Hogan Lovells strengthens finance capabilities with main Brussels hires

International legislation agency Hogan Lovells is happy to announce that Ivan Peeters & Philip Van Steenwinkel are becoming a member of the agency in Brussels with a give attention to increasing the agency’s finance, capital markets and monetary regulatory providing. They be a part of with three associates.

“The addition of Ivan and Philip to our finance and capital markets team is an important step in our effort to strengthen our finance offering in Brussels particularly in the context of Brexit.” stated David Gibbons, Global Head of the Corporate & Finance Practice at Hogan Lovells. “Their experience will enhance our ability to support clients on cross-border finance deals throughout the CE region.”

Ivan is a number one practitioner with worldwide recognition in Europe, with a broad apply in advising on monetary transactions, structured financing, capital markets and securities rules, restructurings, and monetary sector rules. He combines lengthy and deep experience of monetary establishments and markets with common contributions to the event of Belgian laws, together with in relation to lined bonds, securitisation, collateral preparations and securities. His time as inhouse counsel at KBC and as a companion with reputed corporations like Freshfields, Stibbe and PwC Legal present him with a particular background to assist help shoppers deal with the most important present market developments.

Philip Van Steenwinkel is a number one practitioner in banking and monetary legislation, capital market transactions, structured finance and derivatives as well as different monetary merchandise. He acts for a variety of main monetary establishments and corporates in Belgium and throughout the globe.

Commenting, the duo stated: “We have worked with members of the Hogan Lovells network in the past and were always impressed by the firm’s high quality client service and the strength of its global platform. We see strong synergies with the Hogan Lovells offering. We are very excited to join and work with the team to continue to grow the firm’s finance capabilities cross- border and in the Belgian market generally.”