Pol Theisen
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Pol Theisen

Counsel

Email

pol.theisen@aoshearman.com

Phone

+352 44 44 5 5321

Offices

Luxembourg

V-CARD
Pol advises on a wide range of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including joint ventures, co-investments, corporate restructurings and refinancings. 

Pol also advises on domestic and cross-border restructurings and insolvency law as well as director liability topics.
 
He gained significant experience as lead role advisor in M&A transactions across all sectors, including in particular private capital, real estate, multinational corporates and financial institutions.
 
He first joined A&O Shearman in 2013 as a trainee. He left the firm in 2022 to become a partner and general counsel in a local real estate investment fund and re-joined in 2023. Pol regularly speaks at conferences/seminars on topics relating to corporate and restructuring matters and has published articles on the subject.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • Partners Group on the sale of VSB Group to a gas and oil company.
  • Partners Group on the acquisition of Empira Group (a real estate platform with a EUR 14 billion gross development value portfolio of European and US residential property).
  • Partners Group on their investment in green flexibility, a developer of large-scale battery storage systems in Germany.
  • Corestate Capital Holding S.A. on its successful restructuring.
  • Certain funds managed by affiliates of a global alternative investment management firm on its acquisition of a stake in CPI Property Group, a Luxembourg-based listed real estate player.
  • The shareholders of ELCO Group (a Luxembourg based consultancy, installation, and technical services provider for all types of building) on its sale to STRABAG.
  • The founders of Forstone Luxembourg (a Luxembourg based fund services provider) on its sale to Juniper Square.
  • Circu Li-ion on their seed equity round.
  • One Equity Partners on their acquisition of VASS (a leading European provider of digital transformation, cloud infrastructure and managed IT solutions).
  • The Luxembourg government, through its start-up incubator Technoport, on a joint venture innovation platform with a joint venture, known as “Tomorrow Street”.
  • A global financial institution on the sale to BGL BNP Paribas of all the outstanding shares in its Luxembourg and insurance divisions.

 

Pro bono

  • Supporting Stëmm vun der Strooss, a Luxembourg-based association working for the social and professional integration of disadvantaged individuals.

Published Work

  • "Pol Theisen and Jacques Hoffmann (2024), Navigating Through Financial Distress: Between Enhanced Duties of Board Members and New Restructuring Tools”, LPEA Insight/Out

Speaking Engagements

  • Speaker, “Wie gelingt die erfolgreiche Verlängerung oder Liquidation eins Fonds? Investment- und gesellschaftsrechtliche Aspekte“, Private Capital Forum Frankfurt, February, 2025 
     
  • Moderator, “Exploring New Horizons: Emerging Asset Classes and Luxembourg's Rising Appeal as a Real Estate Structuring Hub”, Conference organized by LuxReal, January 2025 
     
  • Speaker, “Directors’ duties in distressed situations and enforcement scenarios”, Seminar “Duties and personal liabilities of directors in Luxembourg – How limited is your liability?”, November 2024 
     
  • Speaker, “Financial distress: enhanced duties for board members and new restructuring tools”, Luxembourg Corporate Law Briefing, June 2024 
     
  • Speaker, “ILA Corporate Governance Officer Certification”, Seminar organized by ILA, 2023 and 2024 
     
  • Speaker, “Modernisation of the Luxembourg insolvency law”, Restructuring Forum, November 2023 
     
  • Speaker, “Breakfast Briefing for Company Secretaries”, Seminar organized by ILA, September 2023 
     
  • Speaker, “Real Estate joint ventures: balancing power and protection between asset managers and financiers”, Luxembourg Corporate Briefing, June 2023 
 

Qualifications

Admissions

Admitted as Avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2017 
 
Admitted as Avocat, Luxembourg, 2014 

Academic

LLM, Corporate and Securities Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2013

Master en droit, Droit Privé - Droit des affaires, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgique, 2012

Languages

English, French, German, Luxembourgish
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.