The Essentials-Luxembourg

KYPRIANOU Alexis

Alexis is a certified board director both in Luxembourg and France. He has held numerous board directorships through his 25 year career in companies from all sizes from start-ups in the internet services sector to an energy company with over €1 billion of revenues. His mandates have been held for companies in several countries, including the USA, the UK, and France.

He has lived corporate governance as an executive, an independent Director, a shareholder nominee on the Board, and Chairman of an Audit Committee and Chairman of a Finance Committee, and therefore brings insights from all these views.

Alexis trains Board Directors on the certification and directors’ professional training programmes of several national institutes for board directors, including ILA in Luxembourg, IFA in France and Guberna in Belgium. He also lectures or gives workshops in corporate governance subjects at various business and management schools across Europe.

NADAL Jeffrey

Fundsquare, 100% subsidiary of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange provides a unique international market infrastructure to support and standardise cross-border distribution of investment funds.

Prior to Joining LuxSe Group, Jeffrey was Head of Business Development at European Fund Administration where he led a team to articulate strategic business development road map and coordinate sales activities with EFA's  shareholders (Banque de Luxembourg, Quintet Bank, Banque & Caisse d’Epargne de l’Etat and Oddo & Cie). 

Jeffrey has a proven experience gained with major players through several international postings including in the United States and Luxembourg. He spent 10 years at RBC Investor & Treasury Services Luxembourg, holding senior roles across operations, relationship management & business development. Prior to RBC, Jeffrey was a Senior Consultant at Arthur Andersen Luxembourg specialising in the Financial Services industry (Custodian Bank, Fund Administration, Front/Back-Office relationships) and started his career with State Street Bank in Boston.

Jeffrey Nadal is Independent Certified Director by Insead and Institut Luxembourgeois des Adminsitrateurs (ILA). He holds a post master diploma “Management des Operations de Marche” from Lumiere Lyon II university and two Masters’ degree from Dauphine University in Banking, Financial and Insurance Engineering as well as Business Management.  

REULAND Anne

Anne Reuland is Chief Legal and Regulatory Officer and member of the Executive Committee of LuxTrust S.A.

She joined SES as Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate & Finance in 2011 until 2018, after having spent 9 years as a lawyer in the Banking and Finance team of Arendt & Medernach.

In 2012 she became member of the Board of Quintet Private Bank, chairing the Legal & Compliance Committee. She is also a member of the Board of the Fondation de Luxembourg since 2017.

She holds a Master Degree in Business law from the Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg (France), a LL.M Degree in Banking and Corporate law from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and is an ILA Certified Director.

GRAAS Jacques

Jacques is a partner in the corporate/M&A department of Allen&Overy in Luxembourg. He deals with a wide range of corporate and M&A transactions across all sectors and has particular expertise in financial institutions M&A, private equity/asset management and real estate. Jacques is also regularly involved in public M&A and takeover law related matters.

Prior to joining Allen & Overy in 2013, he worked for five years at two major U.S. law firms in New York and Paris and qualified as a lawyer in both jurisdictions.

Jacques holds a Master II degree from the University of Paris II-Assas in business law and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

LAMESCH Corinne

Corinne Lamesch is the chairperson (since June 2019) and board member of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) (since June 2017). She is a regular speaker at industry events and has been actively participating in conferences and roadshows that ALFI is organising in Luxembourg and across the globe. 

Corinne is Country Head, Luxembourg at Fidelity International and has over 20 years of experience in the Luxembourg fund industry. 

She joined Fidelity International in 2008 and acts as Conducting Officer of Fidelity International’s Luxembourg-based management company since 2015. 

Prior to joining Fidelity International, Corinne worked as a lawyer for Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy from 1998 to 2008, advising on the Luxembourg and international investment fund industry. 

Corinne holds two Masters in Law from Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg and New York University School of Law. She was admitted as a lawyer to the Luxembourg Bar (1999-2008) and to the New York Bar (since 1998).

HENNEBERT Nicolas

Nicolas is a partner within the Luxembourg audit department and has more than 20 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry, counselling and auditing large asset management firms as well as smaller boutiques from the French, UK, US, Asian, Australian, Swiss and local markets. He serves a vast range of entities in the financial sector. He is actively involved in the EMEA Investment practice of Deloitte and participates to various industry working groups in Luxembourg mainly with ALFI, EIIL and ILA. Nicolas is Deloitte Luxembourg Audit Investment Management Leader. He is réviseur d’entreprises agréé and expert-comptable and speaks French, English and Spanish.

BADOT Antoine

Antoine Badot is an international corporate tax specialist, advising clients who are primarily active within the alternative investments funds industry and with a focus on real estate and infrastructure. With close to 18 years' experience, he has sound expertise in the international tax structuring aspects of regulated and unregulated funds, including but not limited to REITs. Antoine is a member of several ALFI (Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry) working groups and is a regular speaker at tax conferences.

PAHLSON-MOLLER Hedda

SEVRAIN Cécile

Cécile is Partner and Head of Impact Measurement and Management at TIIME. She is passionate about social impact and notably how business/finance can support social innovation to solve most pressing issues.

Cécile manages EBAN Impact as Program Officer, promoting awareness and engagement in impact investing within the European Business Angel Network. She sits on the advisory board of Tilia Impact Venture, a Czech impact fund.

She ran the Luxembourg Business Angel Network (LBAN) for almost 5 years. 

She has a background in international tax and is an active business angel, notably in the Rising Tide program, which is part of a global movement to increase women’s participation in angel investing as an asset class.

Cécile is a senior jury member at European pitching events, and does training on pitching, business models, financing, impact metrics and corporate responsibility. She is also a frequent speaker at conferences and events across Europe.

Cécile holds a master in Business and Finance from Lyon University.

SCHWEIGER Michael

Michael Schweiger leads the regulatory team at Loyens & Loeff Luxembourg and is a member of the banking and finance group. He provides clients with strategic banking, regulatory, and corporate governance advice. 

Prior to joining the firm, Michael spent over a decade at Royal Bank of Canada’s European subsidiary in Luxembourg where he was a member of the Executive Committee with direct accountability to the European Central Bank. He led a team with responsibility for all legal matters in Continental Europe and the Channel Islands. 

Michael also served as Senior Subsidiary Governance Officer, EMEA (ex UK) with responsibility for all subsidiary governance matters within RBC across its business platforms in Europe. He served as Company Secretary to multiple group companies and is specialized in corporate governance within financial institutions. Recent speaking engagements include the European Commission’s 17th European Corporate Governance Conference as well as expert engagements throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa covering board liability, the role of the chair, and corporate governance regulation. 

Prior to relocating to Luxembourg in 2008, Michael practised corporate, commercial, and insolvency law in Canada. He is called to the Bar in Canada, England, and Luxembourg.

Michael is actively involved in the Luxembourg Bankers’ Association (ABBL) and the Luxembourg Institute of Directors (ILA), where he has dedicated significant time to enhancing corporate governance within financial institutions. Michael speaks English, French, and German.

O'SULLIVAN Karen

Karen O’Sullivan is head of the Innovation, payments, market infrastructures and governance department at the CSSF. 

She coordinates the activities of this department which is responsible for financial innovation, both the application process and on-going prudential supervision of payment institutions and electronic money institutions, market infrastructures and the oversight of remuneration and governance practices and policies implemented within financial institutions. Being the department in charge of financial innovation means that Karen and her team are the privileged contact and point of entry to the CSSF for the FinTech industry.

She represents the CSSF on an international level through participation in various sub-groups of European institutions dealing with the topics of her department. Additionally, she is speaker at several conferences, covering payment services, remuneration policies and corporate governance matters at both national and international level

Karen is both an Irish and Luxembourgish qualified chartered accountant. Prior to joining the CSSF in September 2012, Karen was an audit director at PwC Luxembourg specializing in the audit of investment funds.