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Commercial, corporate and M&A

Liedekerke

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Liedekerke‘s corporate and M&A practice is ’simply outstanding’, with expansive experience in shareholder buyouts, start-up funding, distressed M&A, and market entry acquisitions. It often handles cross-border matters, both inbound and outbound, and has particular expertise regarding real estate companies. Practice head Damien Conem leverages restructuring and private equity knowledge in his work for corporate clients, while capital markets is an element of Wim Dedecker‘s practice, which often involves energy sector clients. Christel Van den Eynden is a go-to for corporate governance matters, and Céline Tallier is also recommended.
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  • ‘We regularly work with Wim Dedecker. He is very pragmatic, has great industry and client knowledge, very good technical knowledge (across different areas: finance, capital markets and corporate).'

  • ‘The PE/M&A team is very knowledgeable and extremely pragmatic in its approach - instead of solely going into pure legal arguments, the PE/M&A team has a very hands-on business oriented approach, meaning that any proposals, negotiations and discussions will be kept in mind during negotiations and discussions.'

  • ‘At Liedekerke we usually work with Damien Conem - aside from being a true expert in the PE/M&A field, he is extremely knowledgeable on the matters and has ample experience, he is very pragmatic in his approach and is able to make a solid business and risk assessment (i.e., assessment in what items to fight for in negotiations).'

  • ‘The team at Liederkerke are simply outstanding in managing our high expectations for corporate matters. They clearly are experts at getting the outcome required with a real no nonsense approach.'

  • ‘Fleur Vanswijgenhoven and Christel Van den Eynden have a vast amount of experience in giving concise and highly effective advice in complex cases. They are both a real pleasure to work with and I have no hesitation in recommending them.’

  • ‘The firm has a good grasp of M&A space of interest to our company. They understand our business and our business needs, having spent the time to get to know us better. They also know what terms are market for transactions so we can move deals along more quickly and efficiently.’

  • ‘Liedekerke is a true one-stop-stop shop for transactions/M&A with high quality lawyers that can support sponsors at all stages, from due diligence, transaction documentation or tax to anti-trust and others, enabling a smooth but rigorous transaction process.’

  • ‘There is never a problem with Liedekerke, we can always find a solution. Very friendly yet high performing in a transaction environment.’

Clients clés

  • Perpetum Energy
  • Clario
  • Proximus NV
  • Cordiant Digital Holding UK Limited
  • Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited
  • North Sea Port Flanders NV
  • SFPI & CREDIT MUTUEL EQUITY
  • Transition Capital Partners
  • Colruyt Group
  • TEXAF

Points forts

  • Assisting Perpetum Energy, a Belgian group active in the market of industrial decarbonization, with the entry of private equity player Pioneer Point Partners into its equity.
  • Assisting Clario, a California-based leading healthcare research and technology company, with its acquisition of all issued shares in ArtiQ NV, a spin-off from the Belgian university KU Leuven and a leading innovative software company.
  • Assisted EURONEXT listed company Proximus with the acquisition of the business assets of EDPnet Belgium NV and EDPnet Netherlands BV.

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Responsable de la pratique

Damien Conem

Autres avocats clés

Christel Van den Eynden; Wim Dedecker; Jacques Meunier; Maurits Arnauw; Céline Tallier; Fleur Vanswijgenhoven