CROSS-BORDER M&A – MANDATORY RULES IN BELGIUM
Non-Belgian parties and their counsel involved in cross-border M&A transactions often wish to use their home country model documents that typically provide... Read More
Crossing the Atlantic: Managing Impacts of COVID-19 and Its Influence on the International Business and Legal Landscape
As a member of TELFA, CEW & Partners has made a video on the impact of the Covid-19 on business in Europe... Read More
EU261 compensation in the context of Covid-19
One of the questions that airlines must now ask themselves is whether the compensation (“EU261 compensation”) provided for in Article 7 of... Read More
EU261: Charles Price and Sébastien Popijn wrote an article on the ECJ judgement in the case Germanwings GmbH v Wolfgang Pauels
Charles Price and Sébastien Popijn wrote an article on the ECJ judgement in the case Germanwings GmbH v Wolfgang Pauels (C-501/17) that has just been... Read More
Belgian UBO register – administration will apply a tolerance policy until 31 December 2019
The Belgian Law of 18 September 2017 (the “Law”) implementing the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive of May 2015 (the “4th AML Directive”)... Read More
Success for CEW & Partners in the CJEU case Moens v Ryanair (c-159/18)
Today, the CJEU delivered its ruling in the case Moens v Ryanair (c-159/18) in which Charles Price and Sébastien Popijn represented and assisted Ryanair.... Read More
Problems for the Brussels International Business Court
The draft bill setting-up the Brussels International Business Court, a proposed specialized English language court for international business disputes (see http://cew-law.be/brussels-international-business-court/), was... Read More
CJUE confirms that damage to an aircraft tyre by a screw lying on an airport runway is an extraordinary circumstance under Regulation (EC) No 261/2004
On 4 April 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJUE) handed down its judgment in Germanwings GmbH v Wolfgang... Read More
Aviation: Belgian Supreme Court confirms that under the Brussels I Regulation (Recast) the substantive validity of a choice of jurisdiction clause must be assessed under the law of the chosen Member State
On 8 February 2018, the Belgian Supreme Court (Court of Cassation) annulled a judgement of the Dutch speaking Commercial Court of Brussels... Read More
BELGIUM PREPARES FOR HARD BREXIT
Brexit is now only 56 days away. According to the Belgian Employers’ Federation there are some 25.000 companies in Belgium which trade... Read More