Janson represents buyers, sellers, investors and advisers in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Our deal portfolio includes public and private transactions across various industries.
We cover all stages of the M&A process from deal initiation, due diligence, contract drafting and negotiations, closing assistance to post-closing integration.
Regarding private equity and venture capital, our firm assists clients throughout all stages of the investment cycle, including fund structuring, company set up, financing, investment rounds, exits, LBOs and MBOs.
We also advise on the set-up, governance and restructuring of Belgian or international non-profit organizations and public or private funds.
Practice contacts
Marc Dalle
m.dalle@janson.be
Peter Parez
p.parez@janson.be
Team
Partners
Services
We perform buy-side or sell-side legal due diligence reviews
We draft and assist our clients in negotiating:
Non-disclosure Agreements, Letters of Intent, Term Sheets, Binding/Non-Binding Offer Letters
Share Purchase Agreements (SPA) / Asset Purchase Agreement (APA) / Subscription Agreements / Joint Venture Agreements (including provisions on Conditions Precedent, Price calculation mechanisms, Closing Accounts, Locked Box mechanisms, Earn-Out, representations and warranties, special indemnities, etc.)
Articles of Association / Shareholder Agreements / Joint Venture Agreements (with provisions on all corporate matters such as governance, preemption rights, Tag Along / Drag Along Rights, Route to Exit, Put and Call mechanisms, Deadlock, etc.)
Merger or demerger proposals, carve-outs
Ancillary agreement such as Vendor Loan, Management Agreements, Services Agreements, Convertible Loan Agreements
Employee Stock Option Plans (typically with provisions on vesting and leaver)
Post-closing we give our clients recurrent support and assistance on any follow-up corporate matter.
Track records
Assisting an independent Belgian distributor with the transfer of its retail outlets to the product manufacturer, i.e. a Swiss chocolatier with premium brands;
Assisting a French car manufacturer with off-spinning its Belgian points-of-sale to an major European multi-brand car distributor;
Assisting an American retail multinational (hook and loop fastener) in its purchase and sale of companies in Belgium (share deals) and corporate finance transactions in other European jurisdictions;
Assisting an independent Belgian music publisher in divesting an international copyrights catalog to a US music publishing house;
Long term assistance of a fledgling renewable energy service provider in its scale-up and successive funding rounds, corporate governance issues and set-up of employee stock-option plans;
Assisting a fledgling entrepreneur in the takeover of the local plant of a US Fortune 500 company in the electronic components and computer sector;
Assisting the family owners in the sale to a foreign buyer of their company providing certification of organic produce;
Assisting a Belgian client in a Belgian Indian cooperation and investments in India (retail industry);
Assisting a Belgian PE backed steel group in its acquisition of a company in the Netherlands;
Assisting a Lebanese industrial group in its corporate finance transactions in a number of European jurisdictions (including Belgium).
