Jacques Graas
Partner
Luxembourg
Jacques Graas
Partner
Luxembourg
Contact details
Jacques advises on a wide range of cross-border public and private M&A and corporate transactions, including equity capital markets related work, across all sectors, with a specific focus on financial institutions, asset management, private equity and real estate. Over the last years, he has advised on some of the most visible FIG M&A transactions in Luxembourg. Jacques also regularly advises actors from the public sector in Luxembourg. He heads our local FIG/Banking working group and is an active member of our local Real Estate taskforce.
Prior to joining Allen & Overy in 2013, Jacques worked for five years at two major U.S. law firms in New York and Paris where he gained significant experience in capital markets and financing transactions in addition to working on corporate matters. He was a lecturer in corporate law at the University of Paris II-Assas from 2010 to 2013 and has published various articles on the subject.
“Jacques Graas is lauded by his clients for his dedication, with one interviewee stating: ‘I am extremely satisfied with his work. He has a very hands-on approach, he follows up on all our projects and he is extremely reliable.’ Graas is very active on M&A transactional work, acting on both the seller and the buyer side.” (Chambers and Partners)
Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as Avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg bar , 2013
Admitted as Avocat, Paris bar, 2010
Admitted as Attorney at Law, New York bar, 2009
Academic
LLM, Harvard Law School, 2008
Master 2, Droit des Affaires, Université Paris II - Assas, 2007
Magistère de Juriste d’Affaires – DJCE, Université Paris II - Assas, 2007
Related articles
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Experience highlights
Advising a global private equity firm on the acquisition of the German Xella group from PAI Partners and Goldman Sachs (closed April 2017).
Advising Corestate Capital on its initial public offering and subsequent uplisting of its shares to the Prime Standard segment of the Frankfurt regulated stock exchange (closed November 2017).
Advising a global financial institution on the sale to BGL BNP Paribas of all the outstanding shares in its Luxembourg and insurance divisions (closed September 2018).
Advising the Luxembourg government, through its start-up incubator Technoport, on a joint venture innovation platform with Vodafone, known as “Tomorrow Street” (closed February 2017).
Expertise
Practices
Sectors
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as Avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg bar , 2013
Admitted as Avocat, Paris bar, 2010
Admitted as Attorney at Law, New York bar, 2009
Academic
LLM, Harvard Law School, 2008
Master 2, Droit des Affaires, Université Paris II - Assas, 2007
Magistère de Juriste d’Affaires – DJCE, Université Paris II - Assas, 2007
Published work
- "Mandatory Takeover Bid Rule under Luxembourg Law: Applicable Framework and Exceptions", RPDA n. 18, May 2023
- "Le casse-tête des règles relatives à la prise de décisions des associés dans une S.à r.l.", RPDA, n. 1, September 2018
- "Luxembourg Space Resources Act: Paving the legal road to space", Allen & Overy, 2017 (co-author)
- “Les pactes d’actionnaires et la loi du 10 août 1915: Réflexions et perspectives” in Un siècle d'application de la loi du 10 août 1915 concernant les sociétés commerciales, Kluwer, 2015, pp. 69 à 101
- "Les parts bénéficiaires en droit luxembourgeois" in Mélanges en l’honneur du Professeur Michel Germain, LexisNexis, 2015, pp. 363 à 379
- “Share pledge under Luxembourg law”, Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier, n. 3, 2012, p. 75
- “The poison pill: a cross-analysis under French and Luxembourg law”, International Business Law
