Lawyers in Belgium

Alexei Loubkine

Partner

Van Olmen & Wynant

Alexia Faes

Alexia Faes is Counsel in the Real Estate department at Simont Braun, with 10 years of experience. She has developed extensive expertise in real estate and construction law, with a particular focus on property rights, leases and public procurement. Her practice includes advising and representing both (inter)national clients—such as public authorities, real estate developers, construction companies, architects, and engineering firms—in a broad range of complex and often technical disputes. Since 2022, Alexia has been an accredited mediator in civil and commercial matters by the Federal Mediation Commission. She is an active member of the Special Construction Commission and takes part in several initiatives promoting alternative dispute resolution, including the “Chambre de règlement amiable (CRA)” of the Tribunal de l’Entreprise francophone de Bruxelles and the bMediation platform. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Belgian Construction Law Association. Alexia obtained her Master of Laws from Ghent University in 2014, during which she spent a year at Università degli studi Roma Tre (Italy) through the Erasmus exchange programme. She later completed a postgraduate degree in Real Estate at KU Leuven, as well as an additional diploma in Management from ICHEC Brussels Management School.

Simont Braun

Alexis Ceuterick

Alexis Ceuterick is a specialist in employment law and social security, renowned for delivering innovative and pragmatic solutions to clients across a wide range of personnel-related legal challenges, from onboarding to offboarding employees. He advises both Belgian and international companies, with a particular focus on employment and social security law aspects of compensation packages and structuring self-employment arrangements, including consultancy and management agreements. Alexis frequently negotiates with unions on matters such as compensation, working time and collective dismissals. Additionally, Alexis provides expert advice on the employment, social security, and pension implications of corporate restructurings, including mergers, acquisitions, and cross-border employee transfers. With extensive experience advising corporate clients in the financial sector, Alexis is well-versed in addressing industry-specific compensation and benefits issues. In addition to his legal practice, Alexis is a sought-after speaker at seminars and webinars and a (co-)author of several legal publications.

Simont Braun

Alexis Fierens

DLA Piper

Alexis Terray

Partner - Private Equity

Winston Taylor

Alice Portnoy

Alice draws upon her experience in the data & technology and media & entertainment sectors to help clients with their most complex data privacy issues. Alice focuses her practice on technology and data privacy matters with experience counseling national and international companies across the media and entertainment, pharma, scientific research, education, nonprofit, and food and retail sectors. Alice is a Certified Information Privacy Professional, Europe (CIPP/E).

Alston & Bird LLP

Alix Degrez

Senior Associate

EY Law

Amandine Baltus

Counsel

Tiberghien

Amber Cockx

Amber joined Quinz in 2019 as an associate specializing in corporate law in the life sciences sector. Amber provides assistance to life sciences companies on regulatory and transactional matters (R&D, clinical trials, early access, supply chain, commercial distribution). She recently authored the ICLG Belgian Chapter on Digital Health Laws and Regulations (https://iclg.com/practice-areas/digital-health-laws-and-regulations/belgium). She is a member of the Brussels bar.

Quinz

An Weyn

Partner

Arteo

An-Sofie Van Hootegem

Partner

Linklaters

Anastasia Vernikou

Associate

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Anastasios Tomtsis

Anastasios Tomtsis advises major companies from a wide range of industries on global antitrust and EU law. He has particular expertise in EU and multi-jurisdictional merger control, and in state aid control.

Clifford Chance

Anaïs GUILLERME

Partner

DALDEWOLF

Andreas Reindl

Partner Andreas Reindl focuses on European competition law. In particular, he has significant experience advising clients in the energy, transport, pharmaceutical, high-tech and other sectors on the full range of EU competition law issues. He has worked on high profile merger investigations initiated by the European Commission and national competition authorities, including the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt). Andreas has represented several clients in abuse of dominance investigations. He also advises companies holding a dominant market position on how to avoid abusive behaviour (such as through pricing and rebate policies). Andreas has broad experience advising clients on online distribution, licensing, and other collaboration agreements. He also prepares compliance programmes and assists companies with their implementation.

Van Bael & Bellis

Andreas Van Impe

Counsel

Linklaters

Andris Rimsa

Andris Rimsa is an antitrust and competition partner in the Brussels office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Andris advises clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious antitrust matters and merger control in an international context, with a focus on EU competition law and regulation.

Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

Andrzej Kmiecik

Partner Andrzej Kmiecik focuses on competition law, with particular expertise in merger control, cartels, dominance, distribution, pricing, intellectual property and State aid. He represents clients before the European Commission, the EU Courts and in national competition law proceedings. Andrzej’s practice covers a wide range of industries, including the automotive sector, pharmaceuticals, paper and board products, office equipment, consumer electronics, aerospace, shipping, petrochemicals, clothing and footwear, and financial infrastructure. Some of the high profile EU merger control cases he has handled include: Boeing/McDonnell Douglas; Enso/Stora; Boeing/Hughes; Caemi/Mitsui/CVRD; Boeing/Lockheed/ULA; SABIC/Huntsman; SABIC/GE Plastics; DFDS/CRO Ports/Älvsborg; and Canon/IRIS (Art. 22 referral). His experience in EU cartel investigations includes acting as defence counsel in: Newsprint; Amino Acids (also on appeal); Carbonless Paper (also on appeal); Publication Papers; Fine Papers; and Car Parts. Andrzej has also successfully defended clients against complaints of exclusionary conduct before the European Commission, including Canon (ink jet consumables) and Honda (racing engine technology). His experience extends to acting as counsel in major EU antitrust investigations involving the life sciences sector, including: Becton Dickinson/Novo Nordisk (diabetes care); Lederle/SKB (vaccines) and Chiron/DRK (blood screening). He was actively involved in the Commission’s pharmaceutical sector inquiry. He has also developed a niche practice in the field of motor vehicle distribution. He counsels and defends a number of manufacturers, combining extensive experience with in-depth industry knowledge. He regularly lectures and writes on competition law matters.

Van Bael & Bellis

Angela Nowosad

Senior Counsel

EY Law

Angela Russo

Winston Taylor

Angela Smedley

Winston Taylor

Anna Dias

DLA Piper

Anna Kovaleva

DLA Piper

Annabelle Bruyndonckx

With over 25 years of experience in advising clients in the Healthcare & Life Sciences industries, Annabelle Bruyndonckx is recognised as one of the leading sector lawyers in Belgium. Strongly focused on Medtech and the digitalisation of (consumer) healthcare, Annabelle assists international pharmaceutical and biotech companies and global medical device manufacturers, as well as food supplements and cosmetic businesses. As litigation specialist and regulatory expert, her practice at Simmons & Simmons LLP covers all parts of regulated products’ life cycle from R&D to marketing authorisation/CE marking, qualification issues, pricing and reimbursement, manufacture and distribution, public procurement, advertising, compliance, and product liability. Annabelle heads the Regulatory Affairs Education Group & is a board member of Healixia, the Belgian community of professionals involved in the lifecycle of medicines, medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and other health-related products. She is a regular speaker at international Healthcare and Life Sciences conferences.

Simmons & Simmons