Jean-Yves Lhommel > PwC Legal Luxembourg > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile
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L-2182 LUXEMBOURG
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Jean-Yves Lhommel
Work Department
Corporate (including International Business Reorganisation) Real Estate & Tax
Position
Jean-Yves has a strong background with more than 20 years of experience in international tax and international business reorganisations. He has notably spent more than 10 years with “Magic Circle” law firms.
He experienced amongst: post-acquisition simplification of the Luxembourg holding structure of a multinational industrial group; implementation of the financing and cash pooling center for a Swedish industrial group; rationalisation of the holding structure of the real estate part of a sovereign fund; partial demerger of the management entity of a regulated life insurance company; cross-border merger of a German operating company into a Luxembourg company being active in the same sector; debt to equity swaps for the Luxembourg companies of several international groups.
Jean-Yves is responsible for Luxembourg corporate services, assisting mainly multinational groups through their implementation and restructuring processes. This notably includes in-bound and out-bound migrations, domestic and cross-border mergers, demergers, liquidations, etc. He is also involved in both international and domestic real estate deals.
Career
Jean-Yves is a Partner within PwC Legal since 2018
Languages
French, English, German
Education
Degree in law, Universté Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), 1995
Special degree in tax law, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), 1997
Lawyer Rankings
Luxembourg > Commercial, corporate and M&A
The ‘very professional, efficient and attentive’ team at PwC Legal Luxembourg provides ‘sharp and to-the-point advice’ to domestic and international companies and funds across a broad range of transactional and day-to-day corporate matters. Catherine Baflast spearheads the firm’s M&A efforts, regularly handling buy and sell instructions both in relation to corporate and private equity-led mandates. Jean-Yves Lhommel leads the corporate services offering, handling M&A matters as well as advising multinational corporates on migration projects and internal corporate reorganisations and de-mergers. Both elements of the practice are also enhanced by the firm’s overarching tax advisory expertise and its international network.
Luxembourg > Private equity
At PwC Legal Luxembourg, Catherine Baflast has vast experience advising private equity sponsors on establishing Luxembourg investment structures to facilitate downstream investment activity. Jean-Yves Lhommel co-heads the team alongside Baflast and is noted for his corporate structuring and reorganisation prowess.