Jones Day

Corporate/M&A

Partner

Pierre-Olivier Mahieu focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and equity capital market transactions. He advises local and international clients on inbound and outbound transactions and has more than 30 years of experience in Belgian, European, and other cross-border transactions.

Pierre-Olivier has represented clients in various sectors, including the life sciences, retail, aerospace, technology, energy, private equity, and banking and insurance industries.

He recently advised LDz Group (formerly Louis Delhaize, a French-Belgian retailer) in the sale of hypermarket chain Cora to Mitiska REIM; Brussels Airport Company on the indirect transfer of 39% of its shares from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to Flemish government agency PMV; the Riverside Company on the sale by its portfolio company, A.forall, of its Retail & Hospital (R&H) business unit to Abacus Medicine; and Aviapartner on the sale of its air cargo activities at Brussels Airport to Worldwide Flight Services and in Liège Airport to SAL Saudi Logistics Services.

Fluent in French, Dutch, English, and Spanish and has basic knowledge of Mandarin.

University of Virginia (LL.M. 1991); Catholic University of Louvain (Law Degree 1989); University Saint-Louis Brussels (Candidate in Law 1986)