Bénédicte Kurth

Bénédicte Kurth

Head of Knowledge | Counsel

Email

benedicte.kurth@aoshearman.com

Phone

+352 44 44 55 718

Offices

Luxembourg

V-CARD
Bénédicte 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, securitization 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).

Expertise

Industries

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

Leadership Positions And Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Luxembourg Banking Lawyers Association (ALJB)

Qualifications

Admissions

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

Languages

English, French, German
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.