Located in the heart of one of the world’s main financial centers, DSM Avocats à la Cour provides its national and international clientele multidisciplinary, multilingual services suited to Luxembourg’s current environment. The firm’s lawyers are recognized experts in several legal practice areas, including company, financial, real estate, tax and digital law, as well dispute resolution. DSM Avocats à la Cour is a member of independent, international legal networks.
DSM Avocats à la Cour is a law firm located in Luxembourg, a financial hub not only for investments in and out of Europe and the Middle East, but also in and out of Asia and North America. The firm is regularly called upon to assist in domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional corporate and M&A matters. DSM advises on general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, public and private tenders, mergers and divisions, share and asset deals, joint ventures, liquidations, corporate governance and compliance, managerial and other governing body liability and corporate finance.
DSM’s multi-faceted approach
Our Corporate and M&A team assists our clients in all document drafting and negotiation associated with their transactions including due diligence; incorporation of special purpose vehicles in the context of investment and business activity structuring; the transfer or assignment of real estate; the creation of charges and all types of guarantees; leasehold agreements and rights (bail emphythéotique, droit de superficie); and, corporate financing, including drafting of the necessary legal opinions.
Corporate and M&A is always tied to tax issues and DSM’s Corporate and M&A department works closely with its Tax Law department to devise the best solutions for client business activities.
Additionally, DSM provides day-to-day corporate support for company structures, organises the holding of shareholder general meetings and board of director or supervisory board meetings and represents shareholders at those general meetings.
The firm’s lawyers specialising in this area cover the entire panorama of real estate issues: obtaining administrative permits for general and specific development plans and environmental permits, dealing with urban planning issues, corporate structuring, including real estate sales and the sale of shares, financing, contracts for transfers, rentals, guarantees and surface area (contrat de superficie), and providing representation and counsel in civil and administrative disputes over issues such as construction, co-ownership and guarantees.
Throughout the year, our specialists participate in local and international real estate conferences, seminars and fairs (MIPIM, ExpoReal).
The DSM team handles national and international matters, the complexity of which places it at the forefront in keeping current with public policy developments. Our in-depth understanding of European and Luxembourg jurisprudence gives us an advantage in providing advice and representation in cases involving multiple claims and parties.
Litigation involves not only thorough understanding of the legislation in all areas of law, but also sound experience and a suitable strategy, all of which DSM provides. The litigation team’s aim is to ensure efficient, prompt and cost-effective legal services.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) techniques are geared towards cost-effective and timely dispute resolution, and arbitration is part of the firm’s practice at DSM, which has experience in high-level cases submitted to international arbitration, including to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Mediation is also proposed by our specialist lawyers together with consultancy on ADR processes.
The DSM team specializing in employment law and social security law brings its corporate experience to its clients, as well as its experience of several years in providing advice and defence in this practice area.
Labour law being a legal environment that fluctuates highly according to the whims of legislative developments as well as case law and its reversals, DSM assists and advises you throughout the employment relationship, and as necessary, negotiates its termination.
In this area of specialization, we advise companies, individual employees, staff representatives, associations and organisations. DSM assists you at each step of the employment relationship:
We also advise in a precautionary capacity when clients negotiate complex issues such as collective dismissals and social plans with personnel, staff representation and unions. In these situations we seek a pragmatic solution. We assist companies in the context of their relations with the various administrations. In the scope of our duties we manage information and do our utmost to promote good relations with those administrations.
The firm assists and defends its clients not only before labour courts (regarding resignations dismissals, serious misconduct claims and dismissal for economic reasons), but also before criminal courts adjudicating employment law, as well as workplace health and safety violations.
DSM’s focus is to remain a firm that operates on a human scale and maintains direct, ongoing and personalized relationships with its clients.
Our team comprises highly skilled lawyers who operate with an in-depth knowledge of the applicable legal, regulatory and commercial environments. Their expertise extends to corporate and commercial, finance, dispute resolution, real estate, employment and pensions, intellectual property, regulatory and tax matters.
DSM Avocats à la Cour advises a variety of clients in bankruptcy and insolvency cases, both in the bankruptcy courts and in out-of-court restructurings. Our specialists also advise on company management, insolvency administrators, guarantors and creditors in any phase of a bankruptcy or insolvency.
DSM’s expertise in criminal law and white collar crime matters is recognised in Luxembourg. The firm’s team of criminal lawyers advises and represents parties before criminal courts as defendants as well as plaintiffs.
DSM’s criminal law expertise covers money laundering, mutual legal assistance (MLA), the misappropriation of funds, market abuse, corruption and tax fraud. DSM also advises company and enterprise directors, particularly financial sector professionals, on the rapidly growing phenomenon of the criminalisation of economic and commercial activities, especially financial activities, requiring special diligence.
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