Practice areas
Fields of law
Regulatory
- Bilateral Agreements
- Pilot licences
- EASA rules and regulations
- EU-ETS
- Operating licenses and AOC
Finance and fleet
- Aircraft finance
- Operating leases
- Charter agreements
- Maintenance and operating agreements and PBH agreements
- Purchase and sale agreements
- Insurance
Litigation
- Regulatory issues
- Accidents and incidents
- Alternative financing
- AML/TF
- Asset based financing (focus aircraft financing)
- Bank guarantees
- Bond issues
- Collateral contracts and structuring
- Consumer protection
- Credit facilities
- Crowdfunding
- Crowdfunding platforms
- E-money
- Finch (blockchain, apps, cryptocurrencies)
- Financial litigation
- Financial services
- Funds
- General terms and conditions
- Investment services
- Investment funds
- Licensing obligations
- Loans
- MAD
- PSD
- Regulatory compliance
- Private equity
- SME financing
- Sustainable investments
- Trading venues
- Wealth management
- Wholesale trading
- Circular economy
- Commercial agency[RF1]
- Commercial litigation and arbitration
- Commercial partnership agreements[RF2]
- Contracting[CD3]
- Debt collection
- Distribution contracts
- Franchise[RF4]
- General and specific terms and conditions
- Import and Export
- International Sales Contract
- Commercial litigation
- Sale/supply/manufacturing/purchase contracts
- Sharing economy
- Service Contracts
- Bank Guarantees
- Mortgages
- Personal guarantees
- Pledge Agreements ((aircraft pledges, receivable pledges, floating charges, account pledges etc)
- Sett-off
- Transfer of securities as security
- Class action
- Consumer information
- Digital content and services
- Litigation and alternative dispute settlement
- Market practices
- Sale by distance means of communication
- Sale of consumer goods
- Unfair contract terms
- Arbitration clauses
- Asset purchase contract
- B2B contract unfair contract terms
- B2C unfair contract terms
- Contractual liability
- Cooperation contracts
- Dispute settlement clauses
- Distribution contracts
- General terms and conditions
- License agreements
- Mandate Agreements
- NDA
- Sale/purchase agreement
- Share Purchase contract
- Shareholders agreements
- Articles of association
- Capital increase / decrease
- Corporate housekeeping
- Corporate litigation
- Daily functioning
- Directors liability
- Dispute resolution
- Governance
- Incoporation
- M&A
- Management agreements
- Non profit organisations
- Reorganisation
- Shareholders conflicts
- Shareholders agreements
- Share pledges
- SPA
- Start-up structuring
- Abuse of economic dependency
- Abuse of dominant position
- Unfair competition
- Private enforcement of competition law (stand-alone, follow-on actions)
- Class actions
- Litigation and arbitration
- Block chain applications
- Cybersecurity
- E-commerce terms
- Energy transition
- ICT contracts
- Online dispute resolution
- Platforms
- Privacy policy
- Smart contracts
- Terms of use website
- Setting up a fully compliant Webshop screening (for B2C and/ B2B)
Recognized specific and longstanding expertise in wholesale energy transactions and in particular related to:
- EU wide market coupling (day-ahaed market coupling mechanisms, intraday continuous market coupling mechanisms and intraday auction mechanisms)
- organization and functioning of exchanges and (market)platforms,
- rules regarding market integrity (REMIT, insider trading and market abuses),
- digital transition: smart and digital / AI, cloud computing services, internet of things (IoT) for the energy market (in particular in the context of the energy transition), SAAs, data exchange platforms;
- renewables: optimisation of balancing costs related to renewables / portofolio management (including by use of AI)
- product qualification;
- supply & production: licences/regulatory requirements, PPAs
- energy community regulation and set up
- hydrogen supply & markets
- trading: trading contracts, trading facilities, regulatory compliance
- Cooperation agreements and corporate set up between practicioners
- Cooperation agreements between practicions and hospitals
- Patients rights
- Regulatory questions
- Tort / liability proceedings in case of medical errors
Bankruptcy proceedings
Filing for bankruptcy
Insolvency litigation
Privileges
Reorganization and continuity
Securitiues
Voluntary liquidation
Copyrights and neighboring rights
Cybersecurity
Data protection (GDPR)
Designs
Digital services
IT contracts
Patents
Product liability
Telecommunications law
Trademarks
Unfair competition law
- Advertising
- Cease and desist
- Fair trade practices
- Greenwashing
- Information obligations
- Joint offer
- Pricing / price communication
- Sales promotion
- Contractual liability
- Directors liabilities and D&O insurance
- Liability of defective products
- Liability for medical errors
- Personal injury liabilities
- Professional liabilities and insurance cover
- Public bodies’ liabilities
- Tort law (general)
- Insurance law, including regulatory and life insurance
Sectors
We have more than 30 years of experience in the aviation sector and our practice is widely recognised as a leading practice.
Besides assisting airlines, we also assist leasing companies, financial institutions, corporate jet owners, pilots and manufacturers. As a result we have a very strong sector knowledge.
Whilst we have a specific focus on all fleet matters, such as aircraft finance and leasing, purchase and sales of aircraft and aircraft parts, maintenance and operating contracts, we have also assisted our clients on regulatory matters, for example pilot licenses, airworthiness issues.
We have also assisted our clients with aircraft seizures, insolvency issues accidents and incidents and other disputes.
Our energy teams is best known for:
- A strong network with other renown legal experts that combine expertise of particular relevance to the energy sector (competition aw, administrative law, fiscal law)
- Its in depth knowledge of the energy sector (more then 10 years of sector experience);
- Recognized specific and longstanding expertise in wholesale energy transactions and in particular related to:
- EU wide market coupling (day-ahaed market coupling mechanisms, intraday continuous market coupling mechanisms and intraday auction mechanisms)
- organization and functioning of exchanges and (market)platforms,
- rules regarding market integrity (REMIT, insider trading and market abuses),
- digital transition: smart and digital / AI, cloud computing services, internet of things (IoT) for the energy market (in particular in the context of the energy transition), SAAs, data exchange platforms;
- renewables: optimisation of balancing costs related to renewables / portofolio management (including by use of AI)
- product qualification;
- supply & production: licences/regulatory requirements, PPAs
- energy community regulation and set up
- hydrogen supply & markets
- trading: trading contracts, trading facilities, regulatory compliance
The financial and banking sector is facing new challenges as a result amongst others of the digital transition. New actors are active in the sector, new services are provided and the regulatory framework is evolving to take into account these trends.
With our longstanding knowledge of the sector (more then 10 years) and the specific aims of its regulatory framework and our agility to rapidly understand the technicality of the activity and the regulations, we are able to guide your transactions, projects and disputes.
We assist different type of financial market players of the sector ranging from (EU) financial institutions to (fintech) startups, leasing companies or we assist business in their relation to financial institutions.
We have a special niche in asset based financing such as aircraft, ship, rail financing for which we are recognised as leading practitioners and factoring.
Our team offers a unique combination between specific health law expertise and general business and finance law expertise.
This allows us to offer hands on legal support for transactions and litigations in relation to specific health law issues but also broader support for legal entities activite in the health sector.
At the same time we also offer legal support to natural persons that are confronted with health law related legal questions or issues.
Focus Points
With a view to have an open eye on the future, we follow up on specific (legal) topics at the heart of modern businesses in transition.