People
Pol Theisen
Biography
Pol is a Luxembourg based M&A partner.
Pol advises on a wide range of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions - including joint ventures, co-investments, preferred equity and hybrid 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.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Private equity
- Real estate
- Restructuring insolvency and capital solutions
- Insurance
Sectors
- Private capital
- Real estate
- Family office
- Banks
- Insurance
Selected experience
- 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”.
Education
- 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
Admissions
- Admitted as Avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg, 2017 Admitted as Avocat, Luxembourg, 2014
Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Luxembourgish