Our team is renowned for its comprehensive expertise in all areas of corporate litigation. This includes:
- Corporate governance and shareholders’ rights litigation
- Director liability claims
- Company expert investigations
- Securities litigation
- Pre- and post-acquisition claims
- Shareholder exclusion and/or exit claims
- ESG litigation
Our seasoned litigators are adept at preventing and handling a wide range of corporate conflicts, frequently representing both claimants and defendants. We advise shareholders, creditors, directors and companies alike.
Our team’s broad experience in complex corporate disputes and strong academic and policy credentials in the field of corporate law are well-recognized by the legal market. Our specialists are regularly asked to act as speakers and lecturers.
Noteworthy appointments include:
- acting for a Belgian listed company in several mediatized proceedings and investigations involving the company’s debt restructuring totalling more than EUR 2 billion
- defending several parties in a dispute around a Belgian listed company triggered by a group of disgruntled US shareholders requesting the annulment of a sale as well as USD 4 billion in damages
- assisting a minority shareholder of a Belgian industrial player in safeguarding its rights following a transaction that led to a multi-billion euro loss, ultimately leading to a settlement
- representing a multi-million-euro investment fund in a dispute concerning one of its founders
- advising one of Belgium’s largest investment funds in relation to several post-acquisition claims
- representing a leading Belgian bank before Belgian courts in one of the largest and most influential mass claim actions in recent times involving thousands of shareholders
