Maurits Arnauw is a senior associate in the Corporate & Finance Practice Group.
He focuses on all corporate law matters, and in particular on mergers and acquisitions (both in national as in an international context). Maurits has also a specific expertise in capital markets transactions and complex infrastructure and public-private partnership projects. Maurits is part of the Liedekerke Start-up Team and advises (international) investors as well as start-ups and scale-ups on various business law matters.
He holds a master’s degree in law from Ghent University (UGent 2014) and a master’s degree in general management from Vlerick Business School (2015).
Maurits is a member of the Brussels Bar since 2015 and joined Liedekerke in 2017. Before joining Liedekerke, Maurits was part of the Corporate/M&A department of an international law firm.
Vlerick Business School (Master’s degree in General Management) 2015
Ghent University (Master’s degree in Law) 2014
Relevant expertise
M&A
Assisting Colruyt Group with several investments, including, most recently, in Smartmat/Foodbag (2022), the Seaweed Company (2022) and PlugInvest (2022)
Assisting Dept on the acquisition of digital studio Dogstudio (2022)
Assisting the sellers with the sale of E-POWER, E-POWER, a manufacturer of generators, to Vybros (2022)
Assisting Aquila Capital with its investment Ruien Energy Storage (RES), a joint venture with Nippon Koei (listed in Japan), YUSO and Aquila Capital focussing on a battery energy storage system in Ruien (Belgium).
Capital Markets
Assisting Bekaert on several capital markets transactions, including its 2019 and 2020 retail bond offerings and 2022 share buy-back programme
Assisting Belfius Bank as sole arranger in the EUR 45 million inaugural retail bond offering of MG Real Estate (2021)
Assisting Maxim Group as US bookrunner in a private placement of shares by Bone Therapeutics (2020)
Assisting several Irish issuers with the migrations of their shares to Euroclear Brussels following Brexit (2020)
