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Stefaan Loosveld

Position
Partner
Career
Stefaan is the managing partner of the Belgian offices of Linklaters and also heads their Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations practice. His work focuses on multidisciplinary cross-border investigations (including regulatory and white-collar), with an emphasis on EU financial and supervisory law, EU AML and EU sanctions legislation. He further often acts in multijurisdictional banking and finance disputes, including in regulatory procedures involving EU and national financial supervisory authorities. Through this work, he is very familiar with the interplay between European and national law rules, including in relation to the relevance of EU law and fundamental rights in regulatory investigations and compliance proceedings. Stefaan has also extensively worked on banking restructurings in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis for key Benelux, French and German financial institutions, and has been significantly involved in sovereign debt restructuring work, including in the wake of the 2010-2011 eurozone debt crisis. He is finally at the forefront of a number of strategic EU thought-leadership initiatives, such as on EU AML and sanctions, on the changing European banking landscape, and on EU regulatory and institutional developments.
Legal500 lists Stefaan as leading individual for Dispute Resolution in Belgium, highlighting his expertise in contentious regulatory. Stefaan is currently based in Brussels but has previously worked in the New York and London offices of Linklaters. He has also worked for a number of years as Senior Legal Counsel at the European Central Bank (Financial Law Division). He has degrees in both law and economics, and is admitted to the Brussels Bar (current) and New York Bar (past).
Stefaan is the author of a book entitled Money, monetary claims and foreign exchange. Belgian, European and international perspective (Brussels, Larcier, 2007, 418 p.) as well as of numerous articles in law reviews and books (see Section “Published works”). He regularly gives his expert view in the international media on issues of topical interest, such as, for instance, on EU developments in the area of AML, on the aftermath of the financial crisis and the eurozone debt crisis, and on sovereign default. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on a variety of topics, such as corporate accountability and governance, compliance and crisis management.
Please visit the Linklaters website for more details of Stefaan Loosveld and his work in this category: https://www.linklaters.com/en/find-a-lawyer/stefaan-loosveld
Languages
Dutch, French, English and German
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Dispute resolution
(Leading partners)Linklaters boast a ‘highly motivated team that excels in knowledge, experience and availability’, with expertise across multiple areas, including financial markets, consumer protection, intellectual property, and regulatory frameworks. The practice is adept at handling fraud and white-collar crime cases, as well as ESG litigation. Leading the team are Stefaan Loosveld, Xavier Taton, and Florence Danis, who is ‘simply excellent and the one you want to defend your case’.
Belgium > Fraud and white-collar crime
Distinguished by its sector-led approach, the litigation, arbitration and investigations practice at Linklaters acts for domestic and international corporate entities in investigations and proceedings related to numerous matters in the field of white-collar crime. Stefaan Loosveld specialises in litigation and contentious restructuring and insolvency, leading the team alongside Xavier Taton, who handles various business criminal law and regulatory matters for clients in the financial and energy sectors, and experienced litigator Florence Danis.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Belgium > Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution Belgium
- Fraud and white-collar crime Belgium
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