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Practice areas


Banking & Finance
 
  • Asset and acquisition finance
  • Capital markets
  • Financial services
  • General banking
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    johan.debruycker@altius.com
     
    Commercial
     
  • Commercial contracts relating to supply, agency, distribution, franchising, manufacture, research and development etc.
  • Advertising, commercial communications and unfair competition
  • Product liability and labelling
  • Trade practices and consumer protection
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    carmen.verdonck@altius.com and gerrit.vandendriessche@altius.com
     
    Competition Law
     
  • Advising on merger control and merger filings
  • Advising on the application of Belgian and EU antitrust rules
  • Filings and complaints
  • Litigation before Belgian courts
  • Drafting of compliance programs
  • Assistance during “dawn raids”
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    carmen.verdonck@altius.com
     
    Corporate
     
  • Mergers and acquisitions, divestitures
  • Joint ventures, shareholders’ arrangements, consortia and other corporate alliances
  • Management and leveraged buy-outs
  • Private equity
  • Company formation and investment
  • Corporate restructuring and reorganisations
  • Company secretarial services
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    carine.vanregenmortel@altius.com and alexis.goeminne@altius.com
     
    Employment
     
  • Day-to-day advice on all employment issues relating to the conduct of business in Belgium
  • Contracts and policies for employees
  • Termination of employment contracts
  • Collective disputes and industrial action; industrial relations
  • International employment situations
  • Stock option plans and other employee incentives
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    sylvie.dubois@altius.com
     
    Environment & Real Estate
     
  • Environmental permit systems: coverage and compliance
  • Pre- and post-acquisition environmental audits and advice
  • Soil clean-up issues, waste disposal, nuisance issues
  • Nature and landscape protection
  • Environmental liability
  • Town planning and zoning rules
  • Building and allotment permits
  • Real estate transactions and rights “in rem”
  • Pre-emption rights
  • Rules for the construction industry
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    william.timmermans@altius.com
     
    Information and Communication Technology
     
  • ICT agreements (software development/transfer/license, hardware, maintenance, support, escrow, ASP, SLA, web services, ICT consultancy etc.)
  • E-commerce
  • Data protection
  • Electronic communications
  • Digital signatures
  • Computer crime
  • ICT-related litigation
  • Entertainment and media law
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    gerrit.vandendriessche@altius.com
     
    Insolvency
     
  • Bankruptcy and other insolvency procedures
  • Restructuring
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    johan.debruycker@altius.com
     
    Intellectual property
     
  • Protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights
  • Services relating to patents, designs, trademarks and copyrights
  • Exploitation agreements including licenses, assignments, joint venture agreements and manufacturing and supply agreements
  • National and EC authorisation procedures
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    paul.maeyaert@altius.com and christophe.ronse@altius.com
     
    Life sciences
     
  • Intellectual property and data protection
  • Marketing of medicinal products
  • Pricing and reimbursement
  • Medical devices
  • Parapharmaceuticals
  • Cell & tissue engineered products
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    christophe.ronse@altius.com
     
    Litigation
     
  • All forms of litigation before the Belgian courts and the European Court of Justice (in Dutch as well as in French)
  • Arbitration
  • Enforcement of foreign judgements and arbitral awards.
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    christophe.ronse@altius.com and paul.maeyaert@altius.com
     
    Regulatory & Administrative Law
     
  • Permits and licenses in different industries
  • Public procurement and concessions
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Expropriation and public domain issues
  • Litigation before the Constitutional Court and the Council of State
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    william.timmermans@altius.com
     
    Sports Law
     
  • Competition law aspects
  • Protection and exploitation of intellectual property rights
  • Sponsorship agreements
  • Employment contracts
  •  
    carmen.verdonck@altius.com
     
    Taxation
    For all tax matters, ALTIUS works closely with Tiberghien. Please visit the Tiberghien web site for a description of our tax capabilities.
     
     
    http://www.tiberghien.com
     



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