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.

SPINNER Susan

Susan Spinner, CFA, is the CEO of CFA Society Germany, the largest professional association for investment experts in Germany.

To this role, Susan brings almost 25 years of experience in the investment industry, with a focus on international capital markets and portfolio management and analysis. In Germany, Susan has worked in senior roles for various Commerzbank entities in Frankfurt, for the Landesbank in Hamburg and for Dresdner Bank in Berlin. In addition, she was a Director for Global Financial Products for the Bank of Montreal in Chicago, USA.

Before assuming the role of Managing Director for the CFA Society Germany,  Susan was a founding board member of the Society in 2000.  She conducts ethics trainings at various German universities, speaks on this topic to investment practitioners nationally and lectures at Goethe Business School the master of finance class „Ethics in Finance“.

Susan Spinner champions the topics of professional development, transparency and integrity in financial markets.

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.

LEVY Bertrand

Bertrand has more than 13 years of experience in Luxembourg taxation, working for Big 4 and prestigious Law Firm.

As a Senior Manager in the Alternative investment team, he provides private equity, RE and HF houses with tax advisory services.

Bertrand developed an expertise in M&A transactions and especially in tax due diligence projects (+300 projects). He also has a strong background in Luxembourg tax compliance.

ROEMER BEERNAERTS Pauline

As a Manager in the Alternative Investments team, Pauline provides tax advisory services to various types of transaction including acquisition, exit corporate/post acquisition restructuring, profit repatriation strategies and implementation of holding and financing structures for private equity, RE and HF houses.

She has more than 7 years of experience in Big 4.

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.