Mr Vincent Wellens > NautaDutilh > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Drawing upon the firm’s strong banking, IP and TMT offerings, NautaDutilh is well-placed to advise large financial institutions, challengers and service providers across a range of fintech projects, compliance and advisory work. IP practitioner Vincent Wellens is ‘business-oriented, passionate and smart’ and co-heads the de facto fintech team alongside banking head Josée Weydert.

Led by Vincent Wellens, who is ‘very experienced and knowledgeable across both IP and IT’, NautaDutilh‘s ‘knowledgeable and pragmatic’ team provides a ‘high-quality service’ to private and public sector clients in the context of commercial contracts, M&A-related due diligence and litigation. Leveraging vast private practice experience as well as insight derived from his previous in-house role at the historical telecom operator in Luxembourg, Wellens provides a ‘very well rounded’ service which encompasses IT outsourcing (for buyers and vendors), data protection and IP work, including a growing demand among clients for pre-litigation patents advice. Senior associate Sigrid Heirbrant provides ‘pragmatic and to-the-point advice’ to clients in relation to tech, IP and data protection commercial contracts.

The ‘knowledgeable and pragmatic’ team at NautaDutilh provides a ‘high quality service’ to clients across a range of high-stakes commercial litigation and arbitration. As part of the eclectic mix of work, which also includes shareholder and insolvency litigation, the firm regularly handles high-profile investor-state disputes on behalf of both private and public sector entities, most regularly in the context of enforcing the awards which have been granted. Vincent Wellens heads the team and is often involved in contentious IP and IT disputes, as well as public law-related matters. Antoine Laniez left the firm in June 2024.