International Women’s Day at Simont Braun
As a founding member of the Legal Diversity & Inclusion Alliance, Simont Braun celebrated the International Women’s Day by quizzing its lawyers on women’s achievements across centuries. Did you know that women were not allowed to become lawyers in Belgium until 1922? And that both the circular saw and wipers were invented by women?
Students Open Office Day at Simont Braun
Last Thursday, we were delighted to welcome law students willing to discover what it is like to be a lawyer at Simont Braun. A great moment and an opportunity to meet interesting persons from diverse horizons. Did you miss it and would like to apply? Send your CV to career@simontbraun.eu
Simont Braun secures major victory for Wolu TV against Telenet
Simont Braun (Emmanuel Cornu and Thomas Derval) secured an important victory for Wolu TV ASBL against Telenet. Our lawyers successfully represented the association before the Brussels Business Court in a compensation claim brought by the telecom company. Read more in an article by Nicolas Keszei published yesterday in L’Echo.
Simont Braun is a proud founding member of the Legal Diversity & Inclusion Alliance
Simont Braun is pleased to be one of the 36 co-founding members of the Legal Diversity & Inclusion Alliance (LDIA). By joining #LDIA, member firms commit to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, exchange good practices, and raise awareness of non-discrimination and diversity issues. The LDIA Charter was signed last week at the kick-off […]
Our Digital Finance Team attends Paris FinTech Forum 2019
Simont Braun’s Digital Finance Team, Catherine Houssa, Philippe De Prez, Thomas Derval & Lucien Standaert, staying on top of the latest FinTech trends at Paris Fintech Forum.
Le droit du procès civil – Colloque et parution du Volume 2
Le colloque « Le droit du procès civil – Etat actuel et analyse des réformes à venir » a attiré plus de 300 participants ce lundi 28 janvier à l’ULB. Les interventions de Fanny Laune et de Marc Baetens-Spetschinsky sont disponibles ici : La déformalisation de l’acte juridictionnel et le régime des nullités par Fanny Laune Incertitude concernant les conditions de recevabilité […]
Two Partners appointed in the Industrial property Section of the Council for Intellectual Property
The FPS Economy has just appointed, for their legal expertise, Fernand de Visscher as President and Emmanuel Cornu as a member of the Industrial Property section of the Council for Intellectual Property. The Council for Intellectual Property is an advisory body made up of experts and representatives of various sectors concerned with the intellectual property. Its main mission is […]
Philippe De Prez is promoted to Partner in Banking & Digital Finance
UBO Register – Sandrine Hirsch speaks at ABF seminar
On Tuesday 23 October, Sandrine Hirsch, Partner in our Corporate M&A department, gave a lecture on the obligations related to the new UBO Register at a workshop organised by the association “Avocats en droit boursier et financier/Advocaten in het beurs- en financieel recht”, in the presence of Mrs Annika Agemans from the SPF Finances/FOD Financiën. Sandrine’s […]
A step forward for the draft new Companies and Associations Code
On 25 May 2018, the Council of Ministers approved the draft new Companies and Associations Code which aims at modernising the regime applicable to companies and associations. The draft Code will now be submitted to the Federal Parliament for discussion and vote. We expect parliamentary approval in the autumn of this year. One of the […]
Seminar on the upcoming reform of the Belgian Law of Obligations
Last week, Simont Braun was delighted to see such an interest in the upcoming reform of the Belgian law of obligations, which is currently being analysed by the Council of State. On 22 and 24 May, we hosted two seminars on this subject, where Rafaël Jafferali, who is a member of the expert group in […]
Discover our Digital Finance Team – Finalist of ‘Prix de l’Innovation’
Discover – or rediscover – our Digital Finance team in this short video that we presented as a finalist of “Prix de l’Innovation” organised by Incubateur Avocats.be. We warmly thank our client Xavier Lahoureux (mozzeno) for his contribution! For more information, visit our webpage dedicated to the Digital Finance team