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Frank Mausen

Partner

Luxembourg

Mausen Frank
Frank Mausen

Partner

Luxembourg

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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Experience highlights

Office

Luxembourg

5 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 
Luxembourg

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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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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.

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