Our areas of practice
Our services are offered to you in French, Dutch, English and German. We maintain and develop close relations with various Belgian and foreign law firms, enabling us to offer quick, competent services in both Belgian and European law.
In particular, we generally deal with cases in the legal areas set out in the following.
In order to assure our clients a competent, rapid service-provision, the firm does not currently deal in other highly specialised areas of the law such as tax law or environmental law. Where a case entrusted to us wholly or partly entails a link with such areas, we consult with the client as to whether the case should be passed to a specialist attorney with whom we maintain preferred relations.
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1. Company law and the law of associations
Many of our clients are commercial companies, social purpose companies, non-profit associations and international organisations.
We provide legal assistance, counsel and dispute resolution services over the entire course of the company or association’s lifetime:
- company or partnership formations;
- the functioning of companies and partnerships;
- corporate housekeeping;
- negotiating and drafting corporate contracts such as shareholders’ agreements or share transfer agreements;
- negotiations in relation to acquisitions;
- directors’ liability;
- disputes amongst shareholders;
- and so forth.
We also possess particular expertise in the provisional winding-up and liquidation of non-profit associations and other civil law legal persons.
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2. Contracts
We regularly intervene in the drafting and follow-up of complex agreements requiring particular experience and expertise. Our skills extend to a variety of legal domains, each with their own specific peculiarities, such as industry, construction (public and private sectors), the pharmaceuticals sector, the audio-visual sector, the world of advertising and the informatics sector.
We assist our clients throughout the entire contractual process and in particular in relation to difficulties that they may encounter during performance of the agreement by proposing suitable preventive and curative measures.
We assure defence of the interests of our clients in the context of the various sorts of proceedings that may arise in relation to their contracts (payment problems, accidents, loss-assessors’ procedures, etc.).
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3. General mercantile law
Mercantile law forms an important part of our practice. We intervene in various areas in terms of giving advice and settling disputes, including:
- commercial practices (unfair competition, strike calls, etc.);
- the distribution sector: concession agreements, agency agreements and franchises;
- standard terms and conditions;
- debt recovery;
- disputes in relation to the carriage of goods and persons;
- and so forth.
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4. Labour law
Labour law, both individual and collective, is one of our preferred areas and is one of our oldest specialisms.
The following matters come up particularly frequently:
- negotiation and preparation of employment contracts;
- negotiating the procedures for terminating employment contracts;
- individual dismissals and collective lay-offs;
- workers’ bodies (works councils, health and safety committees, union chapters);
- works regulations;
- labour reorganisations;
- and so forth.
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| 5. Property law
We have a particularly active practice in this area, which deals with:
- inheritance planning and the liquidation and distribution of estates;
- preparing pre-nuptial agreements, winding-up and distribution of matrimonial property arrangements;
- property management, especially for wards of court and other incapacitated persons
- the negotiation and drafting of, and handling of disputes in relation to, civil law agreements: leases, agency, sale;
- and so forth.
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| 6. Real estate law
We deal with a variety of cases in the field of real estate, both in an advisory capacity and in relation to dispute-resolution:
- construction law;
- public tenders;
- landlord and tenant;
- building contractors;
- real estate development;
- joint and common ownership;
- and so forth.
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| 7. Third-party liability and insurance law
There are few areas of the law that do not at some time or another fall within the scope of insurance law or the principles of third-party liability. We have expertise in this respect in the following areas:
- “classic” third-party liability and the assessment of personal injuries;
- product liability;
- road traffic accidents;
- medical negligence;
- regulation of life assurance policies;
- actual insurance law: fire insurance; liability insurance; operator’s T/P liability, post-supply T/P liability, all site-risks policies; hauliers’ insurance, reinsurance, monitoring standards.
- and so forth.
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8. Healthcare law
The legal assistance we have provided to our clients involved in the medical sector has developed our expertise in the following areas of the law:
- pharmaceutical law;
- medical and para-medical institutions;
- ethical aspects in the medical world;
- and so forth.
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