Alain Grosjean

Bonn & Schmitt is a leading independent Luxembourg law firm with an extensive international practice. 

The firm’s attorneys are experienced practitioners in the Luxembourg legal environment and represent a broad spectrum of expertise that allows them to deliver unrivalled legal solutions in one of Europe’s leading financial centres. 

Bonn & Schmitt is a trusted legal partner of leading international financial institutions, industrial corporations, national governments, as well as companies listed on the Forbes Global 2000 list. 

Having fostered strong links with leading international law firms, the firm’s global client base stretches through Europe, to Russia, the US, South America, South Africa and Asia. The firm aims to nurture strong client relationships and to address the particular business needs of each client in the most efficient manner.

Bonn & Schmitt’s lawyers are registered with the Luxembourg Bar and many are members of several legal associations, including the International Bar Association, the Union Internationale des Avocats and the International Fiscal Association.For more information, please consult the International Commerce Desk from Chambers of Commerce and Industry video presentation.

Practice areas

• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• Labour Law & Social Law
• TMT & IP
• Data Protection

Career

Alain Grosjean is a partner in the dispute resolution practice of Bonn & Schmitt where he specialises in international litigation, focusing on a wide spectrum of civil and commercial disputes, as well as arbitration for over 20 years. He specializes in corporate litigation, shareholders disputes, directors and shareholders liability and in the fields of assets tracing.

In addition, Alain deals with all traditional aspects of labour law (such as individual dismissal, temporary work, cross-border employment, international secondment, etc.) and all types of disputes that may arise in connection thereto. His expertise covers sensitive cases of collective redundancies.

He also assists clients involved in high-profile international criminal and civil litigations in cases amounting to hundreds of millions of euros. He coordinates the actions of the different international law firms involved in these cross-border cases.

Alain is accredited by the Luxembourg Mediation Center and is used to attempting pre-litigation negotiations and regularly succeeds in putting an end to litigation through mediation techniques. Alain is also specialised in intellectual property and new technologies, information and communication, data protection and e-commerce.

Alain is Secretary-General and President of the Organization Committee of the UIA (Union Internationale des Avocats) 63rd Congress which will take place in Luxembourg. He regularly organises seminars (e.g. at the European Court of Justice).

Alain has published numbers of articles with regard to data protection. He is the current President of the Intangible Rights Commission of the Luxembourg Bar Association, a body which advises the Luxembourg bar on related sensible issues, and among others the issue of Data Protection Rules in the day to day legal profession. He has also assisted the Luxembourg Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données) in formal proceedings.

Alain is regularly mandated to provides comments on Luxembourg bill of laws relating to a wide range of legal matters. His comments are regularly published on the Luxembourg Parliament website, as part of the parliamentary activities.

Education

• 2000 DESS Contentieux Communautaire (University of Nancy II, France; University of Strasbourg, France and University of Luxembourg)
• 1994 Maîtrise en Droit Privé (University of Bordeaux), France

Languages

French, English

Publications