Offices: Brussels, Belgium

Avenue Louise 250, bte 64
1050 Brussels, Belgium

T: + 32 (0)2 629 42 11
F: + 32 (0)2 629 42 22

Opened: 1990

Introduction

McGuireWoods' Brussels office provides services to Belgian and international clients. As in the firm's other offices, the main focus here is efficiency-driven service associated with competitive legal fees. We have an established network of relationships with counsel in other countries that enables us to offer clients coordinated, reliable and effective representation throughout Europe and elsewhere.


Le bureau de Bruxelles de McGuireWoods rend des services à des clients belges et internationaux. Comme dans les autres bureaux de McGuireWoods, une attention particulière est ici portée à l'efficacité des services prestés et à des honoraires concurrentiels. Grâce à notre réseau de contacts avec des avocats d'autres pays, nous pouvons représenter nos clients dans toute l'Europe et ailleurs de manière coordonnée, fiable et efficace.


McGuireWoods Brussel verleent diensten aan zowel Belgische als internationale cliënten. Zoals in de overige McGuireWoods kantoren, wordt bijzondere aandacht besteed aan efficiënt optreden en aan concurrentiële honoraria. Dankzij ons netwerk met advocatenkantoren uit andere landen, kunnen we cliënten gecoördineerd, betrouwbaar en efficiënt vertegenwoordigen in geheel Europa en daarbuiten.

マグワイヤウッズ法律事務所のブリュッセル事務所はベルギー国内に限らず海外の依頼者の皆様にも法律サービスを提供しています。また、ブリュッセル事務所は、マグワイヤウッズ法律事務所の全ての事務所と同様、法曹界における他の法律事務所にも負けない魅力的な弁護士費用と効率性を重視したサービスを中心にしています。さらに、海外所在の弁護士との確立した連携ネットワークを持ち、ヨーロッパ中、また他の地域においても、依頼者の皆様に、組織的で、信頼できる、効率的な法律業務を遂行することが可能です。マグワイヤウッズではジャパン・プラクティスを専門とする法律部門を有しており、ブリュッセル事務所においても、15年以上にわたり日本企業に関する案件を取り扱っております。

McGuireWoods Brussels

McGuireWoods LLP currently has 900 attorneys in 18 locations worldwide including offices throughout the U.S., London, United Kingdom (opened in 1978), Brussels, Belgium (opened in 1990) and Almaty, Kazakhstan (opened in 1994). In Brussels, the legal staff currently consists of fifteen Belgian, one U.K. and two U.S. attorneys (of which seven are Belgian partners and two U.S. partners). All attorneys are fluent in two or more languages including English, French, Dutch and German.

The Brussels office mainly focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate services (including commercial contracts, corporate finance, labor and corporate social responsibility), and dispute resolution (including in administrative courts). In addition, the office has developed special expertise in real estate and real estate finance, mining (with a focus on francophone Africa), aviation (including ground handling), competition and intellectual property (including copyright, trademarks, domain names, patents, design protection, software law), media and entertainment law (including gaming and gambling law) and information & communications technology (including IT contracts, e-commerce, data protection). The office also serves as a hub for the firm's work in other Western and Eastern European countries, as well as in Africa.

McGuireWoods' Brussels office has also developed, in addition to a traditional business law office in Brussels, a special expertise to serve clients in francophone Central and Western Africa, particularly with respect to mining law and corporate and financing legal matters for mining companies.

The office and its partners have been regularly mentioned as "recommended" by the yearbooks Which Lawyer (formerly Global Counsel 3000) and The European Legal 500 for their corporate/commercial, and mergers and acquisition practices.

Local Presence With Global Reach

Over the past several years, the office has increased its visibility and activities on the Belgian and E.U. markets, serving Belgian-owned companies, foreign-owned Belgian companies, and foreign companies active mainly in Belgium, Western Europe and Africa. The foreign client base comes largely from Western Europe (mainly France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the U.K.), North America (Canada and the United States), Eastern Europe (mainly Bulgaria, Poland and Romania), and Asia (Japan and Kazakhstan).

The Brussels office has also developed a special expertise in francophone Central and Western Africa, where its Belgian partners Hubert André-Dumont and Emmanuel de Cannart d'Hamale have been assisting clients, mainly metal mining companies, for more than 20 years, in particular in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritania, Burundi, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Mali. The services primarily involve legal matters related to mining, corporate, real estate, project financing and related security, construction, environment and labor, generally in conjunction with local counsel and foreign specialized counsel.