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Carl Leermakers
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Carl Leermakers

Languages
  • Dutch
  • French
  • English
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Carl Leermakers specializes in mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactional work, inter alia in the energy and ICT sectors. With more than thirty years of experience in M&A within CMS Belgium, his expertise ranges from advising on international corporate structures, over assisting clients in negotiating acquisitions, public offerings and take-over bids, to setting up leveraged buy-outs and exit strategies, tailoring W&I insurances and assessing and negotiating compliance with regulatory requirements. He also conducts litigation related to acquisitions, mostly claims on representations and warranties, including W&I insurance claims. 

Relevant experience

  • Advising the purchaser in a public takeover bid of a large Belgian banking and insurance company
  • IPO, Europe-wide, of financial instruments representing investments in ‘green energy’
  • Restructuring and refinancing (through tolling and securitisation) for the Belgian operations of an international group, (Legal 500 – 2008)
  • Advising international insurers on representations and warranties insurances linked to acquisitions in Belgium
  • Claims management for international insurers on around 60% of all claims involving, since 2007, more than 100 million EUR exposure for insurers in Belgium
  • Cross-border mergers of Belgian and EU banks and insurance companies

Education

  • 1990 - Bar admission (Brussels, Belgium)
  • 1990 - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven (Postgraduate degree in Notarial Law)
  • 1989 - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, KU Leuven (Law Degree)