Olivier Van Wouwe
Expertise
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He is a thought leader in the private equity industry and has extensive experience with and comprehensive knowledge of various regulated and non-regulated sectors, such as healthcare, engineering and consulting, telecommunications, IT, construction and real estate, and industrials.
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Work highlights
- Bain Capital on variety of transactions, including its acquisition of a majority stake in House of HR;
- Astorg on its acquisition of Ipcom, a leading insulation solutions provider;
- Technip Energies on the creation of its hydrogen joint venture Rely with John Cockerill;
- BHF Kleinwort Benson Group with respect to the (unsolicited) public takeover offer from Fosun and subsequent sales to Oddo and Société Générale*;
- arGEN-X on its initial public offering on Euronext Brussels*;
- Underwriters of Biocartis' initial public offering on Euronext Brussels*; and
- Underwriters of Tessenderlo Chemie's and Recticel's rights issue on Euronext Brussels*.
*Matters handled prior to joining NautaDutilh.
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Qualifications
Olivier received his law degree in 2012 from Ghent University graduating summa cum laude and obtained a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Chicago in 2013. From 2013 to 2019, he worked for several top tier international law firms. From 2019 to 2022, he worked in-house at a global manufacturer of building materials and was general counsel at a pan-European business communication player. He joined NautaDutilh in 2022.