Rudi Desmet KC > ASTREA CVBA > Antwerp, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
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Rudi Desmet KC
Work Department
Employment law
Position
Rudi Desmet is a partner at Astrea. He has over 30 years of working experience of which more than 25 years of experience as an Employment lawyer. He heads the Employment law practice of Astrea, counseling national and international clients with respect to individual and collective employment law, social security, immigration and international employment, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions (TUPE), and outsourcing, (supplementary) pensions, privacy (GDPR) and sports law.
He has considerable experience in advising, litigation and (collective) negotiation. Rudi will plead cases at the bar in all Belgian labour courts, both in Dutch or French language.
Rudi has worked during six years as a legal counsel. He then incorporated a new recognized payroll office and has managed this start-up the next four years. In that period he acquired an Executive MBA at the Vlerick Management School.
Rudi returned to the Antwerp bar in 2000. His employment law team consists of six employment law specialists. He is recognized by international directories as an expert in employment law.
Career
(2006 – present) Astrea – Partner
(2000 – 2006) Lawfort (previously Landwell) – Partner
(1994 – 2000) Easypay Group and Payroll Office Easypay (SSE) – Head of Legal and Manager Payroll Office
(1989 – 1994) Storme, Leroy, Van Parys & Doolaege – Lawyer
Languages
Dutch, English and French.
Memberships
Rudi Desmet is an active member of the Vlerick Business School Alumni.
Education
Vlerick Management School (1998) – Master of Business Administration (cum laude)
University of Ghent (1992) – Post Master in Business European Law (cum laude)
University of Ghent (1989) – Master of Laws