Mrs Katrien Vorlat > Strelia > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
Strelia Offices
RUE ROYALE/KONINGSSTRAAT 145
1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Mrs Katrien Vorlat
Work Department
Corporate M&A
Position
Katrien Vorlat is a partner in our Corporate and M&A practice.
Career
Katrien is an experienced transactional lawyer. She focuses on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and (corporate) venture capital. She is frequently retained to advise on the setting up, reorganisation or liquidation of business ventures in Belgium. Katrien has negotiated and structured a wide variety of M&A transactions, joint ventures, investment schemes and divestitures in the life sciences, IT/AI, logistics and insurance sectors in particular. She regularly represents US, European and other international clients investing in Belgium through acquisitions or joint ventures and greenfield operations. Furthermore, she assists Belgian clients with their domestic acquisitions as well their foreign investments.
Katrien is frequently retained to provide strategic-legal advice to non-profit organisations, companies, boards, special committees and shareholders on a wide range of corporate governance and disclosure matters.
She has been a participant on numerous panels addressing M&A, private equity or governance issues in domestic as well as cross-border contexts and has authored several articles on corporate law issues.
Languages
Dutch, English, French, German
Memberships
Katrien Vorlat is an independent member of the proxy voting committee of Degroof Petercam Asset Management S.A. She is also co-chair of the international PE/VC subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Education
Katrien has a law degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in 1990. She obtained an LL.M. degree from Yale Law School (1992) and also has a law degree from the University of Strasbourg Faculty of Comparative Law (1993).
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Strelia combines contentious and non-contentious capabilities in its corporate offering, which allows the team to comprehensively advise a large number of large Belgian and international companies in the life sciences, TMT, and energy sectors on strategic transactions, divestments, joint ventures, and post-M&A claims. Under the leadership of M&A and private equity specialist Gisèle Rosselle, the practice regularly collaborates with international partners to advise on multi-jurisdictional deals and is also prolific in handling Belgian mid-market transactions. Other key members of the team include managing partner Olivier Clevenbergh, who is noted for his expertise in corporate disputes, and M&A and joint venture expert Katrien Vorlat.
Belgium > Private equity
The ‘pragmatic and knowledgeable‘ team at Strelia advises private equity and venture capital funds as well as their portfolio companies on a wide range of transactions, financing rounds, and (re)investments, focusing heavily on regulated sectors such as life sciences and tech. Under the leadership of Gisèle Rosselle, the team handles the due diligence and negotiation aspects of a growing volume of cross-border M&A, frequently with the firm’s integrated employment and real estate capabilities to provide comprehensive regulatory advice. Further key contacts include transactional experts Katrien Vorlat and Laurent Verhavert.