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Ambos Advocaten

ALFRED COOLSSTRAAT 2-4, 2020 ANTWERP
Tel:
Work +32 3 201 27 60
Fax:
Fax +32 3 201 27 65
Web:
www.amboslaw.be
Email:
Ghent, Antwerp

What we say about the firm's legal practice in Belgium

Corporate and M&A

Within Corporate and M&A , tier 5

Ambos Advocaten provides ‘very strong business knowledge, flexibility and superb value for money’. It continues to advise Alcopa, with recent work including several acquisitions and restructuring operations. It also acts for Autogrill in Belgium, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom. ‘Very good lawyer’ Kurt Faes is recommended alongside Filip De Schouwer.

Intellectual property

Within Intellectual property, tier 4

Clients rate Karen Ongena and the Ambos Advocaten IP practice for ‘solid advice, good file preparation, punctuality and exhaustive advice’. It acted for Vincent Sheppard, a Lloyd Loom furniture manufacturer, in several copyright and design rights cases against competitors. The team has a strong data protection practice and advises clients that include GE Fleet Services, GE Equipment Finance and Sotheby’s. Ongena is praised for ‘talking a companies language’.

Media and entertainment

Within Media and entertainment, Ambos Advocaten is a third tier firm,

Ambos Advocaten is particularly strong on contentious matters, and was recently instructed by a commercial television station in a litigation case. It represented a publishing company in a liable case, and also received instructions from several individuals in litigation against a media company. Christiaan Lesaffer is the recommended partner.

Shipping and transport

Within Shipping and transport, Ambos Advocaten is a first tier firm,

Clients assert that they are ‘very happy 
with the legal services’ provided by Ambos Advocaten. The firm advised holding company Sea-Invest on a range on mandates including customs issues for its port agency subsidiary in Zeebrugge, claims on behalf of its tank storage facility in Ghent and damage to shore installations for its fruit handling company in Antwerp. Joint venture railway company ICF instructed the practice on a substantial number of claims in the Belgian courts. Additional notable clients include the Port Authority Ghent. Peter Van de Vijver and Ingrid Van Clemen are recommended.

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  • Corrective Measures in Intellectual Property Rights

    In the context of the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy, the private sector members called for the establishment of a professional and technical group of legal practitioners, to horizontally assess intellectual property rights legal framework. The Commission welcomed this and on 22 October 2009 an inaugural meeting of the Observatory's sub-group on the legal framework took place. The group is mainly composed of legal practitioners from different Member States, suggested by the industries represented in the Observatory.
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • Damages in Intellectual Property Rights

    In the context of the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy, the private sector members called for the establishment of a professional and technical group of legal practitioners, to horizontally assess intellectual property rights legal framework. The Commission welcomed this and on 22 October 2009 an inaugural meeting of the Observatory's sub-group on the legal framework took place. The group is mainly composed of legal practitioners from different Member States, suggested by the industries represented in the Observatory.
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • Supreme court refers issue of plant variety rights exhaustion

    On February 25 2010 the Supreme Court made the first-ever reference for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union on the exhaustion of Community plant variety rights under EU Regulation 2100/94.(1)
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • New commercial practices legislation: still falling short?

    On April 6 2010 the legislature approved the replacement for the Trade Practices Act, now named the Act on Market Practices and Consumer Protection. It has two main objectives.
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • Vertical Agreements 2010

    What are the legal sources that set out the antitrust law applicable to vertical restraints? The main sources of law applicable to vertical restraints in Belgium are two Acts of 10 June 2006 on the protection of economic competition and on the establishment of a Competition Council, as coordinated by the Royal Decree of 15 September 2006 (‘the Competition Act’).
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • Immigration: European Visa Code entered into force on 5 April

    European Regulation (EC) no. 810/2009 of 13 July 2009, establishing a Community code on visas, entered into force on 5 April 2010.
    - Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris

  • New Belgian law on corporate governance

    On 18 March 2010, the Senate approved the new Corporate Governance Act, which had already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies. The new Act will be published in the Belgian State Gazette soon.
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • Hardship accepted under the CISG

    The Belgian Supreme Court has ruled that circumstances which were not reasonably foreseeable at the time of the conclusion of an agreement and which increase the burden of the agreement disproportionately, can, in certain circumstances, be considered as “an impediment” in the sense of Article 79 of the United Nations Convention on Contracs for the International Sale of Goods, signed in Vienna on 11 April 1980 (the “CISG”).
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • Plant variety rights in the distribution chain

    Under the system of plant breeders rights, also known as plant variety rights, the breeder of a new variety can obtain an exclusive right to perform certain acts with respect to material [1] of his protected variety. This exclusive right comes in the form of a certificate which is granted by a body mandated to do so,[2] provided that the variety meets the grant criteria laid down in the law. Upon grant of the certificate, and sometimes ever even before, only the breeder of the protected variety[3] is entitled to (re)produce material from the variety, condition it for the purpose of propagation, offer it for sale, sell it or otherwise put it to market, export it, import it, or stock it for any of these purposes. Subject to a number of exceptions and unless authorization from the breeder is obtained, these acts are thus reserved for the breeder of the protected variety. They are referred to as the ‘reserved acts’.
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)

  • Le contentieux de la propriété intellectuelle, nouvelle mouture: un premier bilan

    La transposition en droit belge, courant 2007, de la Directive européenne 2004/48 sur la mise en œuvre des droits de propriété intellectuelle offrit l'occasion au législateur de revoir et d'harmoniser les procédures relatives au contentieux de la propriété intellectuelle. Deux ans après son entée en vigueur, il est possible de dresser un premier bilan de la réforme. Assurément positif.
    - ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)
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