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France Wilmet

+32 2 675 30 30 f.wilmet@janson.be View profile View profile

Work Department

• Banking and finance

Position

Partner

France Wilmet joined Janson as a partner in October 2017. She has been a member of the Brussels Bar since 1988 and of the Paris Bar since 1993.

France has acquired significant experience in business law and contract law, both with Belgian and foreign clients. She is particularly specialised in financial law (acquisition finance, asset management, commodity finance, derivatives, regulatory finance, regulatory insurance…).

References

• Advisor to a US corporation in the structuring of its Belgian securities to guarantee its financing
• Advisor to a US bank on the structuring of its security on commodities located in Belgium
• Drafting of loan documentation for the financing of a real estate acquisition
• Advisor to a leading US rigid packaging company in one of the largest ever acquisitions of the business unit of a parent company insolvent in Europe under the common European insolvency regulations
• Assistance to a consortium of lenders in the setting up of mortgages and floating charges by Belgian borrowers and guarantors

Career

• 10/2017 – …: Partner – Janson
• 2012 – …: Judge substitute at the Court of Appeal of Mons
• 2003 – 2017: Partner – Simmons & Simmons LLP (Brussels, Paris, London)
• 2001 – 2003: Partner – Peeters Lawyers (Ernst & Young)
• 1999 – 2001: Associate – Peeters Lawyers (Ernst & Young)
• 1993 – 1998: Associate – Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
• 1991 – 1993: Associate – Moquet Borde et Associés (Paris)
• 1988 – 1990: Trainee lawyer – Janson

Languages

French, English

Education

• 1990 – 1991: Master of Laws – New York University School of Law (USA)
• 1988 – 1990: Master’s degree in economic law, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• 1983 – 1988: Law degree, Université Libre de Bruxelles (magna cum laude)