Altius

About this office:

ALTIUS is one of the largest independent law firms in Belgium. We assist companies in their international and Belgian transactions and litigation. We also act as day-to-day counsel for many Belgian companies and subsidiaries of multinationals. Our team consists of 55 excellent lawyers with both local expertise and international ambition. For all tax related matters, ALTIUS maintains an operational relationship with tax firm TIBERGHIEN. ALTIUS and TIBERGHIEN have together some 110 lawyers.

For all tax matters, ALTIUS works closely with Belgian Tax Firm Tiberghien (www.tiberghien.com).

General and International Law Practice, General Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking and Finance, Employment Law, Telecommunications, Information Technology, E-commerce, Pharmaceuticals and Life Sciences, Commercial Litigation, Insurance, Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Environmental Law, Public and Administrative Law, Media and Entertainment Law, Sports Law.

Belgian Council of State pierces the veil of a PPP project
William Timmermans, December 30, 2009
In the Horizon Pleiades case, the Council of State was confronted with an interesting question: if a public authority organises a procedure to select its partner for a PPP company, which will perform works or services which would normally be covered by the Procurement Directives, does the selection...

Belgian Procurement Law becomes more compliant
William Timmermans, December 30, 2009
On 23 April 2009, the ECJ held that Belgium did not properly transpose Procurement Directive 2004/18 into national law (case C-292/07). In fact, Belgium already has new procurement Acts (dating from 15 and 16 June 2006) but they have not entered into force, because the new Royal Decrees...

ECJ holds that a single award procedure is sufficient for IPPPs
William Timmermans, December 30, 2009
The Acoset judgment of the ECJ dated 15 October 2009 (C-196/08) was related to a dispute about an institutionalised public-private partnership (IPPP). A local authority wanted to grant a concession to a newly-created semi-public company, whose minority shareholder would be a private company...

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