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CMS has welcomed a new partner in its corporate and M&A practice in Brussels

CMS is pleased to announce that Philippe Hendrickx will join the Firm as a Partner as of 1 October 2024. Philippe specialises in corporate law, in particular mergers and acquisitio…

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Monard strengthens its Insolvency and Restructuring team

Monard law welcomes a new member to its Insolvency and Restructuring team. Jente Dengler has joined the firm as of October 1, 2024.

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Changement important concernant l’assujettissement à la loi anti-blanchiment des avocats qui ex…

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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06/12/24
Directors can be held personally liable

Zoals in het eerste gedeelte van onze artikelenreeks over de afschaffing va…

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18/10/24
Private Equity Side Letters – Harmless Paper or Silent Power…

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Each day we publish several articles written by legal and tax specialists from law firms, notaries offices, the legal departments from payroll agencies and tax consultants.

It is the perfect way for lawyers at the Bar, in-house counsel, barristers, solicitors, notaries, bailiffs, paralegals and any other legal professional with an interest in Belgian and European law to keep informed of new legislative initiatives, case law, legal doctrine and all other legal developments on the Belgian legal scene!

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The Accounting Directive’s transposition: the impact on Belgian corporate law

Although the deadline to transpose the Accounting Directive 2013/34/EU into Belgian law elapsed on 20 July 2015, the Belgian legislator failed to tran…

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Act introducing measures to restrict vulture fund activities

On 11 September the Belgian Act that introduces certain measures to restrict the activities of vulture funds (the “Act”) was published in the Belgian …

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Qualification of a contract as an insurance contract: the position of the FSMA

The FSMA, whose responsibilities include supervision of the insurance sector, recently reiterated the essential elements of an insurance contract. An …

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New circular letter confirms income tax neutrality of AIFM Law

The Belgian tax administration has just published a new circular letter pertaining to the income tax treatment of investment companies. The circular l…

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Dissolution of companies, public order and abuse of rights

Two recent judgments of the Belgian Supreme Court contain important clarifications concerning the mechanism of the dissolution of companies with insuf…

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Belgian Listed Companies Dashboard - issue n°2

This is the second issue of our dashboard for Belgian listed companies, which covers the first half of 2015. NautaDutilh is pleased to provide Belgian…

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Belgian laws on Consumer Credit and Residential Mortgage Credit – recent changes

In recent years, the Belgian Parliament has codified substantial parts of Belgian economic legislation into a new Code of Economic Law. This …

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Tenants in distress

Belgian Insolvency law mainly consists of two separate regimes: bankruptcy (Belgian Bankruptcy Act of 8 August 1997) and judicial reorganisation (Belg…

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The Securities Litigation Review

The sources of Belgian securities law are relatively widespread. These sources include several federal acts and royal decrees, as well as specific reg…

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New Royal Decree related to the obligation to declare foreign bank accounts

A Royal Decree of 3 April 2015 (published on 13 April) lays down the rules for taxpayers that are required to declare foreign bank accounts in their i…

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Recast insolvency regulation adopted: new rules on cross-border insolvencies in Europe

On 20 May 2015, after a three-year legislative process, a recast version of the European Insolvency Regulation (EIR) was adopted. For the most part, i…

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Trade controls and M&A: how to preserve the value of your transaction?

The substantial risk associated with the expansion and enhanced enforcement of trade controls has a direct impact on due diligence in cross-border M&a…

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Waste-sorting obligation for Walloon enterprises

On 5 March 2015, the Walloon Government adopted an Executive Act (published in the Belgian Gazette on 16 March 2015), which obliges enterprises to sor…

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Financial assistance- de facto, still prohibited?

Financial assistance (in the context of a company acquisition) has, in principle, been allowed since 2009. However, some conditions provided by the la…

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Opletten met vragen om prijsverantwoording bij overheidsopdrachten: Voorzichtig zijn is riskant, dubbel voorzi…

Tot voor kort nam de Raad van State - terecht - aan dat er geen verplichting bestaat om offertes met abnormale eenheidsprijzen onregelmatig te verklar…

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Planification financière

Le 1er novembre 2014, est entrée en vigueur une nouvelle réglementation destinée à régir l'activité de planification financière. L'objectif de cette r…

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Judicial reorganization – Accounting review – Annexes to the petition

In order to secure the protection of judicial reorganization, the debtor needs to attach to the petition for judicial reorganization a certain number …

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Towards a lifelong sentence of exercising a director’s mandate?

In a judgment of 27 June 2014, published in December 2014, the Supreme Court specified the extent to which the mandate of a director should be pursued…

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Post-resignation liability of directors

Imagine: a few years ago, you were a director of a company. Because of differences of opinion about the policy being implemented, you resigned. T…

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Continuïteit van de ondernemingen : het minnelijk akkoord onderworpen aan homologatie door de rechtbank ?

Volgens de Wet van 31 januari 2009 betreffende de continuïteit van de ondernemingen (WCO) kan de debiteur twee types van minnelijk akkoord afsluiten1 …

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