CMS Derks Star Busmann Hanotiau is to lose its Belgian name partners when the firm’s Brussels-based arbitration and litigation team leaves to set up a new practice in the autumn. Highly-rated international arbitrator Bernard Hanotiau is leaving to join Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer partner Albert Jan van den Berg, who will relocate from Amsterdam to Brussels […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has launched a corporate practice from its Belgian office following the hire of two new partners.`The hires are part of BLP’s strategy to add a Belgian and cross-border corporate and technology capability to its EC practice, which was brought to the merger by Berwin Leighton.`Jean-Pierre Brusseleers was a partner at Derks […]
Plans by the Belgian government to make all non-Belgian EU law firms VAT-exempt have been temporarily abandoned following a successful lobbying campaign. The ruling would have meant that while the law firms did not have to charge their clients VAT on their services, they would have to absorb any VAT costs on overheads.`The Belgian tax […]
Although the last few months have seen the emphasis shift at the European Commission towards an attempt to tackle economic issues and crisis manage the dramatic situation for farmers, competition commissioner Mario Monti has nevertheless steered a steady course. Indeed, he appears to be having a decisive influence in areas not strictly in his remit […]
While more UK firms open offices in The Netherlands, the Belgian market has failed to attract the big City firms looking at further European expansion. The Lawyer reports on how the City is now looking beyond Brussels There may be Benelux firms, but there is no such thing as a uniform Benelux culture – at […]
Ernst & Young’s three associated law firms in Holland are to merge, creating a top five Dutch practice. The firms, Van Gijzen Advocaten, Banning Van Kemenade & Holland and Van Benthem & Keulen, will become a single firm on 1 September. The new firm, to be called Holland CS, will have more than 175 lawyers […]
UK TRAINEES will be eligible to take up a five-month seat in Brussels through a new placement scheme which is being organised by the Law Societies of England and Wales and Scotland. Trainees who are interested in pursuing a career in the international arena will move over for a secondment with the Law Societies’ joint […]
IN-HOUSE lawyers in the Netherlands will be invited to join the local Bar for the first time in the history of the profession after negotiations between the government and the Bar resulted in the drafting of new rules. Bar president Tom de Waard said the compromise had been reached earlier this month after the Bar […]
FORMER SJ Berwin & Co partner Len Hawkes has joined the Brussels office of US firm LeBoeuf Lamb Green & McRae only months after quitting as Berwin’s resident partner in the city. Hawkes, who started with LeBoeufs on 3 January, left the three-lawyer SJ Berwin office in Brussels at the end of September. Neither he […]
No FIRM Total lawyers PTrs Other Lawyers OVERSEAS OFFICES 1 Nauta Dutilh 260 123 237 Belgium, France, Spain, US, Malaysia Luxembourg, Spain, France 2 Loeff Claeys Verbeke 216 66 150 Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, US, Belgium, 3 De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek 210 70 140 US, UK, Belgium 4 Stibbe Simont Monahan Duhot 180 40 140 Belgium, […]