The corporate and M&A team at CMS takes a ‘very pragmatic approach’ to strategic restructuring, M&A transactions, buyouts, and takeovers. It regularly supports high-profile, multinational clients in their cross-jurisdictional transactions. Vincent Dirckx, practice head, has expertise spanning private equity and venture capital matters in the retail, life science, and renewable energy industries. For private and public company restructurings, Stéphane Collin is the go-to, and the energy sector is a particular area of expertise for Arnaud Van Oekel.
Testimonials
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‘Teams remain stable and are very responsive.’
‘The Partners are directly involved in all steps of the transaction and are always available. Partners are also good sounding board when we have to make a decision. They are pragmatic and not theoretical.’
Key clients
- Group Lagarrigue
- Coreso - TSC Net
Work highlights
- Assisting French Group Lagarrigue (through its acquired Belgian group led by Aqtor!, operating under the brand Eqwal), backed by the French private equity fund Naxicap, with its “buy and build” strategy in Belgium.
- Assisting Coreso and TSCnet Services with their trans-European partnership, called the CorNet Programme.