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Christel VAN DEN EYNDEN
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Christel Van den Eynden is a Partner in the Corporate and Finance Practice Group.
She advises international and national clients (listed and non-listed companies) on (cross-border) mergers & acquisitions, and private equity investments, and has built up an extensive practice in project financed transactions, PPP and complex industrial projects, mostly in infrastructure, energy and renewables, and logistics.
Christel advises clients in a wide variety of sectors, including the retail sector and food industry, automotive industry, logistics and port-related activities, the energy and green energy sector, (petro)chemicals, biotechnology and life sciences sector, the financial and payment services sector, the IT and high tech sector, hospitality and entertainment sector. She has particular expertise in cross-border acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, and infrastructure projects. She also advises clients on issues of corporate governance, directors’ liability and issues of general corporate law.
In addition to her law degree from the University of Antwerp (UA 1987), Christel has a master of arts in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (Bologna, Italy, and Washington D.C.), for which she obtained a Fulbright Scholarship. Christel sits on the selection committee of the Fulbright US-Belgium exchange commission awarding scholarships to master degree students in law.
Christel joined Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick in 1999.
Recent matters
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Assistance to a private equity fund in the potential purchase of an Euronext-listed Belgian company;
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Several large scale PPP projects (large infrastructure and transportation sector projects);
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Largest direct investment project in Belgium in 2011: complex set of interlinked agreements in a co-location project, involving the building and operation of a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) production plant Belgium;
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Assistance to a Euronext-listed waste management company in the disposal of its Belgian non-hazardous waste business;
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Assistance to a group of companies, active in the marine bunkering business with the acquisition of a similar Belgian business in a mixed share and asset purchase transaction.
Market recognition
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Clients say she is a "very dedicated lawyer who will take her client's hand and lead them all the way to the solution. She also has a natural charm." (Chambers Global 2017)
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Recommended by IFLR1000 (2013) and Who’s Who of International Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers (2012)
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Clients single out Christel Van den Eynden and share their “very good experience of working with her” - Legal 500, 2010
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Clients have praised Christel for “her outstanding level of advice and expertise, for the appropriateness of her advice, and for her excellent business sense and reliability” - General Counsel, Automotive sector
Professional memberships
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Board, Executive and Audit Committee Member of Lex Mundi (www.lexmundi.com)
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Chair Emeritus cross-border transactions practice group, Lex Mundi
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Member of women on board (www.womenonboard.be)
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German and Italian (read)
boulevard de l'Empereur 3 Keizerslaan - 1000 Brussels - Belgium
T: +32 2 551 15 15 - F: +32 2 551 14 14
VAT - BE 0478 065 191
