Ms Natalie Ulburghs > Monard law > Hasselt, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
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GOUVERNEUR ROPPESINGEL 131
3500 HASSELT
Belgium
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Ms Natalie Ulburghs
Work Department
Corporate Law
Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Venture Capital
Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
Mediation
Position
Partner
Career
Natalie Ulburghs specializes in corporate law (focusing on mergers and acquisitions), commercial law, and energy law.
Natalie worked at different international law firms (in Belgium and the United States) and has very extensive experience in domestic and international transactions and complex contractual negotiations. She has been lead lawyer in several take-overs and restructurings in the energy and telecom sectors, among others. She assists clients in drafting and negotiating corporate law and commercial law contracts. In addition, she handles numerous types of matters in energy law, including those pertaining to heat networks and network operators.
Natalie is also a trained mediator. After working in Brussels for several years, she joined Monard Law as partner in 2007.
She is often a keynote speaker at seminars on the Code of Companies and Associations, among other topics.
Languages
Dutch, French, English
Education
Natalie graduated from KU Leuven in 1989 and has been a member of the Brussels Bar since then. During law school, she spent a semester studying at the Université de Poitiers (France) as part of the Erasmus exchange programme. During the academic year 1991-1992, she completed a Master of Laws from Duke University (USA). In 1992, she became a member of the New York Bar, and she practiced in the United States thereafter.
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Commercial, corporate and M&A
The corporate practice at Monard law, joined by Buyle has expanded at senior and junior levels, gaining restructuring expert Louis Verstraeten from ASTREA in June 2023 and banking and finance specialist Jean-Pierre Buyle and his team in April 2023. The unit continues to handle a wide range of transactional and corporate governance matters for Belgian start-ups and companies in the industrials and energy sectors. Commercial agreements and disputes are another key area of focus for the team, owing to the expertise of commercial expert Kristof Zadora, who co-leads the practice with transactional specialist Nicole Segers. Other key names in the team include corporate experts Pieter Van den Broeck, Jeroen Raskin, Benoit Samyn, and Natalie Ulburghs.
Belgium > Dispute resolution
Monard law, joined by Buyle is, according to clients, a ‘beacon of pragmatism and efficiency‘, with a range of experienced practitioners that have expertise across the spectrum of disputes. The firm notably has a focus on ESG litigation, with Jeroen Raskin active in this space, alongside M&A litigation and directors liability matters. In Brussels, Daan De Jaeger is a key name, acting for domestic and international clients in complex commercial and intellectual property disputes. Other noted practitioners within the Brussels team in addition to De Jaeger include Sebastien Verva, who leads the French practice of the firm. In Hasselt, a range of accomplished litigators form the team’s leadership, including Erik Monard, Natalie Ulburghs, Nicole Segers, Kristof Zadora, Geert Hayen, and Kris van der Beek. In Ghent, Stephane Criel and Charles Claeys are noted.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Not-for-profit
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Environment
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property
- Real estate and construction
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: IT and telecoms
- Private equity
- Tax
- Banking, finance and capital markets