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Yves Van Couter
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Work Department
Commercial Law Practice Group and the Food & Beverages and Media Law Teams.
Position
Yves' specialises in (international) commercial law, and intellectual property law (including technology transfers and trade mark licensing), distribution law (including franchising law) and market practices (including advertising, labeling and packaging). He both advises his clients in these fields and represents them in court in litigation relating to these topics. Yves also teaches intellectual property law at the Brussels Institute for Contemporary China Studies (BICCS) in the framework of Investing in Europe - the Benelux as a gateway, a program of studies organized by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Yves is an arbitrator with the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva and with the CEPANI (Belgian Center for Arbitration and Mediation) in Belgium. He has authored several publications on commercial contracts and intellectual property law.
Career
2003: Partner, Loyens & Loeff Prior to joining Loyens & Loeff, Yves was a Partner at a major Belgian law firm.
Languages
Yves works in Dutch, French, English and Spanish.
Education
Yves holds an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law from a joint program between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the KU Leuven (Belgium, 2000), an LL.M. in Common Law Studies from the Georgetown University (Washington D.C., U.S.A., 1994), a LL.M. in International and European Law from the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1991), and a Law degree from Universiteit Gent (Belgium, 1990).
