BELGIUM Law and Practice Contributed by: Joan Carette, Philippe De Prez and Thomas Derval, Simont Braun
Simont Braun is a leading independent Belgian and EU business law firm. Its digital finance team counts eight lawyers with vast experience in financial services regulation, tech and data. The firm assists fintech companies with disrup - tive projects on all their regulatory, legal, data and compliance queries. It represents clients before the Belgian financial regulators regard - ing licence applications, the introduction of new products and services, and audits by the regu - lators. The lawyers have specific experience in implementing all types of financial services con -
duct-of-business rules and with the structuring of financial services marketing and advertising. The practice is also heavily involved in con - tractual drafting and sector-specific complex litigation. The team regularly combines finan - cial regulation with anti-money laundering, data protection, e-commerce, ICT, AI and electronic signatures. The team furthermore assists for - eign companies that wish to roll out their prod - ucts and services on the Belgian market and/or set up their EEA hub in Belgium.
Authors
Joan Carette is a financial law and fintech partner at Simont Braun who combines broad expertise in financial and regulatory law with specific knowledge of tech and data
Philippe De Prez is a financial law and fintech partner at Simont Braun with a strong
focus on financial regulatory law. He assists domestic and foreign credit and financial institutions, investment firms, payment service providers, e-money issuers, crypto platforms and technical services providers. Philippe works on fintech, insurtech, regtech and other disruptive initiatives in connection with payments, banking, investments, credits and crypto assets He is a multilingual conference speaker and author of various finance and fintech- related contributions. He is actively involved in dedicated fintech programmes organised by some of the top Belgian universities.
regulations, including electronic identification and trust services (eIDAS), data protection, IT contracting and outsourcing. She advises banks, payment institutions, e-money institutions, fintechs and regtechs on all legal and regulatory aspects relating to their activities. Joan’s professional background includes experience with the Belgian financial supervisory authority, where she supervised banks, money exchange, investment firms and payment institutions. She is a board member of FinTech Belgium and of the AEDBF Belgique and AEDBF Europe.
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