Olivier VANDEN BERGHE
Partner

• Commercial Contracts and Litigation
• Insurance and Liability

Recent matters

• Distribution, Commercial Intermediaries and Retail
• Successfully defending a major petrochemical company against a 80M€ claim brought by a foreign reseller of polypropylene as a consequence of a supply stop.
• Representing an airline against a 30M€ claim brought before the courts by a former intermediary for cargo services as a consequence of the termination of the agreement.
• Advising clients in industries such as energy, pharmaceuticals, catering, services, retail, and cosmetics on their expansion through franchising and other distribution methods or on reorienting their current distribution strategy and on related competition law
• issues in relation to exclusivity and retail pricing.
• Representing a major oil and gas company operating high way gas stations under public concession in its litigation against the world leading of operator of highway restaurants.
• Construction and Engineering 
• Representing Belgium’s largest refinery and other affected group companies in the proceedings brought as a consequence of a landslide incident damaging underground (crude oil and gas) pipelines and causing production interruptions and shortages.
• Advising a EU body with regard to the construction/renovation of the building to become its main seat.
• Assisting the main contractor with the construction of a North Sea offshore wind farm, with disputes and financial issues related to unforeseen circumstances occurring during construction.
• Assisting a major oil and gas company in the procurement tendering for the 1 billion euro expansion of its refinery.
• Manufacturing, Supply and Product Liability
• Representing a large oil and gas company against a 30M€ claim brought in relation to the operation of a cogeneration combined heat and power plant.
• Defending the manufacturer of heat tracing material as a consequence of incidents at the end customer's premises in the Antwerp Port.
• Enforcing take or pay agreements for suppliers in the renewable energy field, in the midst of huge price changes on the international market.
• Supporting a manufacturer in the automotive industry in relation to claims caused by a defective raw material batch and in successfully dealing with a product recall threat.
• Providing advice to the participants in a consortium agreement for a European research project in the field of nuclear technology.

Professional memberships

• Editorial Committee Revue de Droit Commercial

Dutch, French, English

• Precontractuele informatie bij commerciële samenwerkingsovereenkomsten, handelsagentuurovereenkomsten, concessies van alleenverkoop?
• Gemeenrechterlijke contractuele clausules
• Les intérêts de retard
• Le régime des intérêts de retard en droit belge
• Contractuele of niet-contractuele aansprakelijkheid van de onderaannemer, 2010
• Exoneratiebedingen in internationale handelscontracten
• Duur en beëindiging van handelscontracten
• Take-or-pay-clausules
• Precontractuele informatie bij commerciële samenwerkingsovereenkomsten, handelsagentuurovereenkomsten, concessies van alleenverkoop?
• Le livre X du nouveau Code de droit économique – ‘Les nouveautés en matière d’information précontractuelle’
• Actualités en droit commercial