The ‘efficient and friendly’ team at Linklaters is best-known for its aptitude at handling funds and banking-related litigation, where it ’excels in providing out-of-the box thinking.’ Team head Guy Loesch provides ‘strategic advice with added-value’ both in relation to full-scale litigation, as well as in the context of regulatory investigations for financial services entities. As part of his litigation prowess, Loesch is also well-versed in bringing and defending urgent injunctive relief claims. Katrien Baetens represents clients across a myriad commercial and finance disputes, including in relation to international arbitration matters. Louis-Eudes Giroux counsels clients in commercial litigation, arbitrations or investigations and is noted for his expertise in providing ’balanced and pragmatic’ representation in multi-pronged disputes, including in relation to white-collar criminal allegations.
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‘The team is always accessible, also for non-standard topics and excels in providing out-of-the box thinking.’
'The team is efficient and friendly.'
'Guy Loesch is very experienced and provides advice of great value.'
'Guy Loesch has incredible expertise and provides strategic advice with added-value. He is very good at analysing a situation and related risks and he is very clear in his explanations.'
'Louis-Eudes Giroux provides balanced and pragmatic advice.'
'I particularly like Guy Loesch's calm personality and his spot-on assessment of matters.'
'The team is able to handle complex situations and brings valuable expertise. Irrespective of the matter, we are confident that we are supported by a team of experts with great experience and strong technical skills.'
'Louis-Eudes Giroux is really appreciated for his availability, his capacity to understand our professional issues and to propose relevant solutions.'
Key clients
- Caixa Geral de Depositos, S.A.
- Propertize B.V.
- Enel
- CC/Devas (Mauritius) Ltd., Devas Employees Mauritius Private Ltd., and Telcom Devas Mauritius Ltd.
- Sella Bank SpA
Work highlights
- Represented Devas (Mauritius) Ltd., Devas Employees Mauritius Private Ltd., and Telcom Devas Mauritius Ltd. (the “Devas shareholders”) on a billion-dollar UNCITRAL arbitration claim under the Mauritius-India BIT relating to the cancellation of a lease agreement.
- Represented Enel in its challenge of an ex-parte exequatur order to prevent a ruling of an Albanian Court obtained by the Albanian company Albania Beg Ambient becoming enforceable in Luxembourg.
- Represented Caixa Geral de Depósitos in a criminal matter and subsequent civil proceedings issued as a result of the embezzlement of several million euros by an ex-employee.
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Katrien Baetens
Linklaters