Janson Baugniet

The partners and associates of the department deal with various matters, contentious or not, in the fields of banking and/or financial law in the broad sense of the term, including credit consumer protection and data privacy. In some instances these matters are included in the wider context of the law of obligations and contract law.

Our counseling activity involves, inter alia, the design and setting up of financial or banking products, but might also encompass the fields of securities, financial services and asset management.

Moreover, the department provides assistance to clients in financial operations of various kinds, which also involves securities and guaranties issues.

The litigation practice is mainly active in representing banking and financial institutions, commercial companies or consumers before the Courts. We have an established arbitration practice (with lawyers of the firm acting as ar bitrator or counsel), which can also be conducted in English.

For the purposes of discretion, we do not disclose our clients' names. However, lawyers from the department act as regular counsel for four of the biggest banking and financial international conglomerates in their Belgian banking and credit activities.

We also represent two of the four main Belgian banks and other banking and credit institutions at the national level. Finally, we represent two "niche" Belgian banks, one of them active in Belgium and the other internationally.

The international guide LEGAL 500 nominated our department as follows : "The team recently won a government tender, advising on the modernisation of regulations for credit products. Clients single out Dominique Blommaert for his reputation as a skilled and experienced litigator in the field of Belgian financial and banking law, and his academic credentials. Cédric Alter and Didier Bracke are recommended for banking litigation."