23 June 2017: Seminar on the new legislation and jurisprudence regarding digital criminal investigation

Short Reads - On September 4, Erik Valgaeren, TMT partner at Stibbe Brussels, together with Philippe De Backer, Secretary of State for Privacy, and 8 other experts took part in a panel on the impact of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Short Reads - Vous trouverez ci-dessous une sélection de législations récentes dans l'Union européenne et en Belgique.

Conference - On Tuesday 26 September 2017, Erik Valgaeren discusses data privacy issues with a focus on international transfers and the status of the privacy shield at a conference for members of the Practice Group International Company Lawyers of IBJ/IJE (Instituut voor Bedrijfsjuristen/Institut des juristes d’entreprise).

Short Reads - On 10 August 2017, the judgment of the the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal (Court of Appeal) was published which held that a purchaser of all the shares in a Dutch company, Thermagas, could not rely on a non-competition clause with a duration of 5 years in a share purchase agreement (SPA). This decision quashes an earlier District Court judgment, which had allowed the purchaser to invoke this clause against one of the sellers that had gone on to continue business in the same market with a different company.