People
Thomas Berger
Biography
Thomas is Head of Luxembourg Disputes.
He specialises in domestic and cross-border litigation and pre-litigation matters within the realm of civil, commercial and corporate law. He has a particular focus in financial law, including in investment funds related litigation as well as professional liability in the financial sector, anti-money laundering (AML), and “white-collar” criminal law aspects. He also assists clients facing dawn raids and has extensive expertise in internal and external investigations for clients of the financial sector (banks, investment funds, insurance companies and other professionals of the financial sector). Thomas also regularly advises on regulatory issues related to AML, PSD, MiFID and banking secrecy.
Thomas is a member of the AML legal expert group with the Luxembourg Private Equity Association (LPEA) as well as a member of the Legal Forum, the Payment Forum, the MiFID Forum and the PSD II working group of the Luxembourg Bankers' Association (ABBL). He joined the firm in 2013.
Practice areas
- Disputes
- White-collar defense and global investigations
- Sanctions and international trade
- Administrative and public law
- Corporate and commercial litigation
Sectors
- Banks
- Private capital
Selected experience
- Professional of the financial sectors (credit institutions, e-money institutions, insurance companies, investment funds) facing claims from their clients for breach of their professional obligations on the provision of investment services (alleged mismanagement of client’s assets, mis-advice on investment in financial instruments, incorrect execution of a client order) or of payment services (alleged incorrect or fraudulent execution of bank transfers).
- Investors in investment funds in their dispute against the managers of investment funds.
- Professionals of the financial sector in connection with major internal or external fraud cases.
- Professionals of the financial sector facing dawn raids or alleged white-collar crime and/or breach of their AML-FT obligations.
Education
- Master 2, International Business, University of Rennes I, France, 2006
- Diploma, International Trade Law, Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 2004
Admissions
- Admitted as avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2009
- Admitted as avocat, Luxembourg, 2007
Languages
- English
- French