Christophe Ernzen
Counsel
Luxembourg
Christophe Ernzen
Counsel
Luxembourg
Contact Details
Christophe specialises in employment law. He advises financial institutions, funds/private equity players, multinationals and other corporate clients on the full range of individual and collective employment law topics including contractual documentation, workplace culture issues, sensitive separation cases and litigation.
He has significant experience in M&A projects (cross-border mergers, asset/share deals) and employee representation matters (European Works Council, social elections, etc.). He also has particular expertise in health and safety at work issues as well as in cross-practice matters including HR digitalisation and employee monitoring projects.
Christophe chairs the Legal Group of the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) for Luxembourg and also sits on the BCC Council. He is also a member of ELSA (the Employment Law Specialists Association of Luxembourg).
Christophe joined Allen & Overy in 2010.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la cour, Luxembourg, 2013
Admitted as avocat, Luxembourg, 2011
Academic
LL.M., Trinity College, Dublin, 2010
Master 2, European Economic and Financial Criminal Law, Université du Luxembourg, 2009
Master 1, International Business Law, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), 2008
Related articles
Publications: 02 May 2023
Adoption today (02 May 2023) of bill no. 7945 aiming to transpose the European directive on persons who report breaches by a company (the "whistleblowers"), via internal or external channels (to the…
Publications: 19 April 2022
Publications: 01 February 2022
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Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la cour, Luxembourg, 2013
Admitted as avocat, Luxembourg, 2011
Academic
LL.M., Trinity College, Dublin, 2010
Master 2, European Economic and Financial Criminal Law, Université du Luxembourg, 2009
Master 1, International Business Law, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), 2008
Recognition
Key lawyer
Legal 500, 2021
Published work
- Christophe Ernzen and Laurie Lougsami (2019) “Internship regulation: Closing the loophole”, article in AGEFI, Luxembourg: Agefi
- Christophe Ernzen and Catherine Di Lorenzo (2017) “Employees’ right to use company IT vs. Employer’s rights to monitor such use”, article in Connexion magazine, Luxembourg: American Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg
