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WilmerHale

BASTION TOWER, PLACE DU CHAMP DE MARS 5, BE 1050 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

Washington DC, Waltham, Palo Alto, Oxford, New York, Los Angeles , and 7 more

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

Competition

Within Competition, WilmerHale is a third tier firm,

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP’s lawyers are ‘very experienced and can cover both sides of the Atlantic’ and offer ‘clear and pragmatic advice’. Clients single out John Ratliff’s ‘huge professional experience’, whilst Sven Völcker ‘is a key industry partner in competition law’, especially in the airline industry. The team is also ‘recommended for general compliance advice’. Work on the air cargo cartel for two major airlines was a 2010 highlight; merger control mandates also predominate, such as the Cisco/Tandberg deal. Paul von Hehn is also recommended.

Corporate and M&A

Within Corporate and M&A , tier 5

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP assist a variety of US, German, and Swedish companies with their general corporate advisory needs, and corporate litigation and investigations. Of counsel Frank de Paepe is the main contact.

Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping

Within Customs, trade, WTO and anti-dumping, WilmerHale is a third tier firm,

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP’s Jacques Bourgeois, is the senior counsel maintaining the firm’s customs, trade, and anti-dumping practice. He intervened on behalf of the European Industrial Fasteners Institute in the General Court in an antidumping case.

EU regulatory

Within EU regulatory: Telecoms, WilmerHale is a first tier firm,

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP assists major European mobile phone groups (including Belgian and French clients), with advice on spectrum allocations, and tax treatment; it also assisted the Cisco/Tandberg merger. Christain Duvernoy is recommended.

Within EU regulatory: Transport, WilmerHale is a first tier firm,

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP advise air cargo companies and leading European airlines, including Lufthansa, for whom it has acted in relation to many previous merger control proceedings, and associated EU regulatory work.

Information technology

Within Information technology, WilmerHale is a third tier firm,

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP’s information technology practice works closely on competition law issues, where it has advised AOL and RedHat. It also assisted with the Cisco/Tandberg merger, and continues to advise on joint ventures, licensing and distribution systems to IT clients.

What we say worldwide

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Belgium

Offices in Brussels

Germany

Offices in Berlin and Frankfurt

London

Offices in London EC2V and London W1K

United States

Offices in Waltham, Washington DC, Boston, Palo Alto, New York, and Los Angeles

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Employment in more than one country - place where the employee habitually carries out his work

place of business through which the employee was engaged

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
No social security contributions due on a 'premium for drinks'

A 'premium for drinks' that is paid by the employer to comply with its obligation to put the appropriate drinks at the disposal of its employees is not subjected to social security contributions.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Gaming & Gambling Law Newsletter January 2012

Judgment in the Rank Group plc cases (C-259/10 and C-260/10): interpretation of the principle of fiscal neutrality applied to gambling

- ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)
FSMA MiFID Action Plan announced

Like in many of our neighboring countries, the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) is taking a more persistent approach in pursuing compliance with MiFID conduct of business. In that regard it has announced a “MiFID Action Plan”.

- Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
International mobility - limited access to the Belgian labour market

Bulgarian and Romanian workers still need a work permit until 31 December 2013.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Modification of the dismissal rules as from 1 January!

Claeys & Engels has updated the calculation modules on www.formuleclaeys.be. Higher level white-collar employees who enter into service after 1 January 2012 will, in the event they are dismissed, be entitled to a notice period, calculated on the basis of the IPA Act. The new notice period amounts to 30 days per started year in service, with a minimum of 91 days.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Social elections 2012: Day X-35 (between 3 and 16 January)

On day X-35 at the latest, the employer must announce several decisions. The latter may be subject to appeal before the labour tribunal at the latest on day X-28.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris
Enantiomers and race-mates: the same product?

On October 3 2011 the Brussels Commercial Court invalidated Lundbeck's supplementary protection certificate (SPC) for escitalopram, the 'S' enantiomer of its racemate citalopram. The court held that escitalopram is the same product as citalopram, and that the former's SPC did not comply with Articles 3(c) and (d) of EU Regulation 469/2009. The court held that it was in the interests of patients to declare the decision provisionally enforceable.

- ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)
Employment Law News Flash

Another year draws to its close. At the eleventh hour, a government was formed, a budget was agreed and political pledges were made to tackle the current adverse economic and financial climate. The year-end - traditionally a busy period with the issuing of hefty Programme Statutes - marks the beginning of intensified law-making under the reign of Di Rupo I.

- ALTIUS (in cooperation with Tiberghien)
Towards a new dismissal regime

The new regime of dismissal compensation must be simple and should in no way lead to a cost increase for employers. Unnecessary procedures before the courts must be avoided. The purchasing power of the dismissed individuals must be maintained.

- Claeys & Engels, member of Ius Laboris