2007 : Tmt - Technology, Media & Telecommunication Law Firm Of The Year
2008 : Ip & It Law Firm Of The Year
2009 : Ip, It & Tmt Law Firm Of The Year
2010 : Managing Partner : Carine Van Regenmortel
2011 : Corporate Firm
Description :
ALTIUS is one of the largest independent law firms in Belgium.
We provide a broad range of legal services to multinational companies and financial institutions in various industry sectors on international and Belgian transactions, as well as acting as the day-to-day counsel for Belgian companies and Belgian subsidiaries of many multinationals.
ALTIUS Partners, Johan De Bruycker, hoofd van het team bankrecht en financieel recht, en Lieven Peeters, hoofd van het team vastgoedrecht, hebben de ILO Client Choice Award gewonnen.
ALTIUS has rethought the objective of its employment law team and welcomes Philippe De Wulf as a new Partner on 1 October 2011, in what is now called the "3D Employment Team".
Brussels, 28 July 2011 - Philippe Vlaemminck joined the ALTIUS Partnership on 1 July 2011, where he will head the EU Regulatory and Trade practice group.
At the launch of the 2011 REALTY real-estate trade fair, ALTIUS and Tiberghien publish a new issue of the well-known Real Estate Gazette. This initiative is evidence of the two firms' operational co-operation and joint real-estate expertise.
As of 1 January 2012, shareholders of listed companies will obtain more rights as a consequence of the transposition of the EU Shareholders’ Rights Directive into Belgian federal law. However, unlike the Directive, the new Belgian Act also allows non-listed companies, mainly on an optional basis, to apply the Shareholders’ Rights Act.
Op 20 december 2010 bekrachtigde de Koning de wet betreffende de uitoefening van bepaalde rechten van aandeelhouders van genoteerde vennootschappen (hierna de "Wet Aandeelhoudersrechten"). De nieuwe wet werd op 18 april in het Staatsblad gepubliceerd en geeft uitwerking aan richtlijn 2007/36/EG van het Europees Parlement en de Raad van 11 juli 2007. De wet beoogt de hinderpalen weg te werken inzake de toegang tot, en de werking van, de algemene vergadering van aandeelhouders, in het bijzonder in een grensoverschrijdende context.
On 1 April 2011, the Royal Decree of 3 March 2011 regarding the evolution of the supervisory architecture of the financial sector ("Koninklijk besluit betreffende de evolutie van de toezichtsarchitectuur voor de financiële sector" / "Arrêté royal mettant en oeuvre l'évolution des structures de contrôle du secteur financier") (the "Royal Decree") entered into force. This Royal Decree implements the so-called "Twin Peaks" structure for the supervision of the financial sector, as introduced by the Belgian Law of 2 July 2010 (the "Twin Peaks Law").
On February 25 2010 the Supreme Court made the first-ever reference for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union on the exhaustion of Community plant variety rights under EU Regulation 2100/94.(1)
