Tom Loesch is a Luxembourg national and practising lawyer registered with the Luxembourg Bar since 1982. After having graduated from the Aix-Marseille and Pantheon-Sorbonne law faculties and obtained an LL.M (post-graduate law degree) from the London School of Economics he joined Luxembourg law firm Loesch & Wolter where he became a partner in 1988. He remained a partner in that firm throughout two mergers the firm went through, first with De Bandt, van Hecke & Lagae, then with Linklaters where he headed the Corporate and M&A department for over a decade. After his retirement from Linklaters in 2012, he set up his own boutique law firm to pursue his activities as counselling lawyer primarily in corporate, M&A and PE matters besides assuming various independent directorships of Luxembourg registered regulated and non-regulated corporates.