Sophie Rutten
Senior Counsel
Brussels
Sophie Rutten
Senior Counsel
Brussels
Contact details
Sophie is a senior counsel in our corporate practice, specialising in corporate law. She has broad experience in equity and debt capital markets transactions, including IPOs, rights issues, private placements and block trades. Sophie advises a wide range of clients and sectors, including but not limited to the financial & banking, life sciences and real estate sectors.
Qualifications
Professional
Stagiair, Belgium, 1994
Admitted as advocate, Belgium, 1998
Academic
Law Degree, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), 1993
LLM, New York University, 1994
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Experience highlights
Advising Balta, as issuer, and a global private equity firm, as selling shareholder, on Balta's EUR500m initial public offering and listing of its shares on Euronext Brussels.
Advising Realdolmen, the IT provider in Belgium and Luxembourg, on the voluntary and conditional takeover bid by Gfi Informatique, a major player in digital solutions and services (value EUR196m).
Advising Newton Biocapital, on the establishment of its first EUR200m venture capital fund focused on financing biotech and life science projects for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases, Newton Biocapital I pricaf privée.
Advising The Belgian Corporate Governance Commission on a comparative study of the Belgian Corporate Governance Code to assess whether there was a need to make revisions to the code in 2012 and 2017.
Qualifications
Professional
Stagiair, Belgium, 1994
Admitted as advocate, Belgium, 1998
Academic
Law Degree, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), 1993
LLM, New York University, 1994
Other noteworthy experience
Advising:
- A group of financial institutions as underwriters on the IPO of Shurgard Self Storage Europe SA and listing of its shares on Euronext Brussels.
- A group of financial institutions as underwriters on the initial public offering of X-Fab and listing of its shares on Euronext Brussels and Euronext Paris.
- Sipef, a Belgian agro-industrial company listed on Euronext Brussels, on the USD100m acquisition of a 36.84% stake in Agro Muko from Evans group and the equity financing thereof through a rights issue.
- Allfin on its merger with Immobel, the listed Belgium-based real estate developer. This transaction created the largest listed real-estate development group in Belgium.
- Bone Therapeutics, a Belgian biotechnology company, on its IPO on Euronext Brussels and Paris.
- Celyad, the Belgian biotechnology company, on its IPO on Euronext Brussels and Paris and on the EU aspects of its subsequent IPO on NASDAQ.
Published work
- De impact (vennootschapsrechtelijk en fiscaal) van 'corporate actions' op warrants, Tijdschrift voor rechtspersoon & vennootschap, trv nr 2007/5, August 2007, Patrick Smet and Sophie Rutten
- Kan een naamloze vennootschap automatisch converteerbare obligaties en omgekeerd converteerbare obligaties uitgeven en wat is de bescherming van de houder van die effecten? Tijdschrift Financieel Recht, T.Fin.R. 2006/2, Pascal Weerts and Sophie Rutten
- Europese Corporate Governance aanbevelingen inzake bestuurdersvergoedingen (over fat cats en rewards for failure), Tijdschrift voor rechtspersoon & vennootschap, trv nr 2004/5, Dirk Meeus and Sophie Rutten
- Het lot van werknemersopties bij openbaar overnamebod en uitkoopbod Bank, Tijdschrift Financieel Recht, T.Fin.R. 2004/1, Johan Bohets and Sophie Rutten
