Ms Heleen Franco > AKD > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

AKD
5, Place du Champs de Mars
1050 Brussels
Belgium
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Work Department

Employment & Pensions / Data protection & Privacy

Position

Lawyer

Career

Heleen Franco is a lawyer at AKD. She specialises in individual and collective labour law. She regularly advises national and multinational companies on such subjects as reorganisations, individual dismissals, working hours and the employment law aspects of M&A transactions.

Heleen takes a special interest in top-up pension schemes. Pension issues, including the pension law aspects of M&A deals, are another field on which she routinely advises clients.  In 2021, Heleen completed the specialist post-academic course in pension law at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).

In addition, she has gained ample expertise in the area of data protection with a focus on HR.

Heleen was admitted to the Brussels bar in 2015. Before joining AKD, she worked for two other international law firms in Brussels for six years.

Lawyer Rankings

Belgium > Employment

AKD‘s employment team serves a growing base of clients in the Benelux region and abroad and is well versed in transactional matters, handling employee transfers, collective dismissals and closures in connection with corporate M&A and restructuring projects. Team lead Julien Hick is an experienced adviser and litigator who manages collective and individual employment issues and regularly defends clients before labour courts. Heleen Franco is also recommended for corporate employment matters.