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Corporate and finance

Our Corporate and Finance Team works with a wide range of companies on all aspects of Belgian corporate and financial law. Our lawyers have extensive experience and are acknowledged specialists in a wide range of business sectors.

The matters on which we advise our clients range from small day-to-day matters to large transactions which require advice across different legal disciplines and legal jurisdictions.

Mergers and acquisitions

We are experienced in all aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A transactions:

• due diligence
• share purchase agreements
• shareholders’ agreements
• financing structure and security package (both asset and equity-based)
• restructurings
• (L)MBOs
• joint ventures
  
  

We act for a wide range of clients in all industry sectors ranging from multinationals and entrepreneurs to Government organisations. We regularly advise private equity funds on transactions in the Belgian marketplace. We have also developed a strong expertise for real estate transactions.

Corporate law

We provide complex advice to our clients in all fields of Belgian corporate law. Notably, we have experience in securities related matters, listed companies, corporate governance and (international) non-profit-making associations.

We also routinely handle all corporate law issues arising during a legal entities’ lifetime, from establishment, mergers, demergers and capital increase to winding-up, liquidation, restructuring and refinancing. We also provide corporate housekeeping services.

Financial law and capital markets

We assist our clients in financial law, in relation to both capital markets and regulation (notably the approval procedure of both EU and non-EU investments firms with the Banking Finance and Insurance Commission as well as UCITS and MiFID regulations).