Charles Buytaert

Charles Buytaert is a trilingual business lawyer with over ten years of experience in all aspects of domestic and cross-border commercial dispute resolution (including arbitration) and contract negotiations (including M&A transactions) for Belgian as well as foreign clients across a broad spectrum of industries.

 
 

He enjoys extensive expertise in litigation concerning, amongst others, international sales agreements, shareholder disputes, post M&A disputes, termination of distributorships, director’s liability, consultancy agreements, management agreements and non-compete clauses. Charles is also active in Janson’s MEA (Middle-East & Africa) practice.

Prior to joining Janson, Charles developed his practice with Belgian boutique law firms and the American law firms Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Jones Day. 

He is a member of the Brussels Bar, the International Bar Association and the Brussels Chamber of Commerce. 

Charles is trilingual and practices in Dutch, French and English.

    • Representing a credit insurer before an arbitral tribunal in a dispute regarding a credit insurance claim of a diamond merchant

    • Representing a leading entertainment company in a post M&A dispute

    • Representing a world leading logistics company in a liability dispute

    • Representing a commercial lighting distributor in a claim with respect to the termination of a distributorship

    • Representing a Real Estate development company in a claim regarding an alleged breach of contract

    • Representing a building equipment manufacturer in a damage claim regarding a breach of contract

    • Representing a meat processing company in a claim concerning a breach of representations and warranties

    • Representing a copper manufacturer in a dispute with respect to the transportation and delivery of copper wire

    • Representing a manufacturer of vessels and equipment in a damage claim regarding an alleged breach of contract

    • Representing a pet products manufacturer in a claim with respect to the defective installation of a manufacturing site

  • Commercial

    Corporate, M&A and Private Equity

    MEA (Middle-East & Africa)

    Banking & Finance

  • Education:

    Master of Laws (UGent, 2011)

    Bar : Brussels

  • Prize of merit by the Brussels Bar in 2014 for pro bono work

 

 Contact details.

Email: c.buytaert@janson.be

Phone: +32 2 675 30 30