Mr Koen Hoornaert > Van Olmen & Wynant > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
Van Olmen & Wynant Offices
AVENUE LOUISE 221
1050 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Mr Koen Hoornaert
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
Koen has a broad experience in all aspects of corporate law, in particular, regarding Belgian and cross-border mergers & acquisitions and private equity. He advises Belgian and foreign clients especially on share and assets acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance and general corporate law questions. In addition, Koen has a special focus on advising family businesses, their shareholders and directors. He was admitted to the Brussels bar and New York State bar in 2011.Before joining Van Olmen & Wynant in 2019, Koen worked for many years at the world’s premier global law firm. Koen was a teaching assistant at the law faculty of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) for several years and still is a voluntary scientific collaborator at the Institute for commercial and insolvency law at this university.
Languages
Dutch, French and English
Education
Koen graduated from Ghent University in 2009 (UGent) and was an exchange student at American University Washington College of Law in 2007. As a fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (B.A.E.F.) and Francqui Foundation, Koen obtained an LL.M. in International Business and Economic Law from Georgetown University Law Center in 2010 and was the class’ valedictorian. Koen also obtained a Master in American Studies at the University of Antwerp (UA) in 2011.
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A
In addition to advising on VC-backed financing rounds as well as on buy-and sell-side private equity transactions, Van Olmen & Wynant‘s core areas of expertise include employee stock option plans and strategic transactions involving family-owned businesses. The team is co-led by Koen Hoornaert, who is active across a spectrum of corporate transactional and governance matters, and Luc Wynant, who is particularly focused on handling share acquisitions, capital markets and private equity-related matters.