Philippe Dupont is a founding partner of Arendt & Medernach law firm and is also a member of the firm’s council. He serves as head of the firm’s Banking and Insurance industry group. He specialises in banking and finance and has considerable experience in bank regulatory matters as well as capital markets, lending, securities and structured finance transactions and litigation in finance matters.

He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 1986.

He is a member of various advisory committees with the Ministry of Finance and with the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the regulatory authority of the financial sector in Luxembourg. He was a member of the Luxembourg delegation and of the drafting group of the Unidroit Convention on substantive rules for intermediated securities and was the Luxembourg expert at the Hague Convention on the law applicable to certain rights in respect of securities held with an intermediary. Philippe Dupont was a member of the Luxembourg delegation and of the drafting group at the diplomatic conference leading to the Luxembourg Protocol to the Convention on international interests in mobile equipment on matters specific to railway rolling stock. He is also a member of the EU Clearing and Settlement - Legal Certainty Group and of the Insolvency Law Expert Group set up by the European Commission. He is a visiting lecturer in securities law at the University of Luxembourg and the author of various publications.

He is a Conciliator and Arbitrator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Philippe Dupont holds a Master's degree in law from the Université de Paris (France) and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (U.K.).