Member Profiles

Andrew brings a wealth of experience to the table. As the managing director of Griffin Trust, he has led the company by example for the past 19 years and has a proven track record of developing solutions and setting up structures for global families in the area of tax and estate planning, working in close collaboration with clients' trusted advisors. After reading modern languages and law at Queens’ College, Cambridge University, he qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1985. He also has a post-graduate Masters degree in Comparative Law from the City of London Polytechnic and a further post-graduate degree in Treuhandwesen (fiduciary profession) from the University of Liechtenstein. Having worked as a solicitor in London and in the Turks & Caicos Islands, he moved to Liechtenstein in 1992 where he was head of the legal department and later managing director of the specialist trust companies of the Ritter & Partner Group (now known as Kaiser Partner). In 1999 he took over as owner and managing director of Griffin Trust. Andrew is a member of the Law Society (for solicitors admitted to practise in England and Wales), the Offshore Institute, the International Tax Planning Association and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, for which he acted as Treasurer of the Swiss and Liechtenstein branch for many years. He is an honorary member of the Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Centre for International Legal Studies and he is also admitted to practise as an attorney-at-law in the Turks and Caicos Islands (but does not currently hold a practising certificate). He has contributed to publications in various media and has spoken on the subject of trusts and fiduciary services at numerous seminars and as a lecturer at the University of Liechtenstein.

Awarded a law degree from the University of Liège (B) in June 1998. Attended supplementary courses in Luxembourg law prior to being admitted to the Diekirch Bar in April 1999. He initially joined the legal team at URBANY before setting up on his own in March 2002. Alongside his professional activities, he is dedicated to the promotion and defence of human rights within Amnesty International Luxembourg and the Lëtzebuerger Flüchtlingsrot ("Luxembourg Refugee Council"). He was an elected member of the council of solicitors of the Luxembourg Bar for the 2013-2014 judicial year. He has also acted in an advisory capacity for various associations, hosted the programme “Recht zu Lëtzebuerg” ("Law in Luxembourg") on public radio (100.7 FM) and is a speaker for the national fire fighter school. Maître WIES will correspond with you in Luxembourgish, German, French and English. Areas of interest: administrative law, immigration law, criminal law, civil law, commercial law, labour law.

Luca is managing partner of our Luxembourg office, with overall responsibility for the office's validations procedure. He has substantial experience in the national laws of all EPC contracting states as well as the extension states. Luca joined the Luxembourg office of Marks & Clerk in 1994. He is a Luxembourg Conseil en Propriété Industrielle and is registered as a Trade Mark Attorney with OHIM, WIPO and the Benelux Office. Luca graduated from The European Higher Institute of Chemistry in Strasbourg (EHICS) in 1994 with an honours degree (Chemical engineer), after reading chemistry and chemical process, in a trilingual environment with emphasis on material sciences particularly solid-state chemistry and polymers. Luca is fluent in English, French, German, Italian and Luxembourgish.

Raphaël Collin is a founder of Collin Maréchal, a Luxembourg business law firm. Raphaël was a founder of the Baker & McKenzie Luxembourg office in 2010. Before, Raphaël worked for several years in the Luxembourg office of Allen & Overy and was a partner of a top-ten Luxembourg law firm. Raphaël has been practicing since 1997 in Luxembourg.

Areas of practice Bob Scharfe is a Partner and heads the Banking, Finance and Capital Markets practice of Luther’s Luxembourg office. He advises banks, multi-national corporations, and private equity firms on a wide range of banking and financing matters, capital markets, structured finance, securitisation and insolvency law aspects, and structuring private equity investments through Luxembourg. He also has solid experience in general corporate law. Practices Banking,  Finance & Capital Markets Capital Markets,  Banking & Finance Financial Services Investment Funds & Alternative Investments Vita Bob Scharfe obtained an LL.M. in International Business Law from the University of Kingston Upon-Hull, a Master's degree in Private Law from the University Robert Schuman in Strasbourg, and a Certificate in General Management from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He was admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 2008. Prior to joining Luther in 2018, he worked in the banking, finance and capital markets department of an international law firm in Luxembourg. Honors and distinctions Legal 500 EMEA (2023): Ranked Leading Individual for Banking, Finance, Capital Markets Legal 500 EMEA (2022): Recognized for Banking, Finance and Capital Markets. "Bob Scharfe has an incredibly vast knowledge of all banking, finance, regulatory and corporate matters. He is also a very good listener which allows him to always have a holistic, full-picture view on issues and to always provide a correspondingly precise advice. But above all he’s an incredibly friendly and humble guy." IFLR1000 (2021/2022): Ranked in Banking as Highly regarded. Clients say: "Bob is proactive and hands on in his approach, but also delegates responsibilities well. He quickly assesses the individual attributes and challenges of different transactions and implements effective courses of action at inception, thereby reducing the risk of subsequent issues." IFLR1000 (2021): Ranked in Banking as Highly regarded. Clients say: "Bob is extremely knowledgeable on the trickiest issues, and always deals with them in a responsive and thorough way.""Our business includes and puts together very different stakeholders, such as banks, trust service providers, insurance companies or any company having a website or operating in the internet. It is quite complex meeting very different legal and regulatory requirements. Bob is incredibly fast in understanding the business, the relationship between the stakeholders, their needs and requirements. […] He has a very vast (legal) knowledge what makes it easy to discuss very different subjects with him without losing the view for the big picture, i.e. the connection between the different stakeholders and their legal/regulatory requirements." Legal 500 EMEA (2021): Recognized for Banking, Finance and Capital Markets. ‘Bob Scharfe has vast knowledge and experience and therefore the ability to look at matters from different angles/perspectives and to think outside of the box. He is also very well-connected in Luxembourg as well as to the other international offices of Luther.’ ‘Bob Scharfe is very calm under pressure.’ IFLR1000 (2020): Ranked in Banking as Highly regarded. Clients say: "[Bob] and his team have a broad set of experience and are sufficiently qualified to handle our most complex asset backed financing transactions." Described as "very proactive, solution focused, pragmatic and has very high knowledge." Legal 500 EMEA (2019): Recognised for Banking, finance and capital markets. IFLR1000 (2018): Mentioned for Financial and Corporate