& DE BANDT

& DE BANDT, founded in November 2007, is a fully integrated law firm offering legal services around the unique concept of “full service in the niche®”, specializing in those areas of Belgian and European law that limit or regulate the access to the market and the development of activities in this market. Main areas of expertise are: - Regulatory law (including free movement, public tendering, network industries) - EC and Competition Law (including state aid and and services of general economic interest) - General Commercial and Corporate law - Intellectual Property (copyright, patents, trademarks, design rights) - Law and Technology (IT, Media, internet, R&D) In each of these areas of law, the law firm offers the full package of legal services that are needed to adequately defend and fully develop the core business of the clients (“full service”), i.e. from legal opinions, contract negotiations to high end dispute resolution in Belgium and abroad. The firm offers its services to a broad and very diverse customer base in Europe and elsewhere, ranging from multinationals, over public institutions to small and medium companies, including start ups. Because of the importance of European integration for economic and public actors, & DE BANDT has chosen to locate its offices at walking distance of the EU institutions. The working languages are English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and Romanian