Gilles Dall'Agnol
Counsel
Luxembourg

Gilles Dall'Agnol
Counsel
Luxembourg
Contact Details
Gilles specialises in employment law matters. He advises financial institutions, funds/private equity players, insurance companies, multinationals and other corporate clients on the full spectrum of employment law topics including contractual documentation, flexible working time arrangements, discrimination/harassment issues, high profile separation cases and litigation procedures.
He has a strong track record on large-scale projects including staff-sharing arrangements (in particular in the asset management sector), transfers of undertaking (notably in M&A and outsourcing transactions), collective redundancies (social plans) and employee representation arrangements (European Works Council, employee participation in cross-border mergers, etc.). He also has a particular expertise on regulatory remuneration restrictions in the financial sector (CRDIV and CRDV, AIFMD).
Gilles is the co-chair of the AMCHAM Luxembourg HR Committee, a member of the HR Group of the Luxembourg Private Equity Association and a member of ELSA (the Employment Law Specialists Association of Luxembourg). He joined Allen & Overy in 2008.
Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2011
Admitted as avocat, Luxembourg, 2009
Academic
LLM, Commercial and Finance Law, King's College London, 2008
Master 2, Business & Economic Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2007
Master 1, Business Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2006
Experience highlights
Advising UBS (Luxembourg) on the negotiation and implementation of a social plan.
Advising Six Payment Services on the negotiation of a collective bargaining agreement.
Advising major investment managers on complex employee-sharing structures.
Acting as lead advisor in employee transfer of US insurer in more than 10 European countries in the framework of a headquarter move from the UK to Luxembourg.

Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2011
Admitted as avocat, Luxembourg, 2009
Academic
LLM, Commercial and Finance Law, King's College London, 2008
Master 2, Business & Economic Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2007
Master 1, Business Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2006
Recognition
Displays balanced judgement and is committed to delivering
Chambers Europe, 2021
Reactive, extremely pragmatic and always thinking one or two steps ahead
Chambers Europe, 2018
A rising star in the employment space…
Chambers Europe, 2019
Allen & Overy Luxembourg attracts praise for its ‘excellent knowledge of labour and social law’, and for its ability to handle a range of matters including advising on remuneration policies and strategic advice in relation to transfers of undertakings. […] counsel Gilles Dall’Agnol is ‘very experienced and solution-oriented’.
Legal 500, 2017
News & insights

Publications: 12 MARCH 2021
Webinar: A global view on whistleblowing – what is the current and anticipated landscape?
By the end of 2021, EU member states must have transposed the requirements of the new EU Whistleblower Protection Directive into national legislation.
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Publications: 05 JANUARY 2021
New rules on the posting of employees applicable as of 22 December 2020
Verification or declaration by the Luxembourg user company / extension of the Luxembourg core rules applicable to employees posted to Luxembourg / limitation of the maximum duration of the posting /…
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Publications: 21 DECEMBER 2020
In the fourth in our series of webinars, members of Allen & Overy’s Global Employment team discussed the significant issues and challenges that employers need to prioritise in relation to managing and…
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Publications: 24 NOVEMBER 2020
In the third in our series of webinars, members of Allen & Overy’s Global Employment team discussed the significant issues and challenges that employers need to prioritise in relation to managing and…
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