Frank Mausen
Partner
Luxembourg
Frank Mausen
Partner
Luxembourg
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Frank is one of the leading Capital Markets and Banking & Finance Partners at Allen & Overy in Luxembourg. He specialises in securities laws, capital markets regulation (including stock exchange listings and structured finance) as well as banking laws.
Clients include banks as well as corporate, institutional, supranational and sovereign issuers for whom he advises on debt and equity transactions and structured finance transactions including securitisation, structured products, covered bonds, IPOs, placements and buy-backs of securities, exchange offers, listing applications and ongoing obligations deriving from such listings. He has more than 20 years of experience in these areas. Frank is also the Market Intelligence and Know-How Partner at Allen & Overy in Luxembourg.
Frank regularly holds conferences on securitisation and other capital markets topics in Luxembourg and abroad. He is a member of the securitisation working group of ALFI (the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry) and the securitisation working group and the financial markets committee of the ABBL (the Luxembourg Bankers’ association). Frank is also a member of the Islamic Finance working group of Luxembourg for Finance (Luxembourg’s agency for the development of the Luxembourg financial centre) and has joined the Haut Comité de la Place Financière (a committee set-up by the Luxembourg Ministry of Finance aiming to modernise Luxembourg’s financial sector legislation). Frank is also the secretary of the Luxembourg Capital Markets Association (LuxCMA).
Frank served from 2018 to 2020 as Managing Partner of Allen & Overy Luxembourg.
“Frank Mausen is ‘always up to speed and assists us very well’, applauds one client. He has a strong practice advising clients on DCM mandates, including establishing EMTN programmes, bond issuances and setting up securitisation vehicles.” Chambers and Partners
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Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2004
Admitted as avocat, Luxembourg, 2002
Academic
LLM, University of Kent, Canterbury, 2001
Maîtrise, Business Law, University of Strasbourg, 2000
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Experience highlights
Advising multiple major international banks on the establishment of securitisation vehicles under the Luxembourg Securitisation Act 2004, and the setting up of fiduciary note programmes.
Advising Triton on the successful initial public offering of its portfolio company Stabilus, a global automotive and industrial supplier. The shares of Stabilus, a Luxembourg public limited liability company, were publicly offered in Germany and are admitted to trading on the regulated market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Advising the Luxembourg Government on the issue of the very first Sukuk certificates denominated in Euro. This was one of the very first Sukuk issuances by a western country.
Floreat and Doric on the acquisition of three Airbus A330 aircraft on leases to various airlines. The acquisition was financed by the issuance of 10-year notes, the majority of which were structured as Sharia compliant notes.
Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2004
Admitted as avocat, Luxembourg, 2002
Academic
LLM, University of Kent, Canterbury, 2001
Maîtrise, Business Law, University of Strasbourg, 2000
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Published work
- Co-author (2023) ""Blockchain 2023 Practice Guide: Luxembourg Chapter"", Chambers and Partners, June 2023
- Co-author (2020) «Projet de loi 7637: une nouvelle ère DLT pour les titres dématérialisés », AGEFI Luxembourg, September 2020
- Co-author (2019) "Taking Security over Luxembourg’s special limited partnership vehicle" in Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law [Vol. 34 – No. 3 March 2019], [p.175-179], [LexisNexis, UK]
- Co-author (2023) "The Initial Public Offerings Law Review" (Luxembourg Chapter), Law Business Research.
- Co-author (2022) "The International Capital Markets Review" (Luxembourg Chapter), Law Business Research.
- Co-author (2022) "The Islamic Finance Review" (Luxembourg Chapter), Law Business Research.
- Co-author (2022) "The Securitistion Litigation Law Review" (Luxembourg Chapter), Law Business Research.
- Co-author (2022) "The Securitistion Law Review" (Luxembourg Chapter), Law Business Research.
- Co-author (2018) "The Private Equity Review" (Luxembourg Chapter), Law Business Research.
Recognition
Frank Mausen is ‘always up to speed and assists us very well,’ applauds one client. He has a strong practice advising clients on DCM mandates, including establishing EMTN programmes, bond issuances and setting up securitisation vehicles.
Chambers Global, 2022
Frank Mausen frequently assists financial sector clients with the establishment of securitisation platforms and one client enthuses that he is ‘one of the best securitisation lawyers in Luxembourg’. Mausen also has experience in note offerings. A client reports: ‘I feel he is looking at the big picture rather than his little piece; he is forward-looking and pragmatic’.
Chambers and Partners 2021
