Providing ‘high quality advice on complex transactions’, the Loyens & Loeff banking and finance team brings together expertise in project finance, real estate finance, restructuring, and financial regulation, with notable experience in renewable energy and infrastructure matters. ’Stand out partner’ Marc Vermylen heads up the team, with substantial knowledge of secured financing, while Vanessa Marquette is highlighted for her debt and equity capital markets work. Koen Panis is regularly sought after for project finance, and Sarah Libregts specialises in asset-based lending transactions.
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‘Highly professional and knowledgeable team with comprehensive advice delivered in a timely manner to clients. They have been a crucial piece of our advisors' team in a couple of transactions. I would like to specifically praise their dedication to the client's needs.’
‘The law firm, being a Benelux firm, has a very strong local presence and very good knowledge of local law and regulations. I also appreciated the excellent interplay with the taxation team.'
'Our project was very innovative and the law firm facilitated enormously our work in shaping the final product in a very short period of time. I particularly appreciated the flexibility and innovative approach of the lawyers and the proactive and pragmatic approach.’
‘Pieter Verheyen is an expert in finance transactions. He is a smart, pragmatic and pro-active lawyer, always ready with world-like solutions. Would definitely recommend!'
‘We worked on a complex debt and equity product with L&L acting as our legal counsel. We felt well supported by L&L the whole way through, they were patient and diligent and stayed calm in the face of the opposite legal counsel.'
‘This is a team able to deliver high quality advice on complex transactions. They are time and cost efficient and expert in their market.’
‘Marc Vermylen is a stand out partner with whom I have worked for years. I would have no hesitation recommending him on structured finance, banking and other capital markets transactions. He has an intimate knowledge of laws of security and wider financing issues.’
‘A professional multilingual team with a wide range of legal and tax knowledge having a pragmatic and commercial approach, dealmakers understanding the expectations of their client and without losing sight of the risks and preventing the customer from. Pleasant to deal with.’
Clients clés
- European Investment Bank
- European Union – Euratom - European Commission
- Parkwind
- Deva Capital
- Belysse Group NV
- Tristan Capital Partners
- Clarity Capital Services NV
- GH Group
- Altria Group, Inc.
- Hannover Leasing
Points forts
- Advising the European Investment Bank, among others, on a venture debt financing for The Akkermansia Company, a Belgian microbiome health company.
- Advising the European Commission on the establishment of the EU Issuance Service, a new infrastructure for the settlement of primary market issuances and initial distribution of EU debt securities.
- Assisted a real estate company with the real estate financing of over 50 properties in Belgium by a syndicate of banks.
Avocats
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Responsable de la pratique
Marc Vermylen
Autres avocats clés
Vanessa Marquette; Koen Panis; Sarah Libregts; Mathias Diricx; Pieter Verheyen