Mr Luc Wynant > Van Olmen & Wynant > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

Van Olmen & Wynant
AVENUE LOUISE 221
1050 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Work Department

Corporate

Position

Founding partner, head of Corporate department

Career

Mr. Wynant has extensive experience in all aspects of corporate law, in particular, regarding mergers & acquisitions and private equity in both transactional and financial work. He focuses especially on international and domestic share and assets acquisitions, venture capital and debt capital markets, (leverage) management buy outs, divestitures, funds formations, mergers and company reorganisations.

Mr. Wynant regularly publishes on corporate and financial law. He is the author of the Belgian Chapter in the Private Equity Handbook and the Venture Capital Handbook (Practical Law Company). He also lectures on private equity and corporate law issues at his Alma Mater and at various national and international congresses and seminars.

Languages

Dutch, French, English

Education

Mr. Wynant graduated from the University of Leuven in 1989 (KU Leuven) and obtained an MBA degree from the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Business School (1990). He was an assistant teacher at the law department of his Alma Mater for several years.

Lawyer Rankings

Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A

In addition to advising on VC-backed financing rounds as well as on buy-and sell-side private equity transactions, Van Olmen & Wynant‘s core areas of expertise include employee stock option plans and strategic transactions involving family-owned businesses. The team is co-led by Koen Hoornaert, who is active across a spectrum of corporate transactional and governance matters, and Luc Wynant, who is particularly focused on handling share acquisitions, capital markets and private equity-related matters.