Emilie van de Walle de Ghelcke

Member of the Board of Directors

Appointed 2016

Ms. Emilie van de Walle de Ghelcke is a legal counsel at Sofina since September 2016.  Her practice covers domestic and cross-border M&A, corporate governance, corporate restructurings, corporate housekeeping, joint ventures and financial law advisory.  

From 2005 until 2016, she worked as a lawyer specialising in financial and company law. She was a member of the corporate and finance practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Brussels office from 2009 to 2016 where she advised Belgian and international clients on corporate law, real estate law and financial law matters in various sectors.

Ms van de Walle de Ghelcke was a member of the Brussels Bar between 2005 and 2016. She obtained a law degree from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and a Master in economic law from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium). She obtained an LLM degree from the London School of Economics (UK).

Ms van de Walle de Ghelcke was appointed director at Bekaert in May 2016.