Louis-Francois du Castillon Bio

With a strong financial law and real estate background, Louis-François primarily focuses on domestic or cross-border transactions, with a particular focus on the private equity, venture capital, industrial, real estate and technology sectors. His work includes drafting share (or assets) purchase agreements, joint-venture agreement, subscription and shareholders agreements as well as the ancillary contractual documentation. He also has experience in employees incentive matters (stock option plans). Louis-François also deals with complex, cross-border, corporate restructurings and he also has significant expertise in public reorganisations, which includes significant expertise with (international) not-for-profit entities (associations, public interest companies, sui generis entities, ...), simplification of governmental bodies and drafting legislation. He assists his clients, ranging from promising start-ups or scale-ups to transnational groups at every stage of their growth and provide them with strategic corporate advice (joint-venture, shareholders agreements, growth capital, stock option plans, convertible bonds / loans, complex governance schemes, etc.). Louis-François has authored a number of publications on corporate law, corporate governance and finance law and he is currently teaching assistant at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.) in the field of insolvency and general principles applicable to legal entities. He has been recurrently ranked in Chambers and in Legal 500.