Laurent du Jardin

Laurent is specialized in distribution and competition law. He is one of the most sought-after lawyers in the automotive sector. His reputation extends to all sectors where selective distribution is practiced: watchmaking, textiles, mass retailing.

 
 

Laurent accumulates experience: 

He has been a member of the Brussels Bar for 30 years, where he performs all the functions of a lawyer: opinions, contracts, litigation. 

He is a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain where he has been teaching distribution law and credit law for 15 years. 

He also has experience as in-house counsel: 4 years as General Counsel of Renault Belgium Luxembourg S.A. have allowed him to understand and assimilate the "clients' expectations" particularly well. 

Laurent's team handles cases in French, Dutch and English.

    • Assisted several car importers in setting up their distribution networks in compliance with the European regulations

    • Assisting numerous dealers or agents in the soft landing (and with indemnity) of their terminated contracts

    • Negotiating the transfer of a business (asset deals), often in order to terminate a concession or franchise agreement whose termination is notified or envisaged

    • Submission of the first case of "abuse of economic dependence" to the Belgian Competition Authority

    • Assistance in the "contractual" life of companies (relations, conflicting or not, with lessors, suppliers and customers)

    • Advice on financing and guarantees

    • Occasional interventions in disputes brought by colleagues, at their side as a specialist in selective distribution

    • Distribution

    • Competition

  • Education

    • Doctorate in Law (UCL 2001)

    • Certificate in international law (University of Leiden 1989)

    • Master of laws (UCL 1988)

    Bar : Brussels

    • « La rémunération de l’agent commercial, son indemnité d’éviction et son indemnité réparatrice », note sous Cass. 11 juin 2021, R.D.C., 2022, pp. 376-379.

    • « Commerce électronique : la nouvelle donne », Journal des Tribunaux, 2020, pp. 601 – 609.

    • « En attendant Godot – Le droit belge de la distribution tel qu’il devrait être », Revue de Droit Commercial, 2020/4, pp. 446-465.

    • « Distribution sélective et Internet : nouveau western ? », Journal de droit européen, 2018, pp. 126 – 130.

    • « Mille-feuilles en droit de la distribution. Le principe de la convention-loi et l’obligation d’information précontractuelle à l’épreuve de la réalité », in S. Stijns et P. Wéry éds, Le droit des obligations dans la vie de l’entreprise, Brugge, die Keure, 2017, pp. 347 – 379.

    • Les contrats de distribution sélective, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2014, 232 p.

    • Un confort sous-estimé dans la contractualisation des groupes de sociétés: la lettre de patronage, thèse, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Louvain XXXIV, Bruxelles, Bruylant, Paris, L.G.D.J., 2002, 330 p.

 

 Contact details.

E-mail:  l.dujardin@janson.be

Phone: +32 2 675 30 30