Corporate law

As a business, you probably run into complex questions where you need expert legal advice. On a day-to-day basis, our business lawyers can work with financial, tax, legal and risk management experts – both ours and yours own – to jointly tackle intriguing business issues from a multi-disciplinary angle. With broad insight into your challenges, we can offer you creative, tailor-made solutions throughout the corporate life cycle.

We can provide you services related to:

  • Company law: legal advice and hands-on assistance throughout a company's entire life cycle (due diligence, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, corporate governance and financing, etc.)
  • Commercial law: legal assistance in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts (sale/purchase agreements, distribution and licensing agreements, lease contracts), intellectual  property law, structuring of supply and distribution chain, trade practices and more.

Mergers and Acquisitions

In the M&A process, any responsible management will require a comprehensive assessment of the legal risks relating to the corporate status, assets, contracts, securities, intellectual property, and so on, of the target company.

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Corporate restructuring

Our corporate restructuring practice involves the following areas, both domestically and internationally:

  • Sale and acquisition transactions involving shares, assets, entire businesses and business lines
  • (Cross-border) mergers, (partial) divisions and transfers of businesses and branches of activity
  • Share buy-back schemes
  • Capital increases and reductions...

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Business contracts

Description of the Belgian customs context

The Legal team assists with day-to-day legal advice, and with the drafting and negotiation of all types of commercial contracts and policies, such as:

  • buy-sell
  • distribution contracts (such as agency, commissionnaire, franchise agreements)
  • contract and toll manufacturing agreements...

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Consumer regulations

Now if never before, coping with today's regulatory environment in the B2C market is a complex task that needs entrusting to legal specialists. Clients can get advice on how their sales and marketing strategies square up with the strict rules on unfair trading, consumer protection, consumer credit and product liability.

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Intellectual Property

Our expertise covers advisory services and contractual matters in relation to various intellectual property rights, over their entire life cycle.
As part of a multidisciplinary international network, we work with other PwC IP experts specialising in valuations, tax and transfer pricing. This enables us to help our clients with demanding IP challenges such as developing innovative IP licence or ownership structures.

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Real estate

The real estate market has many facets and changes continuously.
Professional real estate investors have diversified geographically at a global basis, and have also moved beyond classical real estate assets (such as offices and retail property) into alternative real estate investments such as elderly/nursing homes and infrastructure, producing long-term, indexed fixed income streams...

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Company Secretarial

Many companies need professional guidance and support to cope with ever-changing corporate compliance rules, regulations and best practice and thus ensure the company is compliant with its statutory obligations, and in time....

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