Member Profiles

IP/IT EXPERT & LITIGATOR  Attorney registered with the Luxembourg Bar 18y+ experience, joined /c in 2016  Fluent in French and English  Former partner (IP, IT & Media) of a mid-size firm  Works with international clients and institutions, local      companies, SME’s and public entities Ranked as a leading individual by The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, WTR 1000 and as an IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property Post-graduate IP Law, Paris II-Assas University, 2003   Post-graduate European Law, Paris I-Sorbonne University Keynote speaker in conferences and seminars  Lecturer at the Luxembourg University in IT law Regular author of articles and publications in IP, IT & Data law Member of the Luxembourg AIPPI, ECTA and the Commission on immaterial rights of the Luxembourg Bar INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (PROTECTION & LITIGATION) IP protection strategy advisor for global businesses and startups Trademarks clearance research, registration and prosecution  Well-regarded IP litigator (trademarks, copyright, unfair competition) License, assignment, coexistence, co-development agreements Advisor in multiple copyright digitalisation projects   Global network of patent & trademark attorneys/agents Author of Intellectual Property Transactions in Luxembourg: Overview and Intellectual Property Rights in Luxembourg: Overview (Thomsons Reuters, Practical Law) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & eCOMMERCE  IT contracts drafting and review (outsourcing, development, license, cloud/SaaS) IT litigation (software infringement, contractual breaches, payment recovery) eCommerce compliance (Terms and conditions, legal notice, privacy/cookies policies, e-signature, website audit) Domain names litigation (incl. UDRP proceedings) Lecturer on IT contracts Author, "Technology Disputes Law Review" (Luxembourg chapter, the Law Reviews) DATA & PRIVACY  GDPR compliance : due diligence, gap analysis, impact analysis Data transfers agreements and joint controllers agreement Privacy and information notices, data retention policies, processors agreements Data breaches : data subjects & DPA notifications, hacker prosecution, forensic investigations Image rights : authorisation forms and litigation NDA Agreements Author, “eDiscovery & Data Privacy” (Luxembourg chapter, Kluwer) Author, "Luxembourg - Data Breach" (OneTrust Data Guidance)  TRADE PRACTICES, DISTRIBUTION, & COMPETITION ​Distribution, agency agreements, licensing/franchise matters Trade practices compliance (pricing display, products regulatory, sales and promotions, etc.) Advertising: Legal clearance of press, OOH, online advertising campaigns & commercial documents Review of sweepstakes and skill-games TCs, gaming & gambling   In-depth knowledge of automotive, pharma & eHealth sectors  Advice & litigation on eReputation & press-related issues (libel, defamation) Represents clients before the Luxembourg Competition Authority HEALTHCARE & PHARMA LAW ​Medicines and medical devices regulatory issues Advertising for medicines and medical devices Assistance on private clinics setting-up Payments to HCPs disclosure requirements Advice on CBD products Author of Pharmaceutical IP and Competition Law in Luxembourg: Overview and Medicinal Product Regulation and Product Liability in Luxembourg: Overview (Thomsons Reuters, Practical 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

Antonio Lobo Vilela is a lawyer qualified to practice in Macau, Portugal, and Brazil. His practice is almost entirely focused on gaming law. He was a senior legal adviser to the Commission of the first public tender to grant casino gaming concessions in Macau (2001-2002), and to the Macau Gaming Commission, a consultative body of, and presided over by, the Macau Chief Executive (2003-2009), dealing with the Hong Kong IPO projects of the Macau gaming operators, the financing projects, and the drafting of strategic papers on Macau gaming. He was also charged with (co)drafting the legal and regulatory framework for casino gaming, which is still in force, and the casino gaming concession and sub-concession contracts. He was a partner and founding member of LVT Lawyers, a boutique law firm focused on gaming law (2010-2015), and a legal adviser to the Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macau government on gaming and gaming-related matters, as well as a member of the legislative affairs working group of the Macau Gaming Commission (2016-2020). He was an extern at the Nevada Gaming Control Board (2021) and is a member of the Gaming Law Committee of the Brazilian Bar Association (Federal District, Brasilia). He currently lectures Gaming Law at the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Macau. Lobo Vilela has published several articles on gaming law, namely the Macau chapter at the Chambers & Partners Global Practice Guides on Gaming, Gambling & Licensing (2018), and is on the Expert Panel of The Law Reviews, a publication where he co-authors the chapter on Macau Gaming & Gambling.He is the author of the four-volume ‘Macau Gaming Law – Annotated with Comments,’ the most comprehensive book in English on the Macau (casino) gaming law (www.macaugaminglaw.com). He is also a regular speaker on events related to gaming. He holds a Law Degree with honors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a Master's Degree/LL.M in Gaming Law & Regulation from the William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV - University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific 2015 (General Business Law), Global 2015 (General Business Law), Asia Pacific 2016 (General Business Law and Gaming and Gambling) and received from Global Awards the Gaming Lawyer of the Year 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021- 22 awards.