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Harald is an audit partner within Deloitte Luxembourg and German Business Leader of Deloitte Luxembourg. He has over 26 years of experience in the financial and non-financial services in Luxembourg as auditor and at a trust company. He is specialized in the audit of regulated and unregulated Private Equity and Real Estate structures reporting under IFRS and/or Lux GAAP on standalone and consolidated basis. Harald has extensive experience in IFRS accounting topics and is co-chairman of the REIF Best Practice Fund Operations working group of the Luxembourgish Fund Association, ALFI. Harald was many years lecturer for IFRS lectures at the Universities of Trier and Saarbrücken. He is specialised in IFRS accounting topics and technical questions on Real Estate and Private Equity. Harald holds a master degree in business administration ("Diplom-Kaufmann") at the University of Trier and is a qualified Luxembourg Réviseur d’Entreprises. He is fluent in German and English.

Maryam joined Deloitte in 2008, and currently serves as Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance & PSF Leader and Réviseur d`entreprises for Statutory Audit and regulatory assignments in the Financial services sector in Luxembourg. She has extensive experience with leading and coordinating audits of large Banking clients of international groups – especially audits of public interest entities, internal control and regulatory compliance. She leads Statutory and international audit assignments (IFRS and local GAAP) of Financial Institutions (Retail, Private and Depository Banks), Payment Institutions, Management Companies and Investment Funds, as well as managing group audits and coordinating audit engagements involving other Deloitte Member Firms. She also heads internal control and risk management assignments and Audit innovation and delivery transformation in the financial services sector. She is fluent in French, English, German, Luxembourgish and Farsi.

Christian joined Deloitte Luxembourg in 2013, and currently serves as Partner in Cross Border-Tax. Christian has extensive experience in international tax. His specific experience includes advising on structuring of international operations, foreign acquisitions & divestitures, treaty related taxation, portfolio structuring for Hedge/PEI Fund clients, setting up MLP structures & other cross-border planning. Christian’s clients are in various sectors incl. oil & gas, renewable energy, drilling & exploration, financial services, insurance & real estate. Christian is a member of AICPA. Since 2013 he is a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and is giving various trainings in the US and Luxembourg. He has been speaking on various conferences in the US and Europe e.g. ALFI Frankfurt and New York. He holds a Master in Taxation from University of Miami an a Bachelor in International Business Administration from University of Brighton. He is a CPA for Texas and Florida. German native speaker and fluent in English.

Frank is a Deloitte Partner in the Strategy, Regulatory & Corporate Finance department with a proven track record of more than 16 years in the Financial Services Industry and Big4 in Luxembourg. His profound market knowledge and expertise in Luxembourg Banking and Investment Management Industry covers: Depositary banking, Wealth Management, Migrations, Restructuring, IT Transformation, Alternative Investments, Regulatory topics, and Project Management. Frank has recently coordinated a large-scale bank transformation project for a major German banking group in Luxembourg. In that respect, he mainly acted as Lead PMO during the evaluation and migration phase to a new core banking system for the Operations stream. Furthermore, he coordinated various internal and external stakeholders while a team of up to fifteen staff on the ground. Frank is a German native speaker and speaks English fluently. He is a German “Bankkaufmann” and holds certification “Operations Certificate Program by ICMA” as well as “Prince2 (Foundationer)”.