Track record.

• Assisting a consortium of lenders in their set-up of mortgages and floating charges by Belgian borrowers and guarantors

• Advising several international banks and financial conglomerates on their banking and credit activities in Belgium

• Assisting in numerous financial institutions in their requests to be admitted as credit providers in Belgium

• Negotiating and drafting of various complex financing agreements for credit institutions, including project finance deals and cash pool agreements

• Assistance with the IPO of a SICAFI (fixed capital real estate investment fund)

• Defending one of Belgium’s leading banks in the largest class action suit that has ever been initiated in Belgium

• Representing financial institutions in a dispute with respect to funding loss

• Representing numerous banks in disputes regarding investment mortgages

• Defending a renowned financial institution in a dispute related to credit risk

• Acting as chairman of an arbitral tribunal on the application of the “MiFID” legislation

 Academic & scientific work.

• Dominique Blommaert is a lecturer in Banking & Finance at the University of Ghent ;

• Cedric Alter is a professor in Business Law at the Solvay school of business & economics at the University of Brussels

• David Raes is a scientific collaborator of the Economic Law Unit of the Private Law Institute of the University of Brussels

• The team has published many books and articles over the past few years, including the following :

  • D. Blommaert & P. Algrain : « Le crédit lié : une suite sans fin ... » T.B.H, 2020

  • M. Baudoncq : “Belgian chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide - Fintech 2020, A practical cross-border insight into fintech law”, 2020

  • F. Wilmet & M. Baudoncq : “Cryptocurrencies, ICO’s and smart contracts from a legal perspective”, GLI Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Regulation (Belgium chapter), 2019

  • D. Blommaert : “De beoordeling van de solvabiliteit van de consument bij krediettoekenning op basis van de Guidelines over de kredietwaardigheidsbeoordeling: welk impact op de praktijk?”, Bank- en Financieel Recht, 2019/4

  • D. Blommaert, “Pay and Borrow as you go mobile”. Het juridische kader inzake m-payments & - credit, in M-Commerce, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2017

  • M. Baudoncq : “Brexit - Is winter coming for UK banks? Overview of certain challenges faced by UK banks in case of ‘hard’ Brexit in light of the regulatory framework applicable to third country banks”, Actualités en droit commercial et bancaire, Liber Amicorum Martine Delierneux, Larcier, 2017

  • D. Blommaert & P. Algrain : « Le champ d’application du crédit hypothécaire, in Le crédit hypothécaire au consommateur. Etat de la question », Brussel, Larcier, 2017

  • D. Blommaert & P. Algrain : « crédit en droit commun et le crédit réglementé », in Traité Pratique de Droit commercial, Tome 5, Kluwer 2016

  • D. Blommaert & D. Bracke, De aansprakelijkheid van de bankier als kredietverlener in het gemeen en bijzonder kredietrecht, Gent, Larcier, 2015

  • C. Alter, « Droit bancaire général », Larcier, 2010

  • C. Alter, « Les comptes en banque », in Traité Pratique de Droit Commercial, t. 5, Kluwer, 2007

 Accolades.

• Chambers Europe : Dominique Blommaert – Band 3 : “Dominique Blommaert is described by one client as "extremely fluent and convincing," and "very impressive in court”.

• Chambers Europe : Cedric Alter – Band 4 : “Cedric Alter is praised by clients for being "very hands-on, so he gets to know the client, and also very creative and able to make things unique for each client". 

• Legal 500 : Dominique Blommaert - Leading individual 

• Leaders League : Banking & Finance : Recommended