RWANDA Law and Practice Contributed by: Aimery de Schoutheete, Valence Rukesha, Chloé Stassart and Isaac Rwapasika, Liedekerke
Liedekerke has a labour and employment depart - ment that is one of the largest employment teams within a full-service law firm in Belgium, and which is recognised as a leading practice. With a team of nine lawyers – including three partners – it advises and as - sists clients in all matters touching on labour and em - ployment law. With offices in Brussels, London, Kin - shasa and Kigali, the firm can offer seamless services wherever its clients choose to do business. Clients in - clude Belgian, foreign and multinational corporations
that are active in numerous industry sectors, such as energy, IT, automotive, retail, hotel, food and logis - tics. The labour and employment department advises public administrations and has particular experience in (international) transfers of undertaking, collective dismissal and reorganisations, closures, trade union negotiations, compensation and benefits, discrimina - tion law, social crimes and employment fraud, and more.
Authors
Aimery de Schoutheete is a partner at Liedekerke and advises mainly corporate clients on Congolese (DRC), Rwandan and Burundian labour and employment law. His practice encompasses issues such as
Valence Rukesha is a senior associate at Liedekerke Great Lakes (Liedekerke, Kigali office) and his areas of practice include banking and finance, corporate and commercial transactions, property and real estate,
employment termination, freelance contracts, employment litigation, collective lay-offs, international law in relation to employment contracts and Congolese social security law. He is the founder and head of the Liedekerke Africa department and the chair of Liedekerke’s subsidiaries in the DRC (Liedekerke DRC) and Rwanda (Liedekerke Great Lakes covering Rwanda and Burundi). He is the author/co-author of several publications on employment law. Aimery also has an extensive practice in commercial arbitration both as counsel and arbitrator.
project finance, project restructuring, employment and labour, and insolvency administration and business rescue. Prior to joining the firm, Valence was a senior associate at ENSafrica. He started his career at Rwanda Development Board as Registrar of Secured Transactions before pursuing his banking career and was a banker for 11 years, chairing the Legal Committee of Rwanda Bankers Association for six years. He is a member of the Rwanda Bar Association and of the East African Law Society.
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