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Baptiste Aubry
Biography
Baptiste is Head of Luxembourg Financial Services Regulatory.
He focuses on regulatory matters applicable to financial institutions and asset managers (including payment services, Fintech & crypto-asset services, investment/broker dealer services, funds distribution, depositary & fund administration services, prudential & licencing requirements, governance issues and AML/KYC topics), structured products, bank lending and derivatives (incl. EMIR and MiFIR).
Baptiste joined the Luxembourg Banking Lawyers' Association (ALJB) and made several contributions in Luxembourg legal literature. He is also a member of various working groups (including the Payments Cluster) at the Luxembourg Bankers' Association (ABBL).
Baptiste is an active member of our FinTech task force, supporting a wide range of clients, from established financial institutions to start-ups developing innovative solutions.
Practice areas
- Financial services advisory and regulatory
- Advisory and regulatory
- Digital assets
- Financial services litigation
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
Sectors
- Banks
- Financial institutions
- Fintech
Selected experience
- A Brazilian bank on the establishment of their Luxembourg third country institution branch and more specifically the licencing and regulatory aspects.
- Quintet Private Bank on the establishment of a credit institution by way of reorganisation involving a cross-border merger of certain European entities.
- A major fintech company and a worldwide operating crypto-exchange on the joint-issuance e-money tokens in accordance with the applicable legal framework under MiCAR.
- A foreign exchange market manager and service provider with on-going strategic regulatory questions, including in respect of the establishment of an e-money institution in Luxembourg.
- A European payment services company on strategic regulatory matters as well as on-going advice on AML/CTF obligations and payment services issues.
- A Belgian company on the acquisition of a leading Dutch payment scheme and a Luxembourg-based payment solution provider.
- Several alternative investment fund managers on their obtainment of MiFID Top-Up licenses in Luxembourg.
- A Canadian multinational financial services company on the sale of its Luxembourg subsidiary (holding all of its European business activities) to a Luxembourg-based asset servicing bank.
- A global e-commerce company in a multi-billion sale of “buy now pay later” loan receivables.
Education
- Master 2, Droit bancaire et financier, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France, 2011
- Master 2, Droit de l’économie et de la régulation en Europe, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Strasbourg, France, 2010
- Master 1, Droit et études européennes, Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France, 2009
Admissions
- Admitted as Avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2017
- Admitted as Avocat, Luxembourg, 2014
Languages
- English
- French