Highly rated by international publications and legal directories, our team provides expert advice to national and multinational groups, private equity firms, international and local banks, companies, individuals as well as private families, on the incorporation of legal entities, day-to-day corporate formalities, corporate governance, shareholders’ agreements and corporate reorganisations and restructuring for listed and private companies in all their forms.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Bonn & Schmitt regularly advises national and international clients on complex cross-border and domestic transactions both individually or as part of a joint venture and our firm provides in this context inter alia due diligence services, contract negotiations and follow-up, structuring and restructuring services, regulatory and competition assessment, involving also administrative and labour law aspects. 

With a team that has worked on the headline transactions in Luxembourg, over the last 25 years, we have gained a deep experience in this field from being  involved in most  of the major transactions.

Our insurance law team regularly advises major insurance and re-insurance companies operating in the European market on regulatory matters and represents them in their dealings with the insurance regulatory agency in Luxembourg (the “Commissariat aux Assurances”) as well as ensuring compliance with applicable rules during corporate restructuring.

Our team also assists in the review of insurance contracts including general terms and conditions.

Our team advises on real estate law, construction law and urbanism law.

We advise all actors in the real estate sector, namely: owners, lessors, tenants, trustees, real estate agents, developers, contractors and architects and engineers, in all their projects from A-Z, on liability (legal, contractual and tortious), drafting mandates, company contracts, subcontracting contracts and temporary partnership contracts.

We advise real estate professionals and non-professionals on all their conflict and non-conflict situations as well as in their dealings with public administrations. We represent our clients’ interests before the administrative and Luxembourg courts.

In the field of construction law, we advise more specifically on construction site litigation and the liability of builders and insurers.

In real estate law, we advise on the drafting and negotiation of leases (residential leases, professional leases, firm leases), occupancy agreements, sureties and guarantees, sub-leasing, assignment, renewal, termination, judicial determination of rents and eviction and occupation indemnities. We also advise on rent and expense recovery litigation.

Finally, our team also advises on urban planning, in particular in the context of the establishment and modification of development projects (PAP establishment or modification, PAG modification, assistance for claims, project management assistance, environmental law, etc.), building permit applications, changes of use, classified establishments (commodo-incommodo). We regularly take action before administrative and civil courts in this area.

The lawyers of the firm advise and represent clients in labour law and social security law.

Our team assists and advises both companies and employees, employee representatives and associations throughout an employment relationship. 

Alain GROSJEAN and is the Luxembourg representative in matters of labour law within the IRGLOBAL network.

We support our clients through to the conclusion of employment contracts (probationary period, fixed-term contracts, indefinite period contracts, contract clauses), the execution of the employment contract, and in the event of termination of the employment contract (dismissal, resignation, termination by mutual agreement).

We also intervene as a preventive measure when it comes to negotiating complex issues with staff, employee representatives and trade unions, including collective redundancies and social plans.

We assist companies in their administrative procedures.

The firm represents and assists its clients before the labour courts of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Bonn & Schmitt advises domestic and international clients in civil, commercial and corporate cases, including complex shareholders’ litigation, contract litigation and professional liability.

We assist lenders, shareholders, creditors and debtors at every stage of bankruptcy and insolvency litigation procedures as well as in cross-border enforcement matters.

The firm also advises on civil liability: tort and contractual liability, including liability under common law, liability of bankers and professionals in the financial sector, liability of manufacturers (judicial expertise, failure to respect delivery times, defects and faulty workmanship,…), responsibility of doing things, responsibility of the constituents because of their agents, responsibility for defective products, etc.

Furthermore, our team is widely experienced in arbitration and dispute resolution and regularly represents clients in arbitration proceedings under both ICC rules and Luxembourg law.

We also provide the full range of banking and finance litigation services and represent our clients in dealings with the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LSE) and the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF).

The significant experience in the field of dispute resolution and the understanding of European and Luxembourg case law makes the firm a privileged partner to advise and represent clients before all Luxembourg jurisdictions, in order to ensure the best possible outcome for our clients. The practice of litigation includes representation and assistance before the highest courts of Luxembourg, as well as before the Court of Justice of the European Union (Luxembourg) and the European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg).

The field of litigation requires not only a thorough knowledge of legislation in all areas, but also a long-term experience as well as an adapted strategy, which the law firm is able to provide.  Our lawyers adopt a pragmatic and effective approach and always encourage an out-of-court solution to lengthy court proceedings, such as domestic and international arbitrations or mediation.

Our team of criminal lawyers advises and represents clients before national and international criminal courts, during all phases of criminal proceedings, both for their defense and as civil parties – victims.

We provide effective assistance and defense in all criminal matters and more generally we also advise in the prevention of a risk in criminal matters. 

Cédric BELLWALD is recognised for its expertise in Criminal Law in general, and particularly in the field of White Collar Crime.

The criminal expertise of the firm includes anti-corruption and anti-money laundering issues, mutual legal assistance (MLA), seizure of funds/bank accounts, misappropriation of funds, market abuse, corruption and fraud (including tax fraud). 

The law firm also advises directors of companies, particularly professionals of the financial sector, with respect to the expanding criminalisation of economic and commercial activities, particularly financial activities, which require special supervision and assessment.