Jacques Graas
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  • Proximus in the set-up of a joint venture with LuxConnect to operate the first sovereign cloud offering in Europe, Clarence, based on Google Cloud technology.
  • Certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. on its acquisition of a stake in CPI Property Group, a Luxembourg-based listed real estate player.
  • Nordea on the sale of part of its Luxembourg-based private banking business,Nordea Bank S.A.,to UBS.
  • The Luxembourg government, through its start-up incubator Technoport, on a joint venture innovation platform with Vodafone, known as “Tomorrow Street” (closed February 2017).
  • 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).
  • A global private equity firm on the acquisition of the German Xella group from PAI Partners and Goldman Sachs (closed April 2017).
  • 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).
  • 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, n ° 6 , 2010

    Recognition

    Ranked Rising Star
    IFLR 1000 2019
    Ranked Up and Coming
    Chambers Global 2019

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