Mr Thomas Vanthournout > Liedekerke > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
Liedekerke Offices
BOULEVARD DE L'EMPEREUR 3 KEIZERSLAAN
PO-MBD-2023-154
1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Mr Thomas Vanthournout
Work Department
Banking & Finance
Position
Senior Attorney
Career
Thomas Vanthournout is part of the Corporate and Finance Practice Group.
His practice covers all aspects of banking and finance law, with a particular focus on acquisition finance, real estate finance, and project finance. He further advises on asset-backed / borrowing base lending, sustainable finance, (ECA-backed) export finance, debt restructurings, securitisation transactions, and loan sales. During his career he gained extensive experience representing a wide range of financial institutions, alternative lenders, private equity houses and corporate borrowers on domestic and cross-border financing transactions.
Before joining Liedekerke, Thomas worked in the Brussels, Amsterdam and London offices of an international law firm for more than seven years, and has also been seconded as legal counsel to BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels.
Languages
Dutch, English, French
Education
Thomas holds a law degree from Ghent University (magna cum laude, 2012), and spent a semester at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland as part of an Erasmus exchange program. He also obtained a master of laws (LL.M.) in International Financial Law from King’s College London (2013).
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Banking, finance and capital markets
(Rising stars)Liedekerke advises on leveraged financings, assists with refinancing matters, and acts on bond issues and private placements for a client base composed primarily of Belgian banks and corporate clients. Real estate finance is a further area of focus for the team, which increasingly advises both borrowers and lenders on green bond issuances and sustainability-linked facilities. Corporate finance expert Damien Conem leads the practice together with Freya Mareels, a syndicated lending expert who advises on a wide array of debt finance transactions, and Wim Dedecker, who takes the lead on both debt and equity capital markets matters. Thomas Vanthournout is also highly recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars Belgium > Banking, finance and capital markets
- Banking, finance and capital markets Belgium
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition: Belgian law
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU regulatory: Financial services
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Media and entertainment
- Industry focus: Transport
- Tax
- Private equity
- Insurance
- Industry focus: IT and telecoms