Linklaters

International and domestic clients in Belgium require high quality and multi-jurisdictional legal advice. Linklaters is uniquely placed to meet these requirements.

Our Belgian offices advise a broad range of corporate and financial clients on their most complex transactions and legal issues and are recognised for their market leading position and innovative approach.

Linklaters is pre-eminent in Belgium for corporate/M&A transactions, including public takeovers, joint ventures, restructurings, disposals and private equity. The Brussels and Antwerp offices have advised on many of the country’s largest M&A and privatisation deals and have been involved in most of the largest IPOs in recent Belgian history.

The expertise of Linklaters’ finance team in Brussels is widely recognised. Clients seek the firm’s advice on transactions including cross-border securities transactions, large acquisition finance deals, debt and equity-linked capital markets matters and complex securitisations. Our local finance team work on important cross-border deals as well as on Belgium’s largest asset finance transactions.

Our local tax specialists work closely with the Corporate and Finance teams and assist large multinational corporations with their most complex tax restructuring projects and tax issues. Our Belgian tax practice is also renowned for its innovative work in areas such as international tax planning.

The Belgian offices play a leading role in the country’s largest real estate projects. Our local real estate practice includes specialist lawyers in construction and planning, environment, public law, PPP and project finance. They are well versed in cross practice projects and often involved in cross border deals.

Our technology, media and telecommunications and intellectual property lawyers form a highly focused team of specialists in Belgium servicing companies around the globe. The Brussels based team takes care of local as well as international projects related to, among others, data protection, outsourcing, patents and trademarks.

The Belgian employment team plays a market leading role in its practice area, while providing our corporate team with the best in class support. Our local employment lawyers have an expert knowledge of pensions, employee incentives and collective dismissals, and are advising on most major restructuring deals.

Linklaters’ litigation, arbitration and regulatory specialists in Belgium also handle the most sensitive and complex cases for major local and international clients in a wide variety of industries. The Brussels litigation practice is spearheading Linklaters’ international arbitration efforts and is at the forefront of our global ADR work.

The Brussels office is at the hub of Linklaters’ global competition/antitrust practice. Clients rely on Linklaters to steer them through national competition law procedures in all EU countries and globally. The firm has a proven track record of advocacy before the European Commission, the Court of First Instance, the European Court of Justice and national courts.