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Mr Christoph Michiels
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Position
Christoph is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A department. His work is focused on corporate and financial law, M&A, private equity/venture capital and capital market transactions, areas on which he has written a number of publications.
Career
With over 20 years of experience in corporate transactional, advisory and restructuring work, he focuses on venture capital and private equity, assisting both founder and management teams as well as investors and investor syndicates throughout the different growth phases of start-ups and scale-ups. In this role Christoph leads the scale-up and investor initiatives within Deloitte Legal.
Next to his corporate work, Christoph also heads the Deloitte Legal life sciences and healthcare practice which leverages Deloitte Legal’s multi-disciplinary expertise in corporate, commercial, regulatory, IP and data protection. He assists in particular biotech and medtech start-ups and scale-ups throughout their development process.
In his role as head of the corporate compliance team, Christoph leads the corporate compliance practice of Deloitte Legal focusing on recurrent corporate secretarial work such as approval of annual accounts, replacement of directors, branch structures, etc. As such, he leads the legal entity management practice in Belgium and is in charge of the global roll-out of myInsight Entity Management (ELEMENT), a cloud based solution developed by Deloitte Legal for automated legal entity management.
Christoph is the partner in charge of Innovation within Deloitte Legal and over the past few years, he has become a strong believer in digital transformation of the legal profession and is eager to share his experience with clients and building partnerships with legal tech providers with a view to contribute in future proofing the legal profession.
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Private equity
Deloitte Legal is is capable of advising both private equity and venture capital investors as well as a large roster of start-up and scale-up clients on buy- and sell-side M&A, focusing in particular on early-stage investments and mid-market acquisitions. The firm regularly also regularly leverages its internal tax and financial advisory capabilities to provide its clients with comprehensive regulatory advice. David Roelens, Christoph Michiels, and Marc Van tieghem jointly lead the team and handle acquisitions, sales, and investments in a broad range of sectors. Tim Baart left the practice in December 2022, while Benoît Féron departed in May 2023.
Belgium > Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
Primarily based in Brussels, the team at Deloitte Legal exhibits ‘clear, in-depth‘ expertise across a broad range of areas, with particular emphasis on medtech regulatory matters. Practice head Christoph Michiels has ample expertise in venture capital and private equity transactions, regularly assisting investor syndicates and management teams with early stage spin off projects. Jean-Christophe Top acts for numerous pharma, digital health, and medtech clients in matters concerning ethics compliance and the commercialisation of novel therapies, while Matthias Vierstraete maintains an IP and IT focused practice in Ghent.
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- Tax
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: Media and entertainment
- Industry focus: Transport
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Real estate and construction
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Dispute resolution
- Industry focus: IT and telecoms
- Intellectual property
- Private equity