Practice areas
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Throughout the years, our firm has built significant expertise and experience across the African continent. This has led Janson to profound knowledge of the various legal systems in Africa, its markets and rich local cultures. All this combined makes Janson your ideal partner for your projects in Africa.
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Janson’s Banking & Finance practice enjoys a stellar reputation in Belgium and abroad.
The practice deals with all matters related to banking and finance going from advice on financial and banking operations, market penetration of banking products, regulatory advice and compliance to litigation matters in the widest sense of the word.
Our banking and finance services also encompass the fields of securities and asset management.
Janson’s lawyers represent numerous banks and financial institutions, as well as asset and wealth managers before regulatory bodies, courts and arbitral tribunals.
Many of our Banking & Finance practitioners give lectures and publish scientific articles within their field of expertise. These subject matter experts are regularly consulted by clients, governmental bodies and peers to draft legal opinions on various banking and finance topics.
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More than ever, businesses are confronted with new commercial opportunities and challenges. Our lawyers guide our clients through all legal implications this involves and cover all advisory and litigation angles related thereto.
Across industries our clients turn to us on a daily basis for the negotiating and drafting of all sorts of commercial contracts and to represent them in any contentious matters they may get involved in before courts and arbitral tribunals.
In this field, clients particularly appreciate Janson’s ability to master facts, speed and accuracy.
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Janson represents corporations in all areas of antitrust and competition (cartel, state aid, abuse of dominance and control of concentrations), in particular, in highly regulated industries.
Beyond competition, our team advises on how to take advantage of the Internal Market – and its four fundamental freedoms-and to navigate through the myriad of EU regulatory regimes applicable to their particular industry.
In a fast changing geo-political environment, we also provide counsel on the various rules controlling foreign investments and subsidies in the EU, together with other trade measures such as the EU sanctions against specific third countries.
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Janson represents buyers, sellers and advisers in domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions. Our deal portfolio includes public and private transactions across various industries. We cover all stages of the M&A process, from deal structuring, due diligence and contractual negotiations to post-closing integration.
As concerns Private Equity, our firm covers all stages of the funding cycle, including fund establishment, financing, deal structuring, due diligence, LBOs and MBOs.
We also specialize in the set-up and liquidation of corporations as well as legal matters relating to non-corporate entities, such as NPOs, international associations and public and private funds.
Our lawyers regularly appear before the courts and arbitral institutions (as counsels or arbitrators) in cases regarding corporate litigation including cases such as shareholder disputes, director’s liability and M&A dispute resolution.
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Our firm handles all matters relating to both labor law and social security law. Individual labor law and collective labor relations which are the core activities of our Employment practice. Our lawyers also have extensive experience in the cross border dimension of these two complementary fields.
We deal with the restructuring of corporations, whether through conventional transfer or otherwise (i.e. transfers, mergers, divisions and collective layoffs). Janson’s expertise also relates to social security regulation matters such as proceedings regarding collective regulation and closure of corporations, as well as the occasional bankruptcy of major groups.
Our lawyers are experienced litigators with respect to disputes on the performance and termination of employment contracts.
Janson also manages all legal aspects relating to medicine, hospitals and healthcare professionals.
It should be noted that we are regularly consulted to give trainings to the Human Resources departments of corporations.
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Janson’s Energy, mobility & climate change department is one of the Belgian’s most renowned and rewarded practices in the Market.
Led by Guy Block, the team advises many public authorities (such as governments, regulators, network operators, etc) and private entities (such as electricity and gas suppliers, natural gas transporters, consumer groups, investors, industrialists, etc) in the various challenges they face, both on domestic and international level.
The practice offers numerous services including the drafting of contracts, laws, decrees, orders, technical regulations and network codes as well as the conduct of negotiations with international and European bodies such as the European Commission.
The team has a significant experience in the fields of transport (railway, air & road), energy (gas, nuclear, renewable energy, international cooperation etc.) and climate change.
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Janson advises and assists private individuals, as well as wealth managers and private bankers in the field of estate planning and the various challenges related thereto.
Our lawyers represent clients in disputes regarding ownership and property dismemberment (exit from joint ownership, disputes between co-owners, conversion of usufruct), succession (national and international inheritance disputes, liquidation and division procedures), liquidation of matrimonial property regimes, and the administration of assets of vulnerable persons. In all these areas, they ensure that they demonstrate the right creativity enabling amicable solutions.
Janson advises its clients in their choice of an adequate matrimonial property regime or legal cohabitation and in the drafting of property agreements, wills and inheritance pacts.
Our lawyers are also involved in the transfer of family businesses, their reorganization, and their liquidation.
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Our Insurance & Liability practice is consulted by insured, insurers and insurance brokers for general insurance and liability management, risk mitigation, pre-litigation advice and representation before courts and arbitral tribunals in insurance (including credit insurance) and liability matters.
Janson assists its clients throughout all areas of insurance such as professional liability, property insurance, business interruption, product liability, Directors and Officers liability, bodily injury, health insurance and life insurance.
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Janson has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting IP-related agreements, including license agreements, research and development agreements (R&D), consortium agreements (with specific expertise in EU funded projects), merchandising and sponsoring agreements, non-disclosure agreements (NDA), IT related agreements, technology transfer and links on intellectual property assets. We are also regularly consulted to carry out audits and due diligence within the framework of mergers and acquisitions.
Our lawyers possess extensive experience in data protection and assist clients in their GDPR compliance processes.
Clients also call on Janson to reinforce their IP portfolios and to defend them against infringement claims. Janson’s lawyers are regularly appointed as arbitrators in IP related proceedings before arbitral tribunals.
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Resolving a conflict does not necessarily mean going to court. When communication is difficult or even broken between two or more people, it may be advisable to try mediation in order to re-establish dialogue and avoid a long and costly procedure.
The mediator is an independent, neutral and impartial third party whose mission is to help the parties find an agreement that takes into account their needs and interests, that improves (or at least does not deteriorate) their relationship, that is durable, that complies with the rules of public order and that also respects the people who will have to suffer the consequences of this agreement. Mediation has the advantage of being confidential and voluntary. The parties and the mediator may terminate the mediation at any time. Mediations result in agreements in 70% of cases.
In order to be "accredited", the mediators must have undergone a long and rigorous training program governed by the law. They must also follow a continuous training and they are bound to respect a strict Code of ethics.
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Guided by stellar academics, Janson’s Public & Administrative practice is highly regarded and valued for its in-depth knowledge of public law which defines the fundamentals in any law making process.
Janson deals with all matters related to spatial planning and environment. Our firm assists its clients in obtaining and challenging permits as well as in any court litigation related thereto.
Our lawyers active in the field of public and administrative law regularly assist in due diligence within the framework of M&A and real estate transactions. They also provide assistance in matters with respect to private or public infrastructure projects or the erection of production sites.
Janson also advises its clients on matters of government expropriation and in litigation related thereto.
We furthermore have extensive experience in the preparation of tenders and challenging the awards thereof.
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Janson addresses all areas of real estate transactions and its lawyers are involved in all aspects of planning, negotiating and executing real estate projects. We work closely with investors, developers, real estate brokers and managers, contractors, architects and engineers.
Our lawyers are consulted on a daily basis for their assistance in the acquisition or sale of real estate corporations and buildings, as well as for all litigation matters related thereto.
As regards construction, Janson acts as counsel for all actors active in this field across various disputes.
We are also involved in transformation and renovation projects at the request of private clients, co-owners' associations and industrial or commercial centers.
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This practice is composed of experienced specialists (of whom two are court appointed bankruptcy trustees) in complex domestic and cross border restructuring and insolvency matters.
Our experience covers distressed acquisitions and sales, debt restructuring, insolvency proceedings as well as out of court refinancing. Janson’s lawyers have assisted numerous distressed corporations in their transfer under judicial authority and also regularly give lectures on this particular topic.
Furthermore, we have in-depth expertise within the framework of voluntary or judicial liquidation of corporations.
Janson is frequently consulted for the take-over of or participation in corporations in distress by private equity firms seeking a turnaround of such corporations enabling their continuity and yield recuperation.
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Tax implications are part of every business formation, operation and transaction, whether domestic or cross-border. Tax laws and regulations often drive a corporation’s business strategy and structure.
Janson provides tax solutions that answer the complex objectives and challenges of its client’s business dealings and revenue streams.
We assist and represent corporations, non-profit organizations and individuals established in Belgium and abroad in connection with the application of Belgian tax legislation and international tax conventions entered into by the Belgian State.
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Our criminal defense lawyers represent corporations, executives and other individuals in a wide range of investigations and prosecutions relating to financial and economic crime. They also act as counsel to victims of criminal offences.
Next to its defense activities, our White Collar Crime practice advises clients on compliance, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and whistle blowing policies. Our lawyers also carry out internal investigations relating to those matters.
Janson constantly monitors the numerous legal, regulatory and technological challenges that businesses are confronted with. As a result thereof, we are able to continuously optimize our services to our clients at today’s pace.