Mr Stijn Debaene > Fieldfisher > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile
Fieldfisher Offices
L'ARSENAL, BOULEVARD LOUIS SCHMIDT, 29
1040 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Mr Stijn Debaene
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Stijn is a partner in the intellectual property department of Fieldfisher’s Brussels office.
Career
For more than 15 years, Stijn has been litigating cases in all areas of intellectual property law (copyrights, trademarks and patents) in a variety of sectors but with a particular focus on the media and telecom industries.
Stijn’s team’s IP litigation clients range from small designers like La Fille d’O, over major entertainment production companies like Studio 100 to BEL 20 companies like Telenet or multinationals like Vitra.
For these and other clients Stijn and his team have been involved in several landmark cases like the Telenet / United Video Properties patent litigation case which went up to the Court of Justice of the European Union “ECJ”). (C-57/15).
Besides the IP litigation practice, Stijn and his team have also built a nice sports law practice, which has led them to represent professional football players and cyclists before a wide variety of national and international arbitration panels. They are also active on the transactional front and have, for example, negotiated Marouane Fellaini’s transfer to his current Chinese club or TV rights deals with the Premier League.
Languages
Dutch, French, English, Spanish, Italian
Education
He has attended four universities in four different languages. He accomplished his Bachelor at the Université de Namur, his Master at the Catholic University of Leuven (including one Erasmus year at the Università degl Studi di Siena in Italy) and an LL.M at Columbia University School of Law?
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Industry focus: IT and telecoms
Fieldfisher‘s broad offering covers assistance with outsourcings, technology procurements, cloud computing issues and the commercialisation of new technologies. The ‘ pragmatic and compliant’ team is also competent in the area of IT disputes, handling matters ranging from mediation to litigation. The ‘hands-on’ Tim Van Canneyt jointly leads the practice alongside IP expert Stijn Debaene and French-qualified lawyer Olivier Proust. Van Canneyt’s practice extends to IT contract negotiation and litigation, while Proust excels in mandates with a privacy dimension. Hakim Haouideg and Nathalie Poupaert are further names to note.
Belgium > Intellectual property
(Leading individuals)With longstanding experience of representing clients before both the Belgian courts and the European Court of Justice, Fieldfisher‘s team is well positioned to handle issues ranging from design rights, to patents to database rights. Stijn Debaene heads up the practice and is geared to assist clients from the media and telecoms industries with a wide range of IP mandates. Experienced IP litigator Hakim Haouideg‘s practice incorporates technology disputes including unfair trade practices and domain name disputes. Serge Flecijn further extends the patent and trade mark expertise at the firm’s Brussels base.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Belgium > Intellectual property
- Industry focus: IT and telecoms Belgium
- Intellectual property Belgium