Bio

Thierry Bosly is White & Case's Global Co-Head of Private Equity, and Head of the Firm's Belgium and Luxembourg transactional practices. Thierry is a highly regarded lawyer, with more than 30 years of experience in the resolution of complex cross-border transactions, advising private equity and venture capital firms, family offices, global and European-based investors and other financial sponsors. His practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including public and private acquisitions and divestitures, leveraged buyouts, going private transactions, tender offers, preferred equity investments and joint ventures. He is consistently recognized by Chambers and Legal 500 as "leading individual" for the Private Equity and M&A practices, and is described by clients as "having a true strategic point of view, backed with a very strong legal knowledge" (The Legal 500, 2023), "combining expert and precise technical knowledge with a sense of commercial awareness" (Chambers, 2023). Thierry is included in the list of the 'Twenty Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers 2023' by Private Equity News and 'Fifty Most Influential Lawyers in Europe' by Financial News. Thierry has also developed an enviable professional reputation outside his everyday practice, being acknowledged as one of Belgium's foremost insolvency lawyers. His clients include companies facing insolvency, as well as companies interested in purchasing assets from insolvency debtors. With extensive experience of working with overseas counsel and coordinating advice across different territories, Thierry has been noted for his leadership role in significant cross-border and multijurisdictional restructurings and is consistently recognized by Chambers and Legal 500 as being a "leading individual" for the practice of Insolvency and Restructuring. In 2008, he was appointed by the Belgian Minister of Justice to a commission of seven experts, responsible for drafting the insolvency law. In 2020, in response to the crisis due to COVID-19, the Belgian federal government appointed him as special advisor to work on editing the law on insolvency and enforcement proceedings, in order to help enterprises in financial distress navigate the crisis. Thierry is a member of the Belgian arbitration and mediation center CEPANI, an independent facility composed of business leaders, academics, corporate legal experts and lawyers. He is also a member of the European Law Alumni Advisory Board of the Georgetown University Law Center.