BELGIUM Law and Practice Contributed by: Pieter Puelinckx, Yves Moreau, Melissa Verplancke and Gauthier Callens, Linklaters
Linklaters is a leading global law firm, support - ing clients in achieving their strategies wherever they do business. The firm uses its expertise and resources to help clients pursue opportuni - ties and manage risk across emerging and de - veloped markets around the world. In Belgium, Linklaters has a presence dating from 1969 and offices in both Brussels and Antwerp. The con - struction practice is part of the real estate prac - tice, which has been organised in a unique way, offering an integrated one-stop approach com - bining all areas of relevance for real estate de -
velopment and transactions. The team includes specialists in real estate M&A, real estate invest - ment, real estate finance, projects and project finance, public law, construction, environment, planning/zoning, tax, real estate funds, capi - tal markets derivatives and structured finance, construction and real estate disputes, and en - ergy. This enables the real estate practice to perform market-leading international projects and deal from origination to financing and on to securitisation/capital markets.
Authors
Pieter Puelinckx has been a partner since 2002 in the real estate and energy and infrastructure practices at Linklaters. Pieter has built up significant experience in real
Yves Moreau has been a partner at Linklaters since 1999, has been the head of the real estate practice since May 2007 and was Linklaters’ global head of real estate from January 2011
estate law, construction law and financial law (including asset finance and project finance) and has emerged as a major player in Belgium for real estate, construction and significant infrastructure and industrial projects including PPP projects and joint ventures. His real estate practice includes the structuring of real estate projects (offices, hotels, residential, retail and industrial), sale-and-leaseback transactions and joint ventures. He handles both asset real estate and corporate/M&A real estate transactions. Pieter’s infrastructure practice covers industrial, social and infrastructure projects and asset finance transactions.
until March 2017. He has significant experience in real estate investments and divestments, real estate public procurements, construction law, M&A, notarial law, projects, real estate companies, real estate financing and taxation, registration duties and the structuring of real estate projects and joint ventures. Yves also has extensive experience in the field of leasing (financial and/or VAT) and lease agreements (office, residential and commercial).
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