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Stibbe Offices

Stibbe
CENTRAL PLAZA
LOKSUMSTRAAT 25/ RUE DE LOXUM 25
1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Mr Jan Bogaert

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+32 2 533 54 02 jan.bogaert@stibbe.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate and M&A, Foreign Investments, Investment Funds, Investment Management

Position

Partner

 

Career

Jan Bogaert specialises in strategic and industrial M&A, with a special emphasis on cross-border transactions. He advises strategic and institutional investors in a wide range of sectors, including the infrastructure, energy and tech industry. Jan has extensive experience in advising clients in Europe, Asia and the US on complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, add-on acquisitions and disposals. He also advises on equity investments, corporate restructurings and general corporate and corporate governance matters. Jan provides tailor-made and commercially pragmatic advice to clients and is recognised for his strong technical expertise by the leading international legal directories.Jan spent five years in Stibbe’s Hong Kong office, which added a wealth of international experience to his transactional expertise. Benefiting from his particular knowledge in Asia outbound cross-border transactions into Europe, he now leads Stibbe’s China desk.

Languages

Dutch, French, English

Memberships

  • Registered Foreign Lawyer (Belgium) with the Law Society of Hong Kong (2012–present)
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce (BCECC)
  • Member of the Tax & Legal Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce
  • Vice-President of the Cross-Border Investment Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA)
  • Former board member of the Belgian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association
  • Former board member of Immobilia
  • Former board member of the Belgium-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce (BLCC) in Hong Kong
  • Former board member of the Shenzhen Commercial Legal Service Center

Education

  • Graduated in Law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2002)
  • Master of Laws in Corporate and Securities Law from King’s College London, United Kingdom (2003)
  • Admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2003
  • Seconded to the New York office of Stibbe (2007–2008)
  • Head of the Stibbe Hong Kong office (2012–2017)
  • With the Brussels office of Stibbe since 2003 (Partner since 2014)

Lawyer Rankings

Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Leading individuals)

Jan Bogaert – Stibbe

In addition to its ability to advise on high-value private equity transactions, the ‘experienced, pragmatic and solution-driven‘ team at Stibbe stands out for providing public and privately held companies in the industrials, energy, and life sciences sectors with complex transactional advice. The team handles both traditional M&A as well as a range of complex public takeovers, joint ventures, and multinational deals. Practice head Stefan Odeurs is noted for his ability to assist private equity funds with a wide range of transactions, an area that capital markets and corporate finance experts Dries Hommez and Jan Peeters also excel in. Pascal Vanden Borre is very experienced with public M&A, takeover bids, and cross-border investments, while Jan Bogaert is noted for handling transactions in regulated sectors.

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