Lawyers in Belgium

Kim Van Herck

Kim Van Herck graduated from KU Leuven in 2008 as Master of Laws. During her education, she spent six months studying at the University of Orléans (France) within the context of the Erasmus programme. While still at the university, she already gained a first experience in the legal profession through summer internships in the departments Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions and Banking & Finance of some first-rate law firms. Driven by her passion for corporate law, she obtained her degree of Master in Corporate Law at the HU Brussels in 2009. In 2009, she started her career as a lawyer at the law firm Curia. In 2013, she participated in the creation of intui. Kim has extensive experience in providing legal assistance to a wide range of transactional cases, more in particular M&A and real estate transactions. Within that scope, she advises on drawing up investment, acquisition and shareholders’ agreements, or regarding the restructuring of companies and associations. She also offers advice on various aspects of corporate and association law and business law in general. She regularly speaks at seminars on various topics relating to corporate law, among which the reform resulting from the new Companies and Associations Code.

intui

Kimberley De Plucker

Counsel

Tiberghien

Kirian Claeyé

Partner

ALTIUS

Klaas Thibaut

Klaas Thibaut specializes in M&A (including PE), corporate and acquisition finance transactions, and complex commercial agreements, both cross-border and domestic. He also has significant expertise in data privacy.

Quinz

Koen De Maeyer

Senior Counsel

KPMG Law in Belgium

Koen Hoornaert

Partner

Van Olmen & Wynant

Koen Morbée

Partner

Tiberghien

Koen Panis

For more information, please click the following link: Koen Panis | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)

Loyens & Loeff

Koen T'Syen

Counsel Koen T'Syen specialises in commercial litigation and competition law. Koen has successfully represented clients before civil and administrative courts as well as in alternative dispute resolution procedures such as mediation. He also advises clients on a wide range of commercial matters including contract law, distribution law and unfair market practices. Koen has extensive experience in and knowledge of the life sciences and energy sectors, both at the Belgian and EU levels. In the field of competition law, Koen focuses on abuses of dominance and cartels. Koen was appointed as the National Reporter for Belgium at the 2016 Congress of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) in Geneva in view of his expertise in life sciences and competition law. He regularly writes articles on Belgian business law and competition law issues.

Van Bael & Bellis

Koen Van Duyse

Partner

Tiberghien

Koen Van Maldegem

I am a Partner in our Brussels office and I specialise in corporate law, competition law, public procurement law, labour-management relations and contract law.

Fieldfisher

Koen Van den Broeck

Partner in the Dispute Resolution team in Fieldfisher's Brussels office

Fieldfisher

Koen Vanhaerents

Koen Vanhaerents is a partner in corporate finance in the Brussels office. Koen joined Baker McKenzie in 1987. He advises Belgian and foreign clients on a wide range of corporate finance operations (both public and private) and complex corporate law issues. He is closely involved in numerous operations and take-overs on the Belgian capital markets, private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. From October 2009 to October 2014, Koen was a member of the Executive Committee of Baker McKenzie and Chairman of the EMEA Region of the Firm. From October 2014 to July 2020, he was Head of Global Capital Markets. Koen advises Belgian and foreign clients on a wide range of corporate finance operations (both public and private) and complex corporate law issues. He is also closely involved in numerous operations and takeovers on the Belgian capital markets, private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions.

Baker McKenzie BV/SRL

Koen de Puydt

Managing Partner

Andersen

Korneel Decroix

Partner

Eubelius

Kris De Schutter

For more information, please click the following link: Kris De Schutter | Loyens & Loeff (loyensloeff.com)

Loyens & Loeff

Kris Lemmens

Managing Partner

Scale

Kris Van Hove

Partner Kris Van Hove focuses on EU and national competition law, as well as regulatory law. He specialises in competition law, with particular expertise in cartels, merger control, dominant market positions, distribution and technology transfer. Kris also specialises in regulatory matters in the area of aviation law. Kris’s practice covers a wide variety of sectors, including car parts, aviation, consumer products, basic industries, steel, energy, chemicals, construction equipment, building materials, electronics, music, and information and communications technology. He handles notifications and investigations as well as litigation before the EU and national courts. Kris’s notable experience includes the appeal to the EU General Court which led to the annulment of the Commission CISAC decision. Kris has extensive experience in representing clients in cartel defence cases, including leniency and settlement proceedings and litigation. He led the team that assisted one of the parties in the Commission’s first-ever direct settlement case (DRAM). Since then, he has been involved in several other settlement procedures (such as automotive bearings) and standard procedures (such as smart card chips). Kris acted as counsel for Japan Airlines in the proceeding before the EU General Court which overturned the Commission 2010 Air Freight decision and annulled Japan Airlines’ €35.7 million fine. He was part of the team that received the Global Competition Review Matter of the Year award in 2016 for his involvement in the case, which also won the American Lawyer’s Global Dispute of the Year: International Litigation award for 2016. In 2017, Global Competition Review 100 noted Kris as one of “the firm’s lawyers [who] excel in European court appeals stemming from DG Comp decisions”. He was named as one of 20 of the world’s foremost competition practitioners by Who’s Who Legal for Competition – Thought Leaders for 2018 and again for 2019. According to Who’s Who Legal 2020: Kris “is highlighted as ‘an excellent competition lawyer who ranks among the best’.” And also in Chambers Global 2021, he is described as "an excellent competition lawyer" who "stays calm and makes the right judgement calls." He regularly lectures and writes on competition law matters.

Van Bael & Bellis

Kris Verdoodt

Kris is a Partner in Argo’s Corporate M&A practice group. He has years of experience and expertise in M&A, acting frequently for private equity firms. Kris is also regularly involved in the set-up of management incentive and participation schemes, joint venture structures, real estate M&A and fund structuring.

ARGO Law

Kris Wauters

Counsel Kris Wauters has been a lawyer since 1993 and specialises in public and administrative law. He became Counsel at Janson in 2012. He mainly deals with cases concerning economic public law (accreditations, mobility, state aid), public procurement, other government contracts (concessions, PPP,...), government liability, environmental law and energy law. Kris is professor at the Université catholique de Louvain since 2010, where he is a member of the public law sector and where he teaches various courses in administrative law, including public procurement law, energy law, public economic law and local authorities. Kris is also editor-in-chief of the only Belgian Review on public procurement and other government contracts (Marchés et contrats publics). He is moreover member of the Law Committee of het National Building Organisation giving advice on public procurement to the Federal Government. References Conducting the negotiation between a governmental institution and companies and reaching a settlement agreement Assisting companies before the council of state for a public contract signed with another tenderer and conducting the proceedings before the civil court to claim damages Advising and representing the Flemish government (roads and traffic agency) in a procedure introduced in extreme urgency by a tenderer to gain the suspension of the public contract Assisting a company in a claim for damages for a (annulled) law imposing a public burden for companies active in real estate Assisting the European Commission in a procedure of a tenderer for a claim of damages for a public contract Advising and representing the Flemish government (roads and traffic agency) in a procedure introduced by a tenderer to annul a public contract signed with another tenderer Providing advice to companies on litigation procedures and alternative solutions Assisting companies in negotiations with governmental institutions on PPP-contracts

Janson

Kristien Carbonez

Partner

Liedekerke

Kristin Verhaegen

Kristin Verhaegen is a partner at Quadrant Advocaten.

Quadrant

Kristof De Vulder

DLA Piper

Kristof Hectors

Partner

Scale