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The banking and finance team at Fieldfisher provides ‘top-quality legal work’ and is particularly highlighted for its leveraged and acquisition financing transactions, both domestically and across Europe. It works closely with the firm’s energy and environmental team to handle a wide range of project finance mandates, a particular area of expertise for Dennis Lievens, and also counts real estate finance as an area of strength. Sofie Heremans, team head, is praised for her ’invaluable talent’ in handling complex matters, with an emphasis on her skill in acquisition finance. For debt capital markets work, Dorothée Vanderhofstadt is recommended.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The Fieldfisher Banking, finance and capital markets team provides not only top-quality legal work but also excels when it comes to understanding and anticipating the client's expectations and commercial requirements.'

  • 'Responsiveness, reliability and availability.’

  • ‘Sofie Heremans should be praised not only for her deep legal expertise in the field of acquisition finance but also for invaluable talent to navigate complex issues with a pragmatic approach, efficiency, and clarity. She consistently offers sound advice that takes into account or even anticipates client expectations.'

  • 'Dennis Lievens has a profound legal expertise in project finance in the broadest possible sense, i.e. he not only gives top-quality legal advice on the project finance as such but on the overall project and all other commercial project agreements, thereby having due consideration for potential interferences between all such agreements.'
  • 'Both Sofie Heremans and Dennis Lievens are a pleasure to work with: professional, personable, and always responsive.’

Key clients

  • 3D Investors
  • Baltisse
  • BeeBonds
  • Belfius Bank
  • Besix Group NV
  • Billtrust
  • BNP Paribas Fortis
  • Creafund
  • Credit Mutuel Factoring
  • Deutsche Hypo
  • Norddeutsche Landesbank
  • DG Infra Yield
  • Dovesco
  • Elewan Energy
  • ING Belgium NV/SA
  • KBC Bank
  • Mezzanine Partners 2
  • Parte Group
  • pppconnect
  • Rebelvalley B.V.
  • SeaCoop
  • Sereni Group
  • Sibelco
  • Sigmaroc
  • SOFINDEV
  • Storm
  • Swen Capital Partners
  • SynPet NV
  • Tenax European Credit Fund
  • Tenax Capital Partners
  • Triodos Bank
  • TINC
  • Vandersanden Steenfabrieken
  • Waterland

Work highlights

  • Advised Sigmaroc plc on the EUR875m acquisition finance for the reverse takeover of New York-listed limestone producer CRH's European Lime Perimeter.
  • Assisted Deutsche Hypo - NORD/LB with several real estate financing matters, including a real estate financing made available to The First NV (sponsor: Union Investment Real Estate GmbH) for the refinancing of shareholder debt used to finance the acquisition of a multi-tenant office building 'The First' located at the heart of the European Quarter in Brussels.
  • Assisted a consortium of BESIX Group NV, Rebelvalley B.V., pppconnect B.V., and PMV NV with a bid for the DBFM Brussels Fire Station PPP project (deal value of EUR268m).

Lawyers

Next Generation Partners
Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sofie Heremans

Other key lawyers

Dennis Lievens, Dorothée Vanderhofstadt