Pieter Wouters

Articles - The Belgium Chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Restructuring & Insolvency 2020 is online. The publication, authored by Paul Van der Putten and Pieter Wouters, covers common topics in restructuring and insolvency, including issues that arise when a company is in financial difficulties, restructuring options, insolvency procedures, tax, employees, and cross-border issues in 27 jurisdictions. 

Seminar - Erik Valgaeren, Partner TMT, and his team organize a seminar which focuses on the interaction between GDPR and litigation, corporate law, administrative law and employment law.

Short Reads - Last week Royal Decree No. 15 on the temporary suspension of enforcement measures and other measures during the COVID-19 crisis was published, which created a temporary moratorium whereby any debtor-company is in principle protected against protective and enforcement measures and against being declared bankrupt.

Articles - In 2013 Belgian Parliament enacted the Belgian Act on security rights in movable property of 11 July 2013 (the “Act”). This new legislation envisaged the creation of an electronic, online National Pledge Register so that a pledge on movable assets can be created between pledgor and pledgee and perfected by registering the pledge and without dispossession or loss of control of the pledged assets.