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.
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.’
‘The Argo team is highly experienced in capital market transactions in Belgium. They stand out in terms of delivering legal advice that is pragmatic, efficient and high quality.'
- 'They truly work TOGETHER with the in-house group counsel as a partnership aiming to provide legal advice that is both top-notch from a legal perspective and tailored to the client's needs.’
‘Allrounders. Extremely pragmatic and solution driven.'
‘Propose solutions, not options!’
‘Clear advice. To the point. Convincing in the board room.’
‘Nico Goossens, senior statesperson.'
Key clients
- Cmb
- Quarzwerke
- Savarex (Exmar)
- Montea
- Cmb Nv
- Vastned Belgium
- Gimv
- Lizy
- Bencis Capital Partners - Equine Care Group
- Vgp
- Exmar Nv
- Ing Belgium
- Belfius Bank
- Strada Partners
Work highlights
- Advised longstanding client CMB on reaching an agreement with Frontline and John Fredriksen on a solution for the deadlock at Euronav.
- Advised new client Quarzwerke on the sale of its stake through a EUR610m self-tender offer by Sibelco.
- Assisted Strada Partners and its portfolio company AXI with the legal split of its activities in a software branch and a digital services branch.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nico Goossens, Pieter Bogaerts