BELGIUM Law and Practice Contributed by: Wim Aerts, Dorothée Vermeiren and Stijn Van Walleghem, Clifford Chance
Clifford Chance has decades of expertise in fund formation, debt strategies and regulatory frameworks, and is at the forefront of helping clients navigate the evolving private credit land - scape globally. It draws on extensive experience from 1,000+ lawyers and can pivot from one product to another as required by market shifts or financing needs. Clifford Chance delivers ho - listic integrated advice across the full private credit lifecycle, enabling clients to outperform the market. Beyond traditional lending, it helps clients to set up and structure leverage within
funds, invest across asset classes and navi - gate regulatory landscapes. Its global Private Credit Group combines world-class knowledge with cross-sector expertise and specialises in structuring flexible debt, equity and hybrid so - lutions, including preferred shares. It negotiates the complex and unique terms and structuring seen in private credit deals and is laser focused on maximising credit support throughout the structure, and minimising asset stripping, value leakage and priming risks.
Authors
Wim Aerts is a senior counsel in the global financial markets practice at Clifford Chance in Brussels. He has extensive experience in all types of debt financing, including syndicated
Dorothée Vermeiren is a partner and head of Clifford Chance’s litigation and dispute resolution practice in Brussels. Dorothée
has a strong track record in banking litigation as well as commercial and competition litigation. She has extensive experience in restructurings and insolvencies and advises clients on compliance with anti-corruption and sanctions legislation. She also specialises in commercial arbitration (including acting as an arbitrator herself).
and private acquisition financing transactions, on which he has acted for both lenders and borrowers. Stijn Van Walleghem is a senior associate in the tax practice of Clifford Chance in Brussels. He advises clients on the tax aspects of finance transactions on a daily basis and has represented clients in major tax disputes with the Belgian tax authorities and between financing parties, including disputes on interest deductibility and withholding taxation.
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