Michèle Grégoire > Jones Day > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

Jones Day fields a financial markets team of experts who provide ‘advice of high quality and work very pro-actively’, with increasing expertise acting for large private equity funds. Its growing securitisation and secured finance offering is particularly notable, as is its established debt capital markets practice. Ferdinand Brughmans, Matthieu Duplat, and Michèle Grégoire co-head the offering: Brughmans ‘a problem solver’ with longstanding leveraged and acquisition finance expertise; Duplat is a go-to for capital market transactions, and Grégoire is highlighted for her focus on business restructuring.

The ‘engaging, practical, and efficient’ dispute resolution team at Jones Day represents clients in civil and commercial matters with vast expertise in both cross-border litigation and arbitration. Working closely with the antitrust practice at the firm, competition and telecom-related disputes are both key strengths of the team, which also yields impressive banking and finance litigation capabilities. Sébastien Champagne heads the team, with a focus on disputes linked to trade practices, product liability, and private enforcement. Also of note is Michèle Grégoire, who has expertise in ESG-related disputes, and experience appearing before the Supreme Court. Vanessa Foncke is ‘strategic, commercially astute and has a huge legal brain’.