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Corporate Law and M&A

The Corporate Law and M&A department provides comprehensive legal services, covering day-to-day business operations, corporate governance, restructuring, and shareholder agreements. They specialize in mergers, acquisitions, and private equity transactions, offering expertise in due diligence, deal structuring, and post-acquisition litigation, with a global network for cross-border transactions.

1. Corporate Law and M&A

Our corporate law department provides our clients strategic and commercial legal services in the full spectrum of corporate law matters, such as:

  • Managing the operational issues of day-to-day business
  • Legal audit
  • Negotiating, drafting and implementing partnership and shareholder agreements
  • Corporate governance: advising senior management and boards of directors on corporate governance and liability management, corporate governance policies, governance frameworks, disclosure, internal control and relationship with shareholders and other stakeholders
  • Changes of corporate form and other forms of corporate restructuring
  • Preparing and holding of shareholders’ meetings of listed and non-listed companies
  • Incorporation of Companies
  • Preparing fund documentation for investors and fund sponsors
  • Assisting in shareholders’ disputes
  • White collar crime

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2. Mergers & Acquisitions

Our team has extensive expertise in representing entrepreneurs, companies, (investment) banks, private equity firms and other investors for the successful completion of complex corporate and M&A transactions in Belgium and around the world.
In cross-border transactions, we are able to cooperate with lawyers from our large international network of experienced lawyers.

  • Venture Capital, private equity and strategic investments :
  • Corporate acquisitions (share and asset deals), mergers, joint ventures, buy-outs: 
    • Structuring of private M&A transactions
    • “Pre-contract” agreements
    • Due Diligence and risk assessment for  acquisitions
    • Sale and purchase agreements
  • Shareholders structuring and shareholders agreements 
  • Mezzanine funding 
  • Post-acquisition litigation

Latest news on this expertise

Belgium transposes the Women on Boards Directive: a further step towards more balanced corporate governance

08.09.2026

Corporate Law and M&A, Andersen in Belgium

Belgium transposes the Women on Boards Directive: a further step towards more balanced corporate governance

On 18 July 2026, the Council of Ministers approved, at second reading, the preliminary draft law transposing Directive (EU) 2022/2381, better known as the Women on Boards Directive. The Directive aims to address the underrepresentation of women on the boards of listed companies and to promote equal opportunities in the appointment of directors. According to the European legislator, a balanced representation of women and men not only contributes to achieving the principle of equality, but also supports better decision-making, stronger corporate governance and greater economic competitiveness.

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Belgium takes a first step towards digital European company law

03.09.2026

Corporate Law and M&A, Andersen in Belgium

Belgium takes a first step towards digital European company law

On 3 July 2026, the Belgian federal Council of Ministers approved a preliminary draft law which, among other things, transposes a first component of Directive (EU) 2025/25 into Belgian law. This concerns the obligation to subject the incorporation documents and amendments to the articles of association of a general partnership (VOF/SNC) or limited partnership (CommV/SComm) to prior administrative, judicial or notarial review.

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EU Inc.: Your Future European Company?

13.05.2026

Corporate Law and M&A, Andersen in Belgium

EU Inc.: Your Future European Company?

With the EU Inc. proposal, the European Commission is taking an important step towards a more modern and integrated European business environment. The idea is simple, yet ambitious: to create a corporate framework that would coexist alongside existing national company forms and allow businesses to operate across the European Union in a simpler, faster and more digital way.

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From Analysis to Certainty: The Importance of Thorough Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

13.05.2026

Corporate Law and M&A, Andersen in Belgium

From Analysis to Certainty: The Importance of Thorough Due Diligence in M&A Transactions

Literally translated, the term due diligence means “appropriate care”, which already says quite a lot in itself: a thorough and careful preliminary investigation of the company one is considering acquiring (through a share purchase). Or of the company one intends to transfer, because indeed a preliminary investigation may also be carried out on behalf of a seller, although this obviously serves a very different purpose.

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