Mrs Corinne Merla > Younity > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

Younity
BOULEVARD DU SOUVERAIN 36 VORSTLAAN
1170 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Work Department

Pensions

Position

Partner

Career

Corinne Merla has been a lawyer at the Brussels Bar since 1996.

Corinne advises a wide range of pension funds, insurance companies and Belgian and international corporations in both the private and public sectors in the fields of statutory and occupational pensions and other providential schemes. Her expertise covers both employment, tax and providential aspects and the legislation governing insurance, pension funds and corporate governance.

She acts as the compliance officer for a number of pension funds.

She has written several reference works on occupational pensions.

Languages

French - Dutch - English

Memberships

Corinne is a member of the IPEBLA (International Pension & Employee Benefit Lawyers Association) and the AJPDS and a founder member of the BePLA (Belgian Pension Lawyers Association).

Education

She holds a licentiate in law from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL, 1995) and an additional licentiate in social law from the University of Brussels (ULB, 1996).

Lawyer Rankings

Belgium > Employment

Offering its clients a comprehensive service across various domains of employment law, boutique firm Younity is particularly reputed for its pensions expertise, advising both corporate and public sector clients on complex pension scheme modifications. Integrated expertise in immigration, employment, and data privacy law further allows the team to advise on TUPE and restructuring undertakings, collective bargaining matters, transactional issues, as well as contentious and non-contentious dismissals. The practice is led by collective bargaining expert Jean-Philippe Cordier and pensions specialist Corinne Merla, and is bolstered by the expertise of managing partner Brecht Cops.