Mr Bart Vanstaen > PwC Legal > BRUSSELS, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
PwC Legal Offices
Woluwedal 18
1932 Sint-Stevens-Woluwe
BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Mr Bart Vanstaen
Work Department
Corporate law, M&A, Commercial law, Business contracts
Position
Advocaat Vennoot / Avocat Associé, PwC Legal BV/SRL
Career
Bart is specialised in all areas of corporate law and structuring, M&A, commercial law and business contracts. Bart has extensive experience advising Belgian and international clients with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. His involvement includes legal due diligence, legal structuring of transactions, drafting of transaction documentation, assistance with negotiations, signing and closing and post-acquisition restructurings.
He assisted various large corporates and other organisations with complex structuring, legal entity simplification and corporate transformational projects. He advised various multinational groups with the legal aspects and implementation of transfer pricing and value chain transformation projects.
Professional background
2017 – present
Advocaat vennoot/Avocat Associé, PwC Legal – Member of the Brussels Bar
2013 – 2017
Senior Managing Associate, PwC Legal
2006 – 2013
Legal Consultant to Senior Manager, Corporate & Commercial department, PwC Belgium
Publications
- “Ceci n’est pas un tiers – De fiscus is geen derde in de zin van de bepalingen omtrent de tegenwerpelijkheid van akten van vennootschappen met rechtspersoonlijkheid”, noot onder Cass. 2 september 2016, trv-rps 2018/1.
- “De implementatie van het UBO-register”, Accountancy & Fiscaliteit 2018, nr. 30.
- “Waarom (intragroep) contracten de aandacht verdienen van zowel een juridisch als fiscaal expert”, Accountancy & Fiscaliteit 2015, nr.1, 5.
- ”Zitje in een raad van bestuur? Blijf niet stilzitten!” in Dynamiek / Entreprendre (BECI), December 2012
Languages
He speaks Dutch, English and French.
Memberships
Bart is a member of the general assembly of the Flemish bar association (Orde van Vlaamse Balies).
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A
The ‘broad and experienced multidisciplinary team‘ at PwC Legal stands out for its ability to draw on the firm’s international network in advising both domestic and multinational corporate clients on M&A, corporate reorganisation projects, and digital transformations. The team’s strong regulatory capabilities enable it to provide due diligence advice in connection with cross-border corporate and private equity transactions, commercial agreements, and multijurisdictional corporate undertakings. Led by transactional and governance expert Karin Winters, the team also draws on the expertise of Pierre Queritet, who is very experienced with M&A, and ESG specialist Bart Vanstaen.