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Corporate, M&A and private equity

 

Services.

  • General corporate law

  • Corporate governance

  • Corporate financing

  • Capital markets

  • Family shareholding

  • Mergers & acquisitions

  • Corporate restructuring

  • Non-profit organizations

  • Private equity

 

Janson represents buyers, sellers and advisers in domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions. Our deal portfolio includes public and private transactions across various industries. We cover all stages of the M&A process, from deal structuring, due diligence and contractual negotiations to post-closing integration.  

As concerns Private Equity, our firm covers all stages of the funding cycle, including fund establishment, financing, deal structuring, due diligence, LBOs and MBOs. 

We also specialize in the set-up and liquidation of corporations as well as legal matters relating to non-corporate entities, such as NPOs, international associations and public and private funds.

Our lawyers regularly appear before the courts and arbitral institutions (as counsels or arbitrators) in cases regarding corporate litigation such as shareholder disputes, director’s liability and M&A dispute resolution.

 Track record.

 

  • Assisting a cloud computing multinational in its acquisition of a competitor in multiple jurisdictions

  • Assisting one of the most important IT groups in Belgium to acquire a Belgian competitor

  • Representing buyers, sellers and target corporations in numerous take-over disputes

  • Negotiating and drafting numerous shareholder agreements across various industries mitigating the risk of disputes between shareholders

  • Representing shareholders in disputes regarding the control of corporations or their ownership for both private and public corporations, in Belgium and abroad

  • Assisting in the successive acquisition by a foreign bank of two private Belgian banks, one held by individuals and the other by an international banking group 

  • Assisting a Belgian investor in the acquisition of a major Belgian distribution group and the resale thereof to a new foreign investor

  • Assisting an American dental products group listed on NASDAQ with the successive acquisition of two Belgian manufacturing corporations with an ‘earn out' formula over several years

  • Assisting a family of shareholders in the transfer of their Belgian and foreign corporate group (construction materials) to an Irish conglomerate 

  • Assisting a Japanese chemicals group in acquiring a Belgian manufacturing unit from a US group