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

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.