Liedekerke

Commercial Contracts and Litigation, Insurance and Liability

Partner

Olivier Vanden Berghe heads the firm’s Commercial Contracts and Litigation Practice. He is specialised in commercial contracts litigation and has been representing large undertakings since more than 25 years in a wide range of commercial issues.

He deals with the legal aspects and litigation relating to “business-to-business” transactions in a large variety of sectors, such as energy, pharmaceuticals, retail, construction and engineering. He is mentioned in Legal 500 Industry focus: Energy (Belgium) and as a Leading Individual for Litigation and Retail.

He assists clients in determining the most appropriate business scheme, anticipating risks, dealing with business-critical situations and preventing or resolving disputes. His activity focuses on energy, distribution networks and cooperation agreements, industrial construction and engineering activities and joint ventures.

Olivier regularly publishes on the subject of commercial contracts and litigation and has been teaching a course on this subject at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven).

He holds a law degree from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven 1993) and an advanced degree in civil law from Paris II University (1994).

Olivier has been an attorney in Brussels since 1995 and joined Liedekerke in 2001, where he became a Partner in 2008.

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