Jean-Sébastien Rombouts’ practice focuses on domestic and cross-border corporate and financial transactions, business reorganizations, and corporate governance matters.

Jean-Sébastien represents buyers and sellers in domestic and international M&A transactions, both public and private. He regularly advises companies on corporate and securities law questions, including governance, disclosure, shareholder activism, and market abuse matters.

He is published in the areas of corporate and securities law.

Jean-Sébastien was a stagiaire in 2016 and returned to the firm as an associate in 2018.

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Notable Experience

  • Banque Degroof Petercam in its sale to CA Indosuez, an entity of the Crédit Agricole group, for €1.59 billion.

  • Solvay in the global spin-off of its Specialty activities to Syensqo and the dual listing of Syensqo on Euronext Brussels and Euronext Paris.

  • Nethys in the sale of a stake of 75% minus one share in telecom operator VOO SA to Orange Belgium and the prior consolidation of Brutélé’s activities into VOO SA, and the subsequent rollover of its residual stake in VOO against Orange Belgium shares.

  • Aliaxis in its €1.88 billion all-cash tender offer to acquire all shares of Uponor.

  • Befimmo in the €1.4 billion voluntary tender offer to acquire all of its shares launched by RE Invest Belgium, an entity fully controlled by one of Brookfield’s real estate private funds.

  • Solvay in connection with the “one-share” ESG campaign that Bluebell Capital Partners launched against Solvay, including the settlement agreement reached.

  • Nethys in connection with the competitive sell-side M&A process run for the sale of a majority stake in TMT operator VOO SA and the negotiation of the sale of 75% in VOO SA to Orange Belgium.

  • Nethys in connection with the sale of Éditions de l’Avenir and the shares of L’Avenir Hebdo to IPM Group.

  • Umicore in its acquisition of Freeport-McMoRan’s cobalt refining and cathode precursor operations in Kokkola, Finland.

  • Axéréal in the acquisition of the global malt business of Cargill.

  • General Motors (GM) in the €1.3 billion sale of its Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary and in the €0.9 billion sale of GM Financial’s European operations to PSA Group.

  • Umicore in its €142.4 million sale of its Umicore Zinc Chemicals business to OpenGate Capital.

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