Our Experience
The attorneys in our department have provided counsel in the following matters:
Corporate Law
- Creation of numerous corporations (SAs), limited liability partnerships (SPRLs), limited liability cooperative companies (SCRLs) and holding companies in Belgium and abroad
- Drawing up shareholders' agreements, escrow agreements and option agreements
- Transformation, dissolution or liquidation of companies
- Participation in several important law suits between shareholders concerning control of the company or ownership of company securities, for both private and public companies, in Belgium and abroad
- Assistance for creditors or the trusteeship in several major Belgian and foreign bankruptcies, and notably for a major Belgian glass manufacturer and an international banking group
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Successive acquisition by a foreign bank of two private Belgian banks, one held by individuals and the other by an international banking group (legal audit and contract negotiation)
- Acquisition of control of a major Belgian distribution group and resale to a new foreign investor
- Acquisition of a major publishing company
- Legal audit of two Belgian credit establishments within the scope of a call for takeover bids
- Assistance for an American group listed on the NASDAQ (dental products) for the successive acquisition of two Belgian production companies with an ‘earn out' formula over several years
- Assistance for family shareholders in the transfer of their Belgian and foreign corporate group (construction materials and items) to an Irish conglomerate
- Assistance for a Japanese group (chemical products) in acquiring a Belgian production unit from an American group
- Assistance for a Japanese group in acquiring and subsequently reselling a Flemish textile company
- Assistance for an Israeli group with an acquisition project in the oil sector
Corporate Financing
- Assistance for a Chinese conglomerate (DIY equipment) in establishing an intermediate Belgian holding company, followed by several restructurings and capitalizations
- Assistance for a Scottish bank in the senior financing of several real estate investments in Belgium, with the establishment of securities, followed by refinancing
- Increase in capital of a publicly traded company (phar¬ma¬ceutical products) by private placement, with exclusion of the preferential right of shareholders
- Increase in capital of a publicly traded company (outdoor advertising) by contributions in kind
Financial Markets
- Assistance with the IPO of a SICAFI (fixed capital real estate investment trust)
- IPO of an audiovisual company on a Belgian regulated market
- Assistance with the public takeover bid for a Belgian holding company by a foreign group
- Advice on the new legislation on public takeover bids