Areas of Expertise
Yann is co-head of Maples and Calder (Luxembourg)’s Finance team at the Maples Group. With over 20 years’ experience practising in Luxembourg, Yann focuses his practice on leveraged finance, secured lending transactions, fund finance, securitisation, asset finance and debt capital markets. He advises private equity houses, alternative investment funds, financial institutions, multinational companies and high net worth individuals.
Yann joined the Maples Group in 2024. He was previously a partner at AKD in Luxembourg and, prior to that was at Dentons in Luxembourg.
Yann is recommended by Legal 500, where he is described as, “responsive and experienced.” He provides “No fuss” efficient legal advice and excels at handling acquisition and asset finance mandates”.
Yann lectures Luxembourg corporate and financial law in the Master 2 “International and European Business Lawyer” (Master 2 Juriste d’Affaires International et Européen) at the Faculty of Law of Nancy (France) since 2006.
Member of the Competitiveness Working Group of the Luxembourg Maritime Cluster
Member of the Aviation Lawyers Committee of the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA)
Bar Admissions
2002 – Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar
Education
University of Lorraine (France): master’s degree in private law, 1998
University of Lorraine (France): Postgraduate diploma (D.E.A.) in public law, 1999
University of Strasbourg (France): Postgraduate diploma (D.E.S.S.) in business law, 2000
University of Reading (United Kingdom): Islamic finance diploma, ICMA Centre, 2011
Languages
English
French