Koen Vanhaerents has been with Baker & McKenzie since 1987, making partner in 1994. He is a member of its Global Executive Committee and chairman of its Regional Council. He is also head of the Corporate Finance Practice Group in Belgium and sits on the steering committees of the European Venture Capital Group and the Global Securities Practice Group. For three years between 2005 and 2008, Vanhaerents chaired the company’s Policy Committee. For nine years between 2000 and 2009, he was managing partner of the company’s Belgium offices. Currently, Vanhaerents counsels Belgian and foreign clients on various public and private corporate finance operations as well as complicated corporate law issues. He is chairman of the Belgian corporate finance practice group, and has participated in various operations and take-overs on the Belgian capital markets; private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions.