Practice
Five areas. One desk. No handoffs.
Each area below is advised by the same senior consultant, which matters more than it sounds: most interesting questions now sit across two of them. In every area we distinguish black-letter law, regulator practice, and market practice — stated separately, because they are not the same thing.
Core services
Company administration, compliance, digitalisation
- Business administration — corporate routine, boards, filings, and substance
- Compliance — AML/KYC, perimeter, and framework design
- Digitalisation — automation of administrative and compliance workflows
- CBAM — exposure, declarant status, and certificate planning
01 — Regulation
Financial services regulation & compliance
Perimeter, authorisation, and compliance questions before the CSSF and under EU financial services law — answered at the level your board and your counsel actually need.
- CSSF practice: perimeter assessments, authorisation strategy, regulator correspondence and file preparation
- MiFID II: licensing scope, product governance, exemptions, cross-border service questions
- Prospectus Regulation and Euro MTF listings: disclosure architecture, listing route selection, ongoing obligations
- AML/KYC: framework design, risk assessments, remediation after findings
Representative matter types
- Perimeter assessment for a cross-border service model touching Luxembourg clients, with a licensing-versus-exemption recommendation
- Euro MTF listing route analysis for a note programme, including disclosure and ongoing-obligation mapping against a regulated-market alternative
02 — Structuring
Luxembourg securitisation & structuring
Structuring under the 2004 Securitisation Law and adjacent vehicles — designed for how the structure will actually be run, not only for how it reads at closing.
- Securitisation SPVs and compartments under the 2004 Law: design, documentation review, lifecycle questions
- Fiduciary estates and fund structures where a securitisation vehicle is not the right answer
- Operational substance and tax/regulatory structuring: board, delegation, and service-provider architecture
- Restructuring and liquidation of existing vehicles, including orphaned and legacy structures
Representative matter types
- Substance review of an existing securitisation platform against current tax and regulator expectations, with a remediation plan the board can adopt
- Wind-down design for a legacy compartment structure, sequencing creditor, tax, and service-provider steps
03 — Tokenisation
Institutional tokenisation & DLT
Tokenised instruments for institutional issuers and platforms — perimeter first, technology second. This is a securities practice that understands DLT, not a crypto practice.
- MiCA v MiFID perimeter analysis: is the token a financial instrument, a crypto-asset, or neither — and what follows from each answer
- Tokenised securities issuance design under the Luxembourg Blockchain Laws, including register and settlement questions
- ERC-3643 permissioned-token architecture: transfer restrictions, eligibility, and compliance logic on-chain
- DLT Pilot Regime fit assessments for trading and settlement models
Representative matter types
- Perimeter assessment for a tokenised note programme under MiCA v MiFID II, with an issuance structure recommendation
- Post-transition remediation review for a platform whose activities were not authorised by the end of the MiCA transitional period
04 — Carbon & energy
Carbon & energy markets
Carbon cost and cross-border electricity questions for importers, traders, and industrials — quantified, not merely described.
- CBAM: exposure assessment, authorised declarant status, embedded emissions methodology, certificate planning
- EU ETS: scope and exposure questions, interaction with CBAM and national measures
- Electricity imports and cross-border flows: CBAM treatment, guarantees of origin, contractual pass-through
- Grid and balancing arrangements as they bear on commercial and regulatory exposure
Representative matter types
- CBAM exposure quantification for an electricity importer, including default-value versus actual-emissions strategy
- Threshold analysis for a borderline goods importer under the post-Omnibus 50-tonne annual de minimis
05 — Risk & operations
Risk management & operational consulting
Risk frameworks and AI-driven automation for regulated businesses — built by someone who has to defend the regulatory analysis, not just the process diagram.
- Risk management frameworks sized for SMEs and mid-sized regulated firms, not scaled down from bank templates
- AI-driven automation of compliance and operational workflows, with the regulatory constraints designed in from the start
- Operational reviews ahead of regulator inspections, audits, or transactions
Representative matter types
- Design of an automated transaction-monitoring and escalation workflow for a mid-sized regulated firm, documented to audit standard
- Pre-inspection operational review covering governance, outsourcing, and record-keeping against current regulator expectations
Next step
Bring the question, not the brief.
Two paragraphs by email are enough to establish whether the matter fits the practice. A short call generally clarifies scope and feasibility.