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Biography

Guy Harles is a Founding Partner and Co-Chairman of Arendt & Medernach. He specialises in corporate projects, advising multinational and domestic companies, as well as HNWIs on the structuring of international transactions, private equity investments, corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and private wealth management. As an entrepreneurial lawyer, Guy plays a major role in Arendt & Medernach’s international development. He has acquired a very good knowledge of the international market and more specifically of Asia, where he regularly advises clients. Guy’s international business experience and long-standing position as trusted advisor are underscored by a number of Board-level appointments. Guy also regularly serves as an arbitrator, designated by leading international arbitration centres. He is a former President of EuroArbitrage, Centre Européen de Règlement des Différends Financiers and a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration and ADR. Guy is involved in the lawyers’ community in Luxembourg and abroad. He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1980 and served as Chair (Bâtonnier) of the Luxembourg Bar Council from 2011 to 2012. He has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1993 and was admitted as a foreign lawyer to the Hong Kong Bar in 2009. He was the president of the Luxembourg Young Bar Association and of AIJA (International Young Lawyers' Association). Guy currently serves as an officer on the Corporate and M&A law committee of the IBA and is a director of Lex Mundi.