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Frédéric Verspreeuwen KC
Work Department
Company law and M&A, Insurance law
Position
Frédéric Verspreeuwen is a partner at the Antwerp office of Astrea since 2009. He co-heads the Corporate and M&A practice of Astrea focusing on corporate transactions and restructuring matters in Belgium for multinationals, family-owned businesses, funds and family offices.
He has more than 20 years of experience advising in English, Dutch and French, domestic and international clients on national and international matters, also including complex corporate litigation matters. Frédéric is personally recommended in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and Legal500 and is ranked as a Highly Regarded Lawyer in the IFLR 1000.
Career
(2009 – present) Astrea – Partner
(2006 – 2009) Astrea – Lawyer
(2002 – 2006) Lawfort – Lawyer
(2001 – 2002) Buyle, Dieryck, Van Looveren, Mangain – Lawyer
Languages
Dutch, French, English and German.
Memberships
Frédéric Verspreeuwen is a member of VOKA, VMA and ROTARY.
Education
University of Brussels (2003) – Master after Master in Company Law
University of Ghent (2001) – Master after Master in Business Law
University of Antwerp (2000) – Master of Laws
University of Saarbrucken (1999) – Erasmus
University of Namur (1997) – Bachelor of Laws
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A
In addition to handling work in the private equity space, ASTREA‘s transactional practice advises on strategic M&A in a wide array of sectors, with a particularly established base of media and automotive clients. The team’s portfolio of M&A work includes real estate transactions, start-up and scale-up investments, and cross-border deals. Frédéric Verspreeuwen, who advises on governance and litigation matters in addition to transactional work, co-leads the practice with private equity and venture capital expert Micha Van den Abeele and corporate finance specialist Dieter Veestraeten. Former practice co-head Steven De Schrijver left the team in late 2022.