Cédric Alter

Cédric leads Janson’s Insolvency and Restructuring practice. He is also well known for his strong track record in commercial litigation (including arbitration).

 
 

Cédric has acquired significant experience in insolvency law, business law and contract law, working for both national and international clients.

He is also regularly involved in court and arbitration proceedings (as counsel or arbitrator), and is a member of the Belgian Center for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI and ICC). He is also one of the Belgian representatives of the ICC Commission on arbitration and ADR.

Cédric is a professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB), where he teaches business law.

He is also co-chair of the Belgian CAP Network, which brings together insolvency professionals, and co-chair of the Legislation and Policy Subcommittee of the IBA/International Bar Association.

    • Acting as Court appointed facilitator in the international restructuring of the Hamon Group, an international structure specialized in the field of engineering and project management of industrial thermal systems and industrial smoke abatement

    • Acting as Court appointed mediator of the Pain quotidien holding company in an international restructuring procedure (winner for CONSUMER STAPLES DEAL OF THE YEAR in The M&A Advisor’s 15th Annual Turnaround Awards program in New York, USA)

    • Representing main national and international companies specialised in the collection and recycling of wastes, together with their professional corporation, in legal proceedings against the Brussels Region and the public collector for State Aid infringement

    • CEPANI arbitrations: member of an arbitral tribunal in a dispute relating to a guarantee call under a share transfer agreement and President of an arbitral tribunal in a dispute relating to the execution of a management agreement

    • AD HOC arbitration: counsel to a Belgian insurance company in a dispute regarding the insurance coverage of a claim on wind turbines that gave rise to an ad hoc arbitration in Belgium (value: 9 million euros, the largest insurance claim of this company since its creation)

  • Restructuring & Insolvency

    Banking & Finance

    Commercial

    Corporate, M&A & Private Equity

  • Education :

    Master of laws (ULB, 1995)

    Bar :

    Brussels

  • Legal 500, Chambers, Leaders League

    • Insolvabilité des entreprises - Dépistage, mesures préventives et procédures de réorganisation judiciaire, with Zoé Pletinckx, Larcier, 2019 (503 p.)

    • Guide de la procédure de réorganisation judiciaire, with Jean-Philippe Lebeau, Kluwer, 2015 (111 p.)

    • La loi sur la continuité des entreprises revisitée par la loi du 27 mai 2013, with Alain Zenner, Larcier, Dossiers du J.T. 2014 (253 p.)

    • Droit Bancaire Général, Larcier, Répertoire Notarial, 2010 (391 p.)

 

 Contact details.

E-mail: c.alter@janson.be

Phone: +32 2 675 30 30