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Corporate M&A and Capital Markets

Counsel

Carl Clottens is a distinguished corporate lawyer with vast experience in all areas of corporate and financial law. He regularly assists larger domestic and international companies with (often complex and strategic) corporate restructurings, public and private M&A and other transactions, including capital markets transactions, as well as private equity and venture capital transactions.

He advises listed and non-listed companies, cooperatives and non-profit associations on a wide range of financial and corporate matters, including corporate governance and compliance and handles matters relating to corporate investigations and corporate litigation.

He was admitted to the Brussels bar in 2004.

Carl combines his practical experience as a lawyer with academic functions at the University of Leuven and the University of Antwerp, where he has lectured for many years on Corporate Governance and International M&A. He is on the editorial board of TRV-RPS, a leading Belgian corporate law review. He is a member of the Belgian Centre for Company Law (BCV-CDS) and an alternate member of the Advisory Committee on Companies and Associations (CASAVV). Carl was closely involved in the preparation of the new Belgian Code of Companies and Associations adopted in 2019.

Carl graduated magna cum laude from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in 2004. In 2011, he obtained a Ph.D. at the same university with a doctoral thesis on Proportionality of voting rights and risk-bearing in stock companies, which was awarded the triannual Prize Pierre Coppens.