Rudy Nauwelaerts

With a career of erelong 40 years, Rudy Nauwelaerts is Stibbe’s most experienced real estate lawyer. Thanks to his wealth of experience and long-standing expertise in all transactional aspects of real estate, he is considered an authority in the Belgian real estate legal market.

Rudy focuses on all kinds of property-related matters. He is particularly active in project development, leasing, acquisitions, and general real estate contracts. Rudy advises on a broad range of assets such as retail, residential units, offices, hotels, care facilities, and parking lots. His clients include leading Belgian and foreign companies such as insurers, project developers, retailers, public bodies, REITs and investment funds. He also acts as arbitrator at CEPANI for disputes in real estate transactions.

Rudy lectures real estate law to students of the postgraduate programme in real estate management at KU Leuven. He also acts as thesis advisor to real estate law students at the Antwerp Management School.

Rudy graduated in Law from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He joined the Brussels office of Stibbe in 1984.

Languages: Dutch, French, English
Admitted to the Brussels Bar: 1984
Partner since: 1994

Experience

04.07.2017 NL law
Stibbe advises Retail Estates

Experience - Stibbe advises Retail Estates, a Belgium investor in retail estate located in the periphery, on the acquisition of five retail parks in the Netherlands with a total investment value of EUR 75.6 million.

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Team: Maarten de Bruin, Rudy Nauwelaerts, Boris Cammelbeeck, Jan van Oosten
29.05.2017 NL law
Stibbe advises Q-Park

Experience - Stibbe advises Q-Park on the irrevocable and unconditional offer from KKR Infrastructure to acquire 100% of the outstanding share capital of Q-Park for an enterprise value of €2.95 billion.

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Team: Duco de Boer, Maarten de Bruin, Jeroen Smits, Job van Hooff, Boris Cammelbeeck, Anna Collignon, Rein van Helden, Dries Hommez, Elisabeth Matthys, Frederik Vandendriessche, Rudy Nauwelaerts, Jan Proesmans
16.05.2017 NL law
Stibbe advises Moody’s Corporation

Experience - Stibbe is advising Moody’s Corporation, the US credit rating agency, on its € 3 billion acquisition of Bureau van Dijk, a global provider of business intelligence and company information, from Swedish private equity firm EQT.

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Team: Hans Witteveen, Pascal Vanden Borre, Rudy Nauwelaerts
01.01.2017 BE law
Stibbe advises Makro Cash & Carry Belgium

Experience - Acting as longstanding legal counsel for Makro Cash & Carry Belgium in various legal fields, such as socio-economic legislation, competition law and unfair competition law, consumer protection, general commercial law and permitting rules for the development, extension or reorganisation of several Metro and Makro stores in Belgium.

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Team: Jan Bouckaert, Rudy Nauwelaerts, Peter Wytinck
07.09.2016 BE law
Stibbe advises Blue Gate Antwerp

Experience - Assisting Blue Gate Antwerp in the redevelopment of its petroleum business cluster.

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Team: Jan Bouckaert, Rudy Nauwelaerts, Nathanaelle Kiekens
29.08.2013 BE law
Stibbe advised AG Real Estate

Experience - Stibbe advised AG Real Estate on the urban redevelopment of the “Kanaalkom” site in Hasselt (Flanders).

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Team: Jan Bouckaert, David D'Hooghe, Nathanaelle Kiekens, Rudy Nauwelaerts
29.11.2011 BE law
Stibbe advises the Port of Antwerp International regarding its strategic partnership with Essar Ports

Experience - Advising the Port of Antwerp International (PAI), the international investment arm of the Antwerp Port Authority, regarding its strategic partnership with Essar Ports Ltd. (EPL), which is India’s second largest private sector ports operator, and regarding PAI's investment into EPL.

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Team: Wouter Ghijsels, Rudy Nauwelaerts
06.04.2011 BE law
Stibbe advises Beherman Auto

Experience - Advising Beherman Auto on the development of the new headquarters and labs for the Belgian Red Cross in the City of Mechelen (Flanders).

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Team: Rudy Nauwelaerts, Rony Vermeersch
22.03.2011 BE law
Stibbe advises the Brussels Airport Company

Experience - Advising the Brussels Airport Company on the real estate aspects and bidding procedure regarding the redevelopment of the Gateway Building at Brussels Airport and assisting it with the drafting and negotiation of all contractual documentation related to the Building’s redevelopment.

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Team: Rudy Nauwelaerts, David D'Hooghe, Frederik Vandendriessche
01.01.2010 BE law
Stibbe assists PMV on the construction of a Flemish Administrative Centre

Experience - Assisting Participatiemaatschappij Vlaanderen (PMV) on the construction of a new 'VAC' (Flemish Administrative Centre) in Brussels.

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Team: Jan Bogaert, Jan Bouckaert, David D'Hooghe, Nathanaelle Kiekens, Rudy Nauwelaerts, Wim Panis, Frederik Vandendriessche

Related news

28.05.2019 NL law

Stibbe attends Provada 2019

Conference - PROVADA will host its annual property fair from 4 to 6 June 2019; the 15th edition of the biggest property event in the Netherlands. Teams from Stibbe’s offices in both Amsterdam and Brussels office will be attending.

04.08.2017 BE law

Belgian VAT: Government announces option to tax the leasing of immovable property to professionals

Short Reads - On 26 July 2017 the Belgian Federal Government announced that it reached a consensus on a major tax reform. One of the less highlighted measures of this reform is the introduction of an option to make the leasing of immovable property between professionals subject to VAT. On 2 August 2017 the Minister of Finance issued a press release confirming and emphasizing the importance of this element of the reform.

Team: Wim Panis, Rudy Nauwelaerts

11.03.2019 NL law

Stibbe attends MIPIM 2019

Conference - Reed MIDEM organises its annual property event MIPIM (Le marché international des professionnels de l’immobilier) from 12-15 March in Cannes. A team from Stibbe’s offices worldwide attends the 30th edition of the world's leading property market

21.01.2016 BE law

Advocatenkantoor Stibbe legt de focus – Geen bouwsector zonder gespecialiseerde juristen.

Trends - We moeten het u niet vertellen: de bouwsector is door allerlei regels en wetten enorm complex geworden. De kleinste vergetelheid, vergissing of redetwist kan leiden tot jarenlange vertragingen, discussies over verantwoordelijkheden en financiële debacles. Meer dan ooit is gedegen juridisch advies noodzakelijk om op een efficiënte manier projecten te realiseren, zowel preventief als curatief.