Practice areas

• Commercial contracts
• Distribution (franchise, resale, agency)
• Company law
• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
• Restructuring and insolvency
• ADR - Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Civil and commercial litigation
• Communications law (ICT)
• Copyright law
• Design rights
• Patent law
• Trade mark law
• Biotechnology
• Real estate

Competences

• Commercial Retail
• Commercial Contracts and Economic Regulations
• Banking
• Insurance and Liability
• IT, Telecommunications and Media Law
• Industrial and Commercial Intellectual Property
• Litigation in Belgian Jurisdictions
• Real Estate

Education

• License in Law (UCL Louvain, 1986)
• Kings College, London (Centre of Medical Law and Ethics, 1987)

Career

• Admitted to the Bar of Mons (Belgium) in 1987
• Professor at the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons and the Institut Cardijn (Belgium), 1989

Memberships

• The European Society for Banking and Financial Law
• European Association of Lawyers
• Lawrope

Languages

• French
• English