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Mr Grégory Minne

+352 40 78 78 355 gregory.minne@arendt.com View profile

Work Department

Banking & Financial Services, Bank Lending & Structured Finance and Commercial & Insolvency 

Position

Grégory Minne is a Partner in the Banking & Financial Services, the Bank Lending & Structured Finance and the Commercial & Insolvency practices of Arendt & Medernach. He specialises in banking and finance, in particular in acquisition, fund, real estate, project, aircraft, rail, ship, and structured finance, securities transactions, payment and securities settlement systems, refinancing, restructuring and insolvency. He also advises clients on complex private international law matters and on the legal enforceability of set-off, netting and collateral arrangements with respect to cross-border transactions and related insolvency risks and regulatory requirements.

Career

Prior to joining Arendt & Medernach, Grégory worked in Switzerland within the legal department of a leading French investment bank.

He is a lecturer at the University of Luxembourg and a visiting lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), at the University of Paris Est Créteil (UPEC, Paris XII) (France) and at the University of Strasbourg (France), and is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. Grégory Minne is the author of numerous articles on issues related to his areas of expertise. He is also a recipient of the prize awarded by the Luxembourg Association of Banking Law Lawyers (ALJB, Association Luxembourgeoise des Juristes de Droit Bancaire) for his study on the conflict of laws rules concerning set-off and netting in the financial sector.

He is a conferee of the Conference of European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL), and a member of INSOL Europe and the European Law Institute (ELI).

Languages

English, French, reading knowledge of Dutch, reading knowledge of Italian.

Memberships

He has been a member of the Luxembourg Bar since 2005.

Education

Grégory holds a Master’s degree in law from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and a Master in business law from the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne (Switzerland). He also holds a degree in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) as well as a degree in economic and social ethics from the same university.

Leisure

In the Legal 500 2017 guide, he is considered by clients as a “key figure” of the Banking & Finance sector, and “well versed in cross-border financings”. He is mentioned as Rising Star in IFLR 1000 2017.