Valérie Simonart
Partner
Valérie Simonart is a member of the Corporate and Finance Practice Group.
She focuses on corporate advice, governance structures, corporate reorganisations and capital market operations. She has a particular expertise in listed companies and real estate companies (such as REIT’s), as well as in structural solutions combining corporate and real estate mechanisms.
She acts for listed, institutional and private companies, as well as for shareholders and for not-for-profit organisations.
Valérie is also a professor at the University of Brussels (ULB) where she teaches in Company Law and International Company Law.
She is the author of numerous authoritative books and articles in the areas of company law and association law.
Valérie began practising law in 1987 and joined Liedekerke in 1994, where she became a Partner in 1997.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revue Pratique des Sociétés - Tijdschrift voor Rechtspersoon en Vennootschap." She is also a member of the Centre belge du droit des sociétés – Belgisch Centrum voor Vennootschapsrecht.
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Studies
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (doctor of Laws) 1993
University of Michigan (LL.M.) 1987
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Law degree) 1986
Relevant expertise
Assisting a listed company on mergers.
Assisting a group of non-for-profit associations in the education sector on the simplification of their structure through mergers and other operations.
Assisting an international professional non-for-profit association in the revision of its corporate and governance structure.
Publications/Speaking Engagements
Valérie Simonart has authored a number of books, including:
Legal Personality in Comparative Private Law, 1995
Treatise on Companies (3 volumes ; 1996, 1997 et 2005) (in cooperation)
The regulation of REIT’s, 2013 (sicafi / bevak) and 2014 (SIR / GVV) (in cooperation)
Partnerships and limited partnerships, 2014
Non-profit associations, international non-profit associations and foundations, 2016
She also published many articles in company law, financial law and corporate governance, including:
“Domestic Conversions”, R.P.S.-T.R.V., 2019, p. 802-806
“Provisional Law”, in The New Belgian Code of Companies and Associations under Scrutiny, Anthemis, 2019, p. 519-553
« Conflicts of interests », in Corporate governance in the 21st century, Anthemis, 2020, p. 231-267
Memberships & Admissions
Member of the Brussels Bar
Languages
- French
- English
- Dutch