Partner

Wim Dejonghe

Location:  United Kingdom

Practice(s):  Commercial Contracts , Communications, Media and Technology , Corporate Governance , Energy and Utilities , Equity Capital Markets , Financial Institutions , General Company Advice , Joint Ventures , Mergers and Acquisitions , Partnerships , Private Equity

Date Joined:  2001 (joined Loeff Claeys Verbeke in 1993)

Education:  University of Louvain (KUL) (law degree)

Spoken Languages:  Dutch, French, English, Spanish, German

Experience: 

Wim Dejonghe is the worldwide Managing Partner of Allen & Overy LLP. He practises business and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, public fundraising and privatisation. Wim Dejonghe co-wrote the book "M&A in Belgium", the first in-depth and comprehensive legal guide to Belgian M&A transactions. He has practised law in the USA (New York and Washington) and in Spain (Barcelona).

Published work

  • "Mergers and Acquisitions in Belgium" Wim Dejonghe and Wouter Van de Voorde (the first in-depth and comprehensive legal guide to Belgian M&A transactions) 2001, Kluwer Law International The Hague, London, Boston
  • Chapter on Belgium in European Counsel Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook 2000 – Millenium Edition "From Bid to Closing"
  • Articles on mergers and acquisitions in several editions of Vennootschapsrecht & Fiscaliteit
  • J. Steenbergen and W. Dejonghe, "L'Exécution forcée d'obligations libellées en Ecu", ECU, no 5-88/IV, pp. 3-8
  • "Het verbod van discriminatie bij overheidsopdrachten voor leveringen", S.E.W. 1986, pp. 183-198.
My contact details

Bishops Square
Allen & Overy LLP
One Bishops Square
London
E1 6AD
United Kingdom

Tel: +32 3 287 75 19

Wim.Dejonghe @allenovery.com