Oliver Stevens

Experience - Stibbe assisted MBK Partners with the acquisition of Godiva.

Experience - Assisting a group of Flemish cable companies with the sale of its analog and digital television activities to Telenet and the use of part of the cable network in Flanders. 

Experience - Representing a global lifts manufacturer in several antitrust damage proceedings in Belgium brought by several entities, including the European Commission, following on from the European Commission's finding of an antitrust infringement in the elevator and escalator sector.

Experience - Assisting a leading Belgian bank with a number of highly complex and sensitive litigation cases about the sale of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) to corporate and private clients during the period 2005-2007.

Experience - Assisting a Belgian financial institution in the restructuring of its mortgage and consumer loan business, including a refinancing of its existing loan portfolios and structuring of additional funding arrangements.

Experience - Stibbe assists consortium on a Belgian PPP road project for a new highway Advising a consortium on its successful bid for the Belgian PPP road project for the new A11-highway between Knokke and Zeebruges. 

Experience - Representing an aviation client before a Belgian criminal court in a liability case relating to the fire in a hangar at the Belgian National Airport. 

Experience - Representing a major insurance company successfully in its defence before the Brussels Court against a group of claimants who purchased life insurance schemes linked to Traded Endowment Funds.

Experience - Representing Artesia Bank Nederland in the Lernout & Hauspie case before the Court of Appeal in Ghent concerning the possible confiscation of shares worth EUR 30 million. We also assisted Dexia Bank in the Lernout & Hauspie case in the case’s appeal before Belgium’s Supreme court (Hof van Cassatie/Cour de cassation).

Experience - Assisting an international manufacturer of car tow bars and exhaust systems in a major ICC arbitration concerning a software claim.