Liedekerke

Banking & Finance

Partner

Thomas Vanthournout specialises in banking and finance transactions and projects.

He is primarily involved in syndicated lending, project finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance and trade finance transactions in Belgium and across Africa.

During his career he gained extensive experience representing a wide range of international banks, development finance institutions, private equity sponsors, real estate developers and corporate borrowers on domestic and cross-border finance transactions. He has a particular expertise in the financing of complex and multi-stakeholder energy, infrastructure and mining projects.

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 further obtained a master of laws (LL.M.) in International Financial Law from King’s College London (2013) and holds a postgraduate degree in Corporate Finance from KU Leuven (summa cum laude, 2021).

Before joining Liedekerke, Thomas worked in the Brussels, Amsterdam and London offices of an international law firm, and has also been seconded as legal counsel to BNP Paribas Fortis in Brussels.

Thomas joined Liedekerke in 2021.

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