Isabelle is an expert in corporate, corporate finance and commercial law. She advises international clients on multi-jurisdictional deals, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisation, corporate finance and debt structuring. She has also a longstanding experience in logistics, transport, maritime and aviation transactions.

Isabelle's experience

  • Assisted a leading listed shipping company regarding the intragroup corporate restructuring of its companies based in Luxembourg and in Hungary and the restructuring of the debt of the companies belonging to the group.

  • Assisted Thermo Fisher Scientific INC. on the acquisition of a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, having 9,000 employees and several premises in Europe and North America.

  • Assisted a global professional services firm in the repatriation of cash done partially as a dividend distribution through the chain of companies and partially as a repurchase and cancellation of hybrid instruments.

    • Luxembourg
  • Assisted a maritime group on a group reorganisation by way of a reduction of the number of French special purpose companies owning vessels and leasing such vessels to the maritime group's bareboat charterers.

  • Assisted a global professional services firm to improve the management of the group cash needs and accelerate the repatriation process in the context of the Covid-19 crisis by way of an alignment of the US financing structure with the objectives of group cash project.

    • Luxembourg and USA
  • Assisted a maritime group on the reflagging of vessels to Luxembourg and registration of Luxembourg law mortgages.

  • Assisted a maritime group on several maritime mortgage releases on vessels.

  • Assisted a global professional services firm in the acquisition of a British multinational insurance corporation.

    • United Kingdom
  • Assisted Thermo Fisher Scientific INC on the reorganisation of the group including different phases with the objective to integrate newly acquired companies and optimise group’s organisation. It included unprecedented and very technical requirements.

  • Assisted a group of banks in an €3 billion equity and debt restructuring of a shipowner and in a restructuring of the mortgages on the vessels registered in Luxembourg.

Credentials

  • 2022
    Joined Pinsent Masons
  • 2017
    Wildgen - Partner
  • 2013
    Wildgen - Director
  • 2011
    Admitted to Bar - Luxembourg
  • 2010
    Wildgen - Senior Associate
  • 2008
    Centralis Group - Managing Director
  • 2007
    Wildgen - Associate
  • 2003
    Gras Savoye SA - Legal manager
  • 1998
    Syntegra SA (British Telecom) - In-house business lawyer
  • 1995
    CP Bourg SA - In-house lawyer
  • 1994
    Trainee lawyer - Belgium
  • 1993
    University Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) - Master in Law
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