Janson’s Banking & Finance practice has built an outstanding reputation both in Belgium and internationally. Our team advises on the full spectrum of banking and finance matters, from structuring financial and banking transactions and guiding market entry strategies for banking products to providing regulatory counsel, ensuring compliance, and handling complex disputes.
Our expertise extends to securities law and asset management. We represent leading banks, financial institutions, asset managers, and wealth managers before regulatory authorities, courts, and arbitral tribunals.
Our Banking & Finance lawyers are recognized thought leaders who regularly lecture and publish scholarly articles in their areas of expertise.
Clients, governmental bodies, and industry peers frequently seek out our team to provide authoritative legal opinions on a wide range of banking and finance topics.
Practice contacts
Jens Benoot
j.benoot@janson.be
Dominique Blommaert
d.blommaert@janson.be
Didier Bracke
d.bracke@janson.be
France Wilmet
f.wilmet@janson.be
Muriel Baudoncq
m.baudonck@janson.be
David Raes
d.raes@janson.be
Lydie Van Muylem
l.vanmuylem@janson.be
Nino De Lathauwer
n.delathauwer@janson.be
Team
Louis Bouly
Margaux Clumeck
Thijs Decuyper
Arthur Favart
Line Goris
Alexandra Guillaume
Willem Possemiers
Yuan Sun
Services
Banking & finance litigation
Financing & securities
Payment services
Project finance, real estate finance, structured finance, retail finance, sustainable finance
Digital finance & FinTech
Regulatory finance
Asset management
Capital markets
Compliance & anti-money laundering
Mortgage credit and consumer credit
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 ;
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
Accolades
Chambers Europe : Dominique Blommaert – Band 3 : “Dominique Blommaert is described by one client as "extremely fluent and convincing," and "very impressive in court”.
Legal 500 : Dominique Blommaert - Leading individual
Leaders League : Banking & Finance : Recommended
