Le Bâtonnier de l’Ordre néerlandais du Barreau de Bruxelles a récemment interrogé la CTIF sur l’éventuel assujettissement d’un avocat qui agit, pour une personne protégée, via un m…
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This section of our M&A road book briefly describes the main sources and developments of financing of the majority of the Belgian M&…
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On 5 October 2017, the bill amending the Regulated Real Estate Companies Act of 12 May 2014 (“GVV-wet”) was approved by the Chamber of Repre…
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Door de wet van 11 augustus 2017 houdende invoeging van het boek XX, “Insolventie van ondernemingen”, in het Wetboek van economisch recht (WER) kent B…
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The newly-updated Buysse Code reviews the powers of the board of directors and the tasks that the chairman of the board of directors must assume in or…
Read MoreAmong other measures designed to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, the 4th Money Laundering Directive requires the EU member states to …
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Until recently, persons blowing the whistle on breaches of financial legislation were not protected under Belgian law. Consequently, the decision to r…
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In the Belgian legal order, there are few rules governing conflicts-of-interest between a company and its employees, independent service providers and…
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On 20 July 2017 the Council of Ministers approved a legislative proposal regarding a new Companies Code [1]. The current Companies Code was last revie…
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Yesterday, the House of Representatives has adopted a bill containing an entirely new Insolvency Code. As already indicated in our newsletter of …
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On 26 June 2017 the deadline has passed for the implementation of the European directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the …
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On 4 May 2017, the federal Parliament adopted a new law (Wet tot wijziging van diverse wetten met het oog op de aanvulling van de gerechtelijke ontbin…
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In view of this, Stibbe sets out and analyzes the five key changes of this Regulation Recast: (i) the scope of the legislation is broadened to cover p…
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Une troisième édition du Code Buysse (Code Buysse III) a été publiée en mai 2017. Ce Code n’a pas de valeur contraignante, mais il a l’ambition d…
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As from today, the Insolvency Regulation Recast (EU) 2015/848 will apply to insolvency proceedings commenced on or after this date. In …
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In a judgment dated 24 November 2016, the Court of Cassation ruled on the limitation of break costs that banks can claim in the case of early repaymen…
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On 31 March 2017, the Belgian Government approved a preliminary draft act aimed at transposing the provisions of the fourth European Anti-Money Launde…
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Le gouvernement a approuvé, le 31 mars 2017, un avant-projet de loi de transposition des dispositions de la quatrième directive européenne anti-blanch…
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A compter de ce 12 juin, des procédures de dissolution plus efficaces entrent en vigueur pour les sociétés fantômes, qui ne sont pas/plus actives et l…
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L’annulation d’un contrat, puisqu’elle est rétroactive, implique que les parties soient autant que faire se peut replacées dans la même situation que …
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Recently, the Belgian federal government introduced a new draft law on the reform of the Bankruptcy Act and the Law regarding the Continuity…
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