28 May 2013

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Experience and career history

Steve Jacoby co-heads the Luxembourg Banking, Finance and Capital Markets practice and handles acquisition finance, bank lending, securitisation, capital markets, regulatory, derivatives, general banking law (including litigation), corporate law and insolvency matters.

Steve is an associate lecturer (Chargé de Cours Associé) at the University of Luxembourg and a lecturer at the Luxembourg Bar School in banking, finance and capital markets law. He is a regular contributor to legal journals and a member of various advisory committees on financial law questions within Luxembourg public institutions and professional organisations.

University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne (Maîtrise en droit international des affaires 1994
Cambridge University (LL.M. Cantab. hons.) 1995
Admitted as an avocat to the Luxembourg bar 1996
Admitted as an avocat à la Cour to Luxembourg bar 1998
Joined Clifford Chance 2000
Partner since 2002

Speaks Luxembourgish, English, French and German

Professional bodies

International Bar Association, Member
Association Luxembourgeoise des Juristes de Banque (ALJB), Member
Luxembourg bar association, President of the committee regarding the "Formation Permanente"
Jeune Barreau Luxembourg, Member of the editorial board of the publication "Bulletin d'Information sur la Jurisprudence " (BIJ)
"Annales du Droit Luxembourgeois", Bruylant, Board member
Luxembourg bar association, Member of the committee on economic law

Citations and awards

  • One of the department's leading lights, Steve Jacoby receives glowing reviews from clients. One praised him as a “charismatic, pragmatic lawyer who can think on his feet,” while another valued his “academic but user-friendly advice.”

Chambers Europe 2012, Banking & Finance

  • Steve Jacoby is mostly active on the debt side, and is admired for his pragmatism.

Chambers Europe 2012: Capital Markets

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