Mr Pierre De Pauw > NautaDutilh > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

NautaDutilh
CHAUSSÉE DE LA HULPE, 120
1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium

Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Counsel

Career

Pierre De Pauw is a counsel with the firm and a member of NautaDutilh’s Financial Services Regulation Team. He specialises in banking and finance as well as corporate and securities law, with a particular focus on the regulatory aspects of banking and financial services, M&A in the financial sector, clearing and settlement systems and financial litigation.

Pierre advises Belgian and foreign financial institutions, including banks, insurance and reinsurance companies, investment firms, payment and e-money institutions, funds and CSDs, in both domestic and cross-border transactions. He assists clients with all aspects of prudential supervision, including licensing applications, corporate governance matters, compliance, crisis management and dealings with the regulators.

Pierre is admitted to the Brussels Bar. He has been a teaching assistant in corporate law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and publishes regularly on selected topics of financial law. He was seconded to Euroclear UK & Ireland in London for the first half of 2018. He joined NautaDutilh in 2013.

Languages

French, English, Dutch

Education

Pierre received his master’s degree in law from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in 2012 and earned an LLM in European Economic and Financial Law from KU Leuven (KUL) in 2013. During his studies, he participated in the Erasmus Belgica programme at the University of Antwerp and in the International Business Law LLM course at Birmingham City University (United Kingdom) in the framework of the Erasmus exchange programme.

Lawyer Rankings

Belgium > EU regulatory: Financial services

(Rising stars)

Pierre De PauwNautaDutilh

NautaDutilh provides ‘nuanced advice’ on prudential supervision matters, provision of financial services in Belgium, corporate governance and compliance matters, and implementation of new legislation to an enviable client roster spanning all types of regulated institutions in the financial sector. The firm also has experience in advising a regulatory body active in Belgium on draft legislation. ‘Absolutely reliable’ practice head Anne Fontaine is particularly noted for her expertise in central securities depositories and securities settlement systems. Pierre De Pauw, who was promoted to local partner in April 2024, supports Fontaine on key mandates.