Roel Meers Bio

Roel Meers is a partner in the Corporate Finance Practice Group of Baker McKenzie's Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1997. Roel is head of the Corporate Finance Practice Group of Baker McKenzie in Belgium. He is also chair of the EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Group, and a member of the steering committee of the Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Group and the EMEA Capital Markets Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. Roel is consistently mentioned as a leading lawyer in Chambers Global and the European Legal 500 for Belgium. Roel Meers is considered by clients to be "pragmatic, insightful" and "a go-to lawyer for capital markets." Roel advises clients in the field of corporate finance, covering mergers and acquisitions (public and private), private equity transactions, as well as security offerings, listings and other capital market transactions. He also advises on complex corporate restructurings, corporate governance matters, and shareholder activism. The corporate finance and capital markets expertise of Baker McKenzie in Belgium is consistently recognised by Chambers, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000 as one of the main corporate finance teams in Belgium advising on a wide range of complex, often cross-border M&A, private equity, and public market transactions, including public M&A and takeover attempts, buyouts, and spin-offs.