Fields of expertise
With our many years of experience, we offer assistance and advice in any kind of commercial dispute your company may face in the course of its commercial activitities. While doing so, we always aim for an integrated approach while co-operating with your accountant, notary, environmental advisor,...
Read more1/ Issues with customers, suppliers, staff...
Sooner or later every company faces a dispute in which a former contracting party (be it customer, supplier, staff member or partner) fails to meet his or her obligations or holds the company responsible for an alleged failure to meet its obligations.
In first instance, if we are contacted in time to do so, we try to avoid any discussions in advance by drafting an agreement as clearly and bindingly as possible.
If a discussion with a customer/supplier/employee/partner does arise, we will try, in consultation with you, to resolve the dispute out of court, either by transfering the other party a letter of default in order to meet its obligations or by refuting the other party's claims in a motivated manner.
If a case does have to go to court, we take your defence to heart by putting our jointly determined position into writing while refering to the necessary legal grounds to justify it. At the hearing we will also explaining our point of view well prepared and orally in court.
2/ Real estate, rent and construction law
We can assist you in construction related disputes: we defend your interests during negotiations, during expert assessments and in court.
Furthermore, we can advise you in rent disputes: recovering rent related debts; claims for eviction; assistance with housing quality issues in a residential building..
Are you as an individual or company investing in real estae? We can advise you on property rights : easements, usufruct, leasehold, co-ownership, right of use or occupation, ...
3/ Guidance during acquisitions & counselling companies in difficulties
Are you ready to transfer your company to the next generation or to an external buyer, or on the contrary, do you see an opportunity to take over another company? Managing this proces requires a whole range of expertise in order to asssess all the risks and avoid traps: contract law, business law, banking and credit law, real estate law, labour law, environmental law, ... but also a thorough knowledge of the practice of the usual or possible clauses in your financing agreements and contracts with your suppliers (e.g. change of control clauses, ...) ..., a good dose of common sense and the feeling to bring a negotiation to a successful end and reconcile the conflicting interests of transferor and transferee. A balanced acquisition contract is the best guarantee of an acquisition without any unpleasant aftermath!
We can offer you this qualifed assistance based on our extensive experience in acquisitions and are supported by our long expertise with takeovers in an extreme situation: as a court mandate holder organising the 'voluntary' or 'forced' transfer under judicial authority in the context of a GRP (= judicial reorganisation procedure), as a liquidator of a bankrupt company in going concern, as a lawyer of a prospective buyer of a company in bankruptcy or in judicial reorganisation.
In doing so, we always indicate our limits to you and preferably work together with your accountant, auditor, notary, ... or our experienced foreign correspondents in the case of cross-border aspects.
Correspondents abroad
Over the years, we have developed a network of reliable correspondents within Europe with whom we can collaborate in confidence in order to assist our clients in disputes outside of Belgium and to make sure that their interests are properly represented in any procedure abroad.
These correspondents usually work in offices comparable to ours in terms of size and working methods so that our clients continue to experience the familiar service that they know.
To allow our foreign correspondents to handle your case in the best possible conditions, we usually communicate with our correspondent to ensure smooth communication and follow-up.
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