Stibbe

Tax

Partner

Henk Verstraete specialises in Belgian and international tax law. He focuses on tax advisory, transactional, and litigation work.
Henk has extensive experience in a wide range of tax matters involving complex tax litigation, tax advisory work and transfer pricing matters. Henk has a broad expertise in advising on the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs, joint ventures and financing transactions. He has a strong track record in assisting clients in their negotiations with tax authorities and the public prosecutor, and he represents clients before the administrative and judicial courts.

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• Member of the Tax Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA)
• Member of the Tax Practice Council of the International Tax Program at NYU School of Law
• Member of the Legal & Taxation Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (Amcham) (2020–present)

• Law studies at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, United States (1999)
• Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1999)
• Admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1999
• Tax associate in the Brussels office of an international law firm (2000–2008)
• Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from the New York University School of Law, United States (2003)
• Visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2004–present)
• Tax partner in the Brussels office of an independent law firm (2008–2018)
• Professor at the Fiscale Hogeschool Brussel (2010–present)
• With the Brussels office of Stibbe since 2018