Luka Roosen

Luka Roosen

Associate, Brussels

“As a lawyer in the Belgian corporate and finance team, I advise both national and international clients on a broad range of matters, with a particular interest in M&A and equity capital markets.”

Overview

Education and qualifications

Overview

Luka joined the Brussels Corporate and Finance practice in September 2021. He advises clients on all aspects of corporate law and has a particular interest in M&A, PE and equity capital markets.

Work highlights

Luka’s recent notable ECM experience includes advising:

  • SCR-Sibelco NV: advising on its €610m conditional voluntary public tender offer to buy back up to 89,051 shares (corresponding to up to 18.94% of the existing shares issued by Sibelco).
  • Elia Group: advising on its €590m rights offering (the largest rights offering in Belgium since 2015)
  • Different underwriters, advising on:
    - the €302m rights offering of VGP.
    - the €11.5m ABB of new shares (2024), the €15m ABB of new shares and warrants (2023) and the €28.4m ABB of new shares (2022) of Sequana Medical.

Luka’s recent notable M&A experience includes advising:

  • 4 healthy pets NV: advising the leading independent petfood company “Edgard & Cooper” on the sale of 100% of its shares to a subsidiary of General Mills Inc.
  • Robur Capital and management: advising on the sale of all the shares in Rev-Up NV, the holding company of the Step-Up group, to Kantar and the subsequent reinvestment by the management.
     

Education and qualifications

Luka holds a Masters of Law from the University of Ghent and followed an LLM at King’s College in International Financial Law (London). Luka obtained his bachelor degree in Law from the University of Ghent.