BELGIUM Law and Practice Contributed by: Alain Van Geel and Emilie Van Goidsenhoven, Tiberghien
Tiberghien has the largest private client practice at the Belgian Bar, with more than 85 years’ experience in advising families and their businesses over several generations, worldwide. The team advises on pre - nuptial agreements; gifts, wills and succession agree - ments; family governance; investments; transfers of family businesses; inheritance disputes; formal rul - ings with the federal, regional and local tax adminis - trations; family foundations, trusts and philanthropy; personal and corporate income tax; Cayman tax and
look-through taxation; HR tax law; voluntary disclo - sure and criminal law proceedings; cross-border mi - gration; family law, mediation and litigation; and tax compliance and litigation. It can rely on specialised estate planners, in-house civil law practitioners, me - diators, tax and family law litigators and the all-round expertise of a full-service corporate tax firm. Every year, Tiberghien publishes an update of the “Manual for Tax Law”, which courts regularly refer to in their judgments.
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Alain Van Geel is a partner at Tiberghien, focusing predominantly on Belgian and international family law, matrimonial property law, gifts and donations, inheritance law and law of succession, as well as (national
Emilie Van Goidsenhoven is a partner at Tiberghien, and advises Belgian and foreign high net worth individuals and (their) family businesses on direct taxation, international mobility and (inter)national estate planning. In
and international) estate planning, particularly with respect to Belgian and international civil law. He is a member of several editorial boards and lectures on (national and international) estate planning and Belgian international private law. Alain is also a member of the Comité scientifique de fiscalité internationale at the CRIDON Lyon. He is a regular speaker at seminars and has authored several estate planning-related articles in Belgian periodicals.
addition to tax expertise, her family business practice covers the setting up of appropriate corporate and/or family governance to ensure the right balance between the families and their businesses. Emilie is also a certified family mediator. She has more than 15 years’ experience, thorough expertise and a large professional network for French-Belgian tax matters, especially real estate investments, the migration of high net worth individuals and estate planning.
Tiberghien Tour & Taxis Avenue du Port 86C/419 1000 Bruxelles Belgium Tel: 003 227 734 000 Email: info@tiberghien.com Web: www.tiberghien.com
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