Bénédicte Kurth
Head of Knowledge-Counsel
Luxembourg
Bénédicte Kurth
Head of Knowledge-Counsel
Luxembourg
Contact details
Bénédicte is a Counsel in the ICM-Banking department at Allen & Overy Luxembourg where she specialises in finance law and assists numerous banking and corporate clients on secured and unsecured lending deals, cross-border acquisition and asset finance work, leveraged buy-out financing and real estate financing both in Luxembourg and abroad, investment fund related financing, securitisation deals, margin loans and insolvency law and restructuring deals.
Bénédicte has more than fifteen years of post-qualification experience and has worked in major law firms in Belgium and Luxembourg. She was admitted to the Liège bar since 1998 and to the Luxembourg bar in 2008.
Bénédicte is a member of the ALJB (the Luxembourg Banking Lawyer Association) and is a founding member of LILLA (Ladies In Law Luxembourg Association). She is also a member of the Legal Forum of the Luxembourg Bankers' Association (ABBL).
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2008
Admitted to the Luxembourg bar under her professional home title, 2005
Admitted as avocat, Belgium, 1998
Academic
Licence, Law, Université de Liège, 1998
Erasmus Programme, Leiden University, 1998
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Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2008
Admitted to the Luxembourg bar under her professional home title, 2005
Admitted as avocat, Belgium, 1998
Academic
Licence, Law, Université de Liège, 1998
Erasmus Programme, Leiden University, 1998
Published work
- "Q&A: Luxembourg", Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, 2017 (co-author)
- "Les difficultés d’interprétation du Règlement (CE) 1346/2000 relatif aux procédures d’insolvabilité : champ d’application et compétence internationale", ACE, juin 2009, co-auteur
- "Les difficultés d’interprétation du Règlement (CE) 1346/2000 relatif aux procédures d’insolvabilité : loi applicable et reconnaissance des procédures d’insolvabilité", ACE, octobre 2009, co-auteur
- "The European Company", L'exportateur, Editions C.C.I. de Liège, avril 2002
- "Liberté d'établissement et libre prestation de services des avocats dans l'Union Européenne", Editions Jeune Barreau de Liège, juin 2001
