Partner, Banking & Insurance

Arendt & Medernach

400

12

Professions libérales - Avocat

Luxembourg

N.C.

Anglais, Francais, Allemand, Luxembourgeois,

Philippe Dupont holds a Master's degree in law from the Université de Paris (France) and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (U.K.).

Philippe Dupont is a founding partner of the firm and presently serves as head of the firm’s industry group “Banking and Insurance”. He specialises in banking and finance and has considerable experience in bank regulatory matters as well as capital markets, lending securities and structured finance transactions.

He is a member of two legal advisory committees, of the securitisation committee, of the ad hoc interpretation group of the Prospectus Directive, of the ad hoc working group on the Market Abuse Directive, of the ad hoc working group on takeover bids and of the ad hoc working group on the Transparency Directive with the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, the regulatory authority of the financial sector in Luxembourg. He is also a member of the drafting group of the Unidroit convention project on Harmonised Substantive Rules regarding Securities held with an Intermediary and was the Luxembourg expert at the Hague Convention on the law applicable to certain rights in respect of securities held with an intermediary. Philippe Dupont was a member of the Luxembourg delegation and of the drafting group at the diplomatic conference leading to the Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention on international interests in mobile equipment on matters specific to railway rolling stock. He is also a member of the EU Clearing and Settlement - Legal Certainty Group set up by the European Commission.

He is a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1986. He is a Conciliator and Arbitrator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He is a visiting lecturer in securities law at the University of Luxembourg.