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Overview

Baker McKenzie Luxembourg was enriched with the arrival of Diogo Duarte de Oliveira and his team from Stibbe, bringing experience in transactional and private equity tax matters. Practice specialties are sovereign wealth funds, private equity, tax controversy, and legislation transposition. Principals Amar Hamouche, and Antonio A. Weffer work alongside counsel Andrea Addamiano. Fellow partners Diogo Duarte de Oliveira and Olivier Dal Farra complement the practice.  

The firm assisted a professional services company in corporate restructuring replete with intricate cross-border taxation dimensions. It also advised an investment bank on an international acquisition and completed a bilateral APA.  

Associate Elise Boscher arrived from GSK Stockmann in March 2024 and senior associate Georgios Merkouriou joined from Elvinger Hoss Prussen in May 2024. Specialist Elodie Schmidt departed in February 2024.  

Client feedback  

‘’I have been collaborating with Andrea Addamiano. I can witness that I recognize those two persons as trusted advisors. The quality of the advice, the deliverables, and the relationship that I received is most appreciable. I recognize your firm, through them as trusted advisor.’’ 

‘’Baker McKenzie’s Luxembourg office excels in providing sophisticated legal solutions for cross-border corporate, tax, and investment fund matters, leveraging their global network to meet local market needs. Their collaborative and deep understanding of Luxembourg’s regulatory landscape ensure tailored, high-quality service for clients.’’ 

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Baker McKenzie Luxembourg was enriched with the arrival of Diogo Duarte de Oliveira and his team from Stibbe, bringing experience in transactional and private equity tax matters. Practice specialties are sovereign wealth funds, private equity, tax controversy and legislation. Principals Amar Hamouche and Antonio Weffer work alongside counsel Andrea Addamiano.

The firm implemented a cross-border reorganisation between two divisions of BTG Pactual Bank. It also advised a fund on asset structures as a co-investor in a deal valued at $1.5 billion.

Client feedback

“Technical expertise, truly partnering with us (availability at short notice, doing a lot of effort to get to know us better, providing spot-on advice and opinions).”

“Responsiveness, technical knowledge.”

“Extremely proactive firm and partners, and they do look for the best interest of the fund, hence the investors.”

“Comprehensive knowledge and great experience in international and domestic taxation.”

“Baker McKenzie has extensive expertise in tax and transfer pricing issues relating to holding companies. They have an integrated transfer pricing department with a partner and several economists, which is quite rare in the Luxembourg legal market. The tax practice of the Luxembourg office is quite robust.”

“Client focused, creative, rapid response.”

“Availability, technical expertise and listening to the client.”

“Very strong communication and clear advice.”

“The team works efficiently and gets the work done quickly and within our required timeline.”

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