Mr Thomas Vanthournout > Liedekerke > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

Mr Thomas Vanthournout

+32 2 551 15 33 t.vanthournout@liedekerke.com View profile

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).