Mr Dirk Van Gerven > NautaDutilh > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

NautaDutilh
CHAUSSÉE DE LA HULPE, 120
1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium

Work Department

Corporate M&A, Banking & Finance, Fraud & White Collar Crime

Position

Managing Partner

Career

Dirk Van Gerven has extensive experience in all areas of corporate and financial law. He regularly assits larger companies with reorganisations, acquisitions and other transactions and advises listed companies on a wide range of financial and coprorate issues.

He publishes frequently on selected topics in the fields of corporate and financial laws. His numerous publications have resulted in invitations to address both national and international meetings. He also wrote a book on gender equality in professional life.

Languages

Dutch, French and English

Memberships

Dirk is admitted to both the Brussels and New York bars. He has served as president of the Dutch-speaking chapter of the Brussels bar and is currently Vice-President of CEPANI (the Belgian arbitration institute). Since July 2003, Dirk has sat on the supervisory board of the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), which he currently presides. He is a member of the American Bar Association as well as of the International Bar Association and the New York Bar Association. Dirk is on the editorial board of TRV, a leading Belgian corporate law review.

Education

University of Leuven (KUL)

Lawyer Rankings

Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A

NautaDutilh‘s corporate practice is active across the Benelux region, with regional clients frequently instructing the team to advise on strategic transactions, private equity and venture capital deals, and restructuring projects that span across the three Benelux jurisdictions. In addition to its Benelux-based work, which also encompasses complex joint ventures, corporate governance, and corporate litigation matters, the team is regularly instructed by international clients to handle the Belgian aspects of global transactions. The team is co-led by Nicolas de Crombrugghe, who excels at handling M&A in regulated sectors such as energy and financial services, private equity expert Philippe Remels, and Dirk Van Gerven, whose ‘legal excellence‘ encompasses a wide range of M&A and restructuring matters.