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Roel FRANSIS
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Roel Fransis is a Partner in the Banking and Finance Practice Group. He specialises in banking and (international) insolvency law. He advises national and international clients and has extensive experience in litigation in these fields.
He holds a law degree (2005) and a PhD in Law (Contractual subordination of claims in insolvency law, 2013) from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is a researcher at the Institute for Commercial and Insolvency Law of the University of Leuven. He is author of many publications in the field of insolvency law, and is a regular speaker at national and international insolvency law conferences. He is a member of Insol Europe, Insol Europe Academic Forum and the Netherlands Association for Comparative and International Insolvency Law (NACIIL).
He joined Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick in 2005 and became partner in 2014.
RECENT MATTERS
- Roel provided an expert opinion to the English Companies Court in respect of the recognition and enforcement in Belgium of a € 700 million English scheme of arrangement pertaining to a European listed technical services provider in the fields of electrical solutions, ICT and mechanical solutions
- Roel handles supreme court cases in civil law and insolvency law
Dutch, French, English
- Headline Banking & Finance - Belgian Supreme Court decision on differential treatment of creditors
- Recente (cassatie)rechtspraak inzake zakelijke zekerheden en insolventieprocedures
- Report for Belgium. Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law
- National Report for Belgium
- Gedifferentieerde behandeling van schuldeisers in het reorganisatieplan: een privaatrechtelijke toets aan het verbod op rechtsmisbruik
- Artikel 38 Pandwet
- Artikel 37 Pandwet
- Achterstelling van schuldvorderingen in het insolventierecht<
- Bankruptcy protection for Belgian enterprises
- Liedekerke assisting with ground-breaking Virtual Court Trial
- Roel Fransis speaker at M&D Seminars
- Enforcement actions of collateral by creditors under bankruptcy and judicial reorganisation proceedings
- Roel Fransis speaker at launch event Tijdschrift voor Insolventie- en Beslagrecht
- Doing business in Belgium: New legal regime regarding insolvencies
- New developments insolvency law
- Banking & Finance Headlines: Doing Business in Belgium - Taking security over movable assets
- Roel Fransis speaker on the enforcement and realisation of a pledge under the new Act on Security Rights on Movable Assets
- Roel Fransis speaker on the enforcement and realisation of a pledge under the new Act on Security Rights on Movable Assets
- Banking & Insolvency Headlines - New rules for the filing of claims in bankruptcy proceedings in Belgium
- Achterstelling: verbintenisrechtelijke aspecten
- Headlines Banking & Finance (Insolvency) - Februari 2016
- Roel Fransis is a speaker at the 5th annual Max Planck PostDoc Conference on European Private Law.
- Liedekerke appoints Roel Fransis as Banking and Finance Partner
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T: +32 2 551 15 15 - F: +32 2 551 14 14
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