Mr Philippe François > NautaDutilh > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
NautaDutilh Offices
CHAUSSÉE DE LA HULPE, 120
1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Mr Philippe François
Work Department
Employment and Pensions
Position
Partner
Career
Philippe François heads up the Employment group. Prior to specialising in employment law, Philippe had a general corporate and M&A practice.
Philippe has experience in all areas of employment law, including litigation, and focuses, in particular, on restructurings, the transfer of undertakings, outsourcing and employee consultation requirements.
Philippe has represented clients such as NorthgateArinso, AstraZeneca, Unilever, Hoverspeed, FedEx, Zenitel, Medtronic, VLM, Jet Airways and GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, amongst others, in a wide variety of transactions and court cases.
He joined NautaDutilh in 1994 and was named a partner in 2002.
Languages
Dutch, French and English
Memberships
Member of the Brussels Bar. Philippe is a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association and has lectured and published on various topics in the field of employment law. He is also the co-founder and a board member of the Vereniging voor sociaal recht.
Education
Philippe received his law degree from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1991.
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Employment
Belgian and multinational clients in the life sciences, TMT and manufacturing sectors benefit from NautaDutilh‘s full-service offering, which enables the team to provide integrated employment, insolvency and tax advice on complex cross-border M&A, corporate reorganisations, and judicial restructurings. In addition to advising on the employee transfer aspects of transactional undertakings, the team handles contentious proceedings arising from collective and individual dismissals as well as from contract disputes. Transactional employment specialist Philippe François leads the team, which is also home to collective bargaining and discrimination expert Thierry Duquesne.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution
- EU regulatory: Financial services
- Insolvency and restructuring
- Intellectual property