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Experience and career history

Bert De Maeyer specialises in banking and projects. Bert advises borrowers and lenders on a broad range of finance transactions including syndicates loans, bid finance, leveraged transactions, project and infrastructure finance, real estate finance, insolvency and restructuring, and he acts for contractors, investors, lenders and multilaterals on projects across all asset types and sectors.

Bert is a member of industry organisations AEDBF (Association Européenne pour le Droit Bancaire et Financier), ABF (Avocats en Droit Boursier et Financier) and IPFA (International Project Finance Association), and he is recognised as a leading banking and projects lawyer by various directories (Chambers, IFLR 1000, Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer).

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 1999
University of California Los Angeles 2000
Joined Clifford Chance 2000
Admitted as an avocat in Brussels 2003
Partner since 2010

Speaks Dutch, French and English

Professional bodies

AEDBF (Association Européenne pour le Droit Bancaire et Financier)
ABF (Avocats en Droit Boursier et Financier), IPFA (International Project Finance Association)AEDBF (Association Européenne pour le Droit Bancaire et Financier)
ABF (Avocats en Droit Boursier et Financier), IPFA (International Project Finance Association)

Highlights of deals and projects

Bert advised:

• the lenders on the USD 875,000,000 borrowing base facility to metals solutions group Traxys to finance the group's worldwide inventories and working capital;
• Vestas in connection with the supply, installation and commissioning of 72 V112-3.0 MW wind turbines, along with a 15-year service and maintenance agreement for the 216MW offshore wind farm on the Bank Zonder Naam off the Belgian coast;
• Citibank on the USD 670,000,000 facility and the USD 400,000,000 9.75% Second Lien Secured Notes due 2020 in connection with the acquisition by Apollo of global chemicals group Taminco;
• the European Investment Bank on bankability of DBFM structures and documentation used in Belgian projects market in the context of the "EU 2020 Project Bond Initiative".

 Citations and awards

Clifford Chance’s finance practice includes highly regarded figures in the ‘very bright and technically excellent’ Bert De Maeyer.

Legal 500 2012, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets

Clients are uniformly impressed by younger partner Bert De Maeyer, reporting that he is "very pragmatic and has excellent technical knowledge of financing matters.”

Chambers Europe 2012, Banking and Finance