09/07/14

New Counsels appointed to Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen

The partners of Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen are pleased to announce two new Counsels. Manou Hoss, Managing Partner, comments: "The promotion of Miriam Schinner is a recognition of the valuable contribution made by a talented Senior Associate with significant experience, excellent legal capabilities and outstanding service to clients. We are very pleased to welcome Joachim Kuske back to the firm. We congratulate them both on their promotion".

Miriam Schinner's practice focuses on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, financing and securities law and corporate restructuring. She advises a number of private equity firms and other financial institutions on corporate law, corporate re-organisations, financing and re-financing. She has been a member of the Saarbrücken Bar since 2006 and joined Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen in September of the same year. Miriam was admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in July 2007 under her home title and became counsel in 2014. Miriam is "Assessorin jur." from the "Landesprüfungsamt für Juristen in Düsseldorf" and holds the "Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen".

Joachim Kuske's principal fields of activity are Investment Funds, Management and Investment Companies. He is a Maître en Droit (Master of Law) from the Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg) and holds a Diplôme d'Etudes Européennes Approfondies ("DEEA") in EC Law from the College of Europe in Bruges. He first worked for a subsidiary of a French bank in Luxembourg in the investment funds department and became a Member of the Luxembourg Bar in 2004 as an associate with Delwaide Avocats prior to joining Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen in 2005. From 2009 until 2014, he acted as a conducting officer and member of the board of directors of VPB Finance S.A., a Luxembourg UCITS management company. In 2014, he returned to Elvinger, Hoss & Prussen as Counsel in the asset management and investment funds practice.

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