Ms Emilie Van Goidsenhoven > Tiberghien > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

Tiberghien
AVENUE DU PORT 86C/419
1000 BRUSSELS
Belgium

Work Department

Tax

Position

Partner

Career

Emilie is a partner at Tiberghien. She advises Belgian and foreign High Net Worth individuals and (their) family businesses on direct taxation, international mobility and (inter)national estate planning.

Her practice regarding family businesses includes, next to her tax expertise, the setting up of the appropriate corporate and/or family governance to insure the right balance between the families and their businesses. She is also a certified family mediator.

Emilie has more than 15 years of experience, thorough expertise and a large professional network in French-Belgian tax matters, especially real estate investments, migration of HNWI’s and estate planning.

Emilie is president of the Estate Planning Skill Group (EPSG) and co-responsable for the French-Belgian branch of the Estate Planning Skill Group (Paris-Bruxelles-Lille).

Languages

French, Dutch, English.

Memberships

Member of the Brussels Bar.
Family mediator since 2015 (Federal Mediation Commission).
President of the Estate Planning Skill Group and co-responsable of the Group ‘Paris-Bruxelles-Lille’ of the Estate Planning Skill Group (http://epsg.international).
Co-author of the Tiberghien Tax Law Manual since 2009.

Education

EHSAL Management School (Advisor Family Businesses, 2016).
KU Leuven (Postgraduate Mediation, specialization family mediation, 2015).
KU Leuven (Master in Tax Law, 2008).
Vrije Universiteit Brussel/ Université Libre de Bruxelles (Postgraduate Estate Planning, 2008).
KU Leuven (Master in Law, 2007).

Lawyer Rankings

Belgium > Tax

(Next Generation Partners)

Emilie Van Goidsenhoven – Tiberghien

Tiberghien, a boutique firm fielding a ‘very technical and sharp tax team’, advises family-owned businesses, multinationals, start-ups, financial institutions and private clients, with longstanding experience of the Belgian market. It also offers civil law and transfer pricing expertise, alongside its corporate tax, estate planning, VAT, and tax litigation workload. The team is co-headed by partners Koen Morbée, Robin Minjauw, Emilie Van Goidsenhoven, and Griet Vanden Abeele. Morbée is a go-to for corporate clients; this is also an area of expertise for Minjauw and Bernard Peeters. Van Goidsenhoven and Vanden Abeele regularly advise at the intersection of estate planning and tax. The team often handles international tax matters, where Ahmed El Jilali is a key name.