Praised for its ‘pragmatic, efficient and high quality’ advice, the ARGO Law banking, finance, and capital markets offering ’is well placed to serve both corporates and private equity firms’. The banking department, headed by Pieter Bogaerts, has a focus on debt finance transactions, asset-backed finance schemes, and financial regulatory work. Nico Goossens heads the capital markets group, which covers equity and debt capital markets transactions for both issuers and banks.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

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  • ‘The team is well placed to serve both corporates and private equity firms and support them with their envisaged legal structures, acquisition agreements, financing structures and overall corporate legal coverage.'

  • ‘From our point of view, Christophe Verhelst has been instrumental and a driving force of Argo's banking and finance capabilities, extremely well perceived by both borrowers and lenders.’

Key clients

  • Cmb
  • Quarzwerke

Work highlights

Advised longstanding client CMB on reaching an agreement with Frontline and John Fredriksen on a solution for the deadlock at Euronav.
Practice head

Nico Goossens; Pieter Bogaerts

Other key lawyers

Bert Van Ingelghem; Henri Nelen; Christophe Verhelst