Capital Markets
Combining the firm’s over 50 years of experience in securities laws advisory with the domestic and international transaction experience of a young and dynamic group of partners, our capital markets practice is one of the up and coming groups on the Belgian legal market.
Our group is dedicated to helping clients raise funds through debt, equity and equity-linked solutions. We assist on both initial and secondary offerings and cover equity, debt and equity linked capital markets transactions (through public offerings or private placement transactions, including ABBs), structured finance and securitization transactions. In addition, we advise on a daily basis on all kinds of securities law matters (including on periodic disclosures, transparency legislation and market abuse regulation).
We can draw on the expertise from our international network of preferred firms, enabling us to provide effective cross-border assistance whenever necessary.
Recent work includes:
- Assisting a leading Belgian financial institution as joint bookrunner on a secondary offering private placement transaction of shares of a Euronext listed company. (2020)
- Advising several international issuers on the Belgian law aspects of a potential migration of their shares to the Euroclear settlement system post-Brexit. (2020)
- Assisting Belgium’s leading steel wire company listed on euronext on its EUR 200M public offering of retail bonds. One of the first Belgian transactions under PR3. (2019)
- Assisting a leading Belgian financial institution as sole coordinator of a private placement transaction of bonds for an engineering group. (2019)
- Advising a financial institution on an issuer substitution process. (2020)
- Assisting a London Stock Exchange listed company on the Belgian aspects of its international £60M rights issue. (2018)
- Assisting a leading Belgian financial institution as co-manager in the EUR 134M public offering of shares of a Euronext listed real estate investment company through a rights issue and accelerated private placement bookbuilding. (2018)
- Advising several issuers and financial institutions in respect of the Belgian aspects of high yield bond offerings.
- The EU Recovery Prospectus
- Capital Markets Headline-July 2019 The Prospectus Regulation (EU) came into effect
- Capital Markets Headline-August 2018 - The New Belgian Prospectus Law
- The New Regime of Non-Profit Associations, in The Belgian Code of Companies and Associations, Larcier, 2020, p. 85-129
- Provisional Law, in The New Belgian Code of Companies and Associations under Scrutiny, Anthemis, 2019, p. 519-553
- Domestic Conversions, R.P.S.-T.R.V., 2019, p. 802-806
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-- Chambers Europe 2021
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-- Legal 500, 2020
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Jacques Meunier assists listed companies and shareholders with public takeover bids, call option agreements and equity raises. Clients value his "excellent communication skills and ability to sense the critical matters."
-- Chambers and Partners, 2020
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-- Chambers and Partners, 2019
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