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05/02/2012 CLIENT MEMORANDUM BANKING: FINANCIAL REFORM – WHAT’S NEXT IN 2012?

It becomes increasingly difficult to cope with the breadth and speed of financial reform. In the memo attached our Liedekerke Banking Team has tried to provide you with a roundup of the major developments expected to occur in Belgium in 2012.

05/02/2012 CLIENT MEMORANDUM BANKING: FSMA MiFID ACTION PLAN ANNOUNCED

Like in many of our neighboring countries, the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) is taking a more persistent approach in pursuing compliance with MiFID conduct of business. In that regard it has announced a “MiFID Action Plan”.

05/02/2012 TAX LAW: THE NEW ANTI-ABUSE MEASURE

Daniel Garabedian commented on the expected new anti-abuse measure at a seminar held in Brussels on January 26, 2012.

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News highlights

11/10/2011	LIEDEKERKE AND CLEARY LEAD ADVICE AS DEXIA BANK BELGIUM IS BROKEN UP
	Liedekerke corporate partner Thierry Tilquin is assisting the Belgian State and the state owned holding company SFPI in the acquisition of Dexia Bank Belgium in a €4bn deal alongside with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner Laurent Legein who assists the struggling Franco-Belgian bank Dexia.
27/4/2011	CECILE COUNE IN L'ECHO
	L’Echo has decided to dedicate its weekend supplement to « Women with power ».
3/5/2010	THE PRIVATE TRANSFER OF BUSINESSES
	Jacques Malherbe and Patrick della Faille, partners at Liedekerke, recently gave a presentation on the private transfer of businesses, including financing and related fiscal aspects.
30/4/2010	HAKIM BOULARBAH RECEIVES THE LUCIEN CAMPION PRIZE
	Hakim Boularbah, a partner at Liedekerke specialised in litigation, has been awarded the Lucien Campion Prize 2009 for his book - Requête unilatérale et inversion du contentieux - the publication of which was recently announced on our site.
1/3/2010	VAT SEMINAR
	Early 2010, Liedekerke’s Tax Practice Group was invited by the Brussels’ Bar as part of the continuing education programme, to give a lecture on the impact of the new VAT rules for lawyers.
12/2/2010	M&D SEMINAR - « FORMAL RULINGS : LATEST DEVELOPMENTS » - 24 MARCH 2010
	Taxpayers quite often enter into formal and informal agreements with the tax administration. Over the last few years, taxpayers more and more use “formal rulings” as such rulings in principle provide legal certainty.