Luxembourg
Boutique Law Firm

Retter is a private client law practice exclusively dedicated and focused on private clients and international families with multi-jurisdictional needs and cross-border issues. The firm assists clients in their business and investment activities as well as in their wealth structuring and governance processes, with highly specialised services to address complex needs.

Approach

The approach of the firm is to assist private clients and international families in all the issues linked to their assets, their wealth structuring, their family governance and the transmission of the assets to the next generation.

In performing their services the firm relies on a strong in-house expertise in Luxembourg law and on a solid international and domestic network of professionals.

Expertise

Our practice areas reach from corporate law, tax law and civil law to domestic and international estate planning. Our attorneys are well skilled in trust business matters, private equity investments, wealthplanning solutions, family governance, corporate structure governance and guardianshipmandates for UHNW individuals.

Her early involvement in private wealth made her a forerunner in the industry. Since then, she has had a lot of experience as a law practitioner, lecturer, and contributor to publications on the subject. As an independent director in the Luxembourg banking industry, Simone Retter has completed her legal expertise in private wealth issues with a broader financial understanding of private wealth and transmission to future generations.


The firm can today look back on 38 years of in-house expertise in Luxembourg law and 20 years of experience in governance in the Luxembourg private wealth financial sector.

Expertise

Wealth Structuring
Estate Planning

Governance
Corporate Law
Tax Law
Estate Law
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Team

Charlotte von der Osten

  • Young graduate with a Master II degree In European Banking and Finance Law from the University of Luxembourg
  • Member of the Luxembourg Bar since June 2023
  • Strong background in Law and Governance cultivated throughout her lifetime, having grown up in a family of lawyers
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René de Monseignat

  • Attorney with more than 50 years of experience
  • Member of Luxembourg Bar and Former member of the Paris Bar
  • Resident in Monaco
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Paola Pagliasso

  • Paralegal at Retter Sarl

  • Personal Assistant of Simone Retter

  • Office manager of Retter Sarl

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Estate planning

In managing and transmitting their private wealth, clients may have to face legacy issues, control issues or tax issues. Our professionals are able to assist clients in the various issues they may face in Luxembourg or abroad.

Our expertise covers:

  • Tools offered by Civil Law such as wills and donations or
  • Tools offered by Corporate Law such as corporate companies or partnerships or
  • Contractual tools such as insurance policies or fiduciary arrangements.
  • Contractual tools such as insurance policies or fiduciary arrangements.
  • Contractual tools such as insurance policies or fiduciary arrangements.
  • Contractual tools such as insurance policies or fiduciary arrangements.
  • Contractual tools such as insurance policies or fiduciary arrangements.
  • Contractual tools such as insurance policies or fiduciary arrangements.
  • Contractual tools such as insurance policies or fiduciary arrangements.

Simone Retter

  • Founder of “Retter”, a boutique law firm exclusively dedicated to private clients
  • Attorney at Law, member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1986
  • Former Partner of Arendt, Head of the Private Wealth Practice Group
  • Former Member of Board of the Luxembourg Central Bank
  • Several ongoing independent director mandates in the Luxembourg financial sector
  • Former Adjunct Professor at the University of Luxembourg
  • Born in Bettembourg (Luxembourg) in June 1961, is a Luxembourg citizen
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