Mr Pieter-Jan Leemen > Stibbe > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Pieter-Jan Leemen
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Position
Counsel
Career
Pieter-Jan Leemen assists financial institutions, companies, and governments in Belgian and international financial transactions. Pieter-Jan focuses mainly on syndicated loans, takeover financing, restructurings, real estate financing, and project financing.
Languages
Dutch, French, English
Education
- Master’s degree in Law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2012)
- Admitted to the Brussels Bar and Antwerp Bar in 2012
- Junior Associate at a Belgian business law firm (2012–2015)
- Postgraduate degree in Corporate Finance from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2015)
- Associate in the Corporate and Finance department of Stibbe Brussels (September 2015–January 2016)
- Associate in the Brussels office of an international law firm (January 2016–August 2018)
- Legal counsel at a port operator in Antwerp (August 2018–March 2019)
- With the Brussels office of Stibbe again since 2019
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Banking, finance and capital markets
(Rising stars)Stibbe
remains highly active across the full spectrum of debt finance matters, with a team that is capable of handling leveraged private equity financings and real estate finance while maintaining a particularly strong focus on assisting both lenders and borrowers with financings for projects and joint ventures in the energy and infrastructure space. Debt capital markets and securitisation expert Pieter Nobels further extends the practice’s offering by enabling it to advise private and institutional lenders on cross-border bond issuances and uptierings. Wouter Ghijsels leads the team and is a key contacted for both syndicated and direct lending, especially in the context of acquisition and project finance. Pieter-Jan Leemen is also highly recommended for syndicated lending matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars Belgium > Banking, finance and capital markets
- Banking, finance and capital markets Belgium
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Competition: Belgian law
- Dispute resolution
- Environment
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: IT and telecoms
- Intellectual property
- Real estate and construction
Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- EU regulatory: Information technology
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: Media and entertainment
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Insurance
- Private equity
- Tax
- EU regulatory: Financial services
- EU regulatory: Pharma, medical devices and biotech
- Industry focus: Energy
- EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
- Competition: EU and global