Janson

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Partner

Cédric Alter joined Janson as a partner in September 2007 and co-leads the firm's Insolvency law team.

Cédric has gained significant experience in insolvency law, business law and contract law working for both Belgian and foreign clients.

He also regularly acts in judicial and arbitration proceedings (as counsel or arbitrator), and is a member of the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation (CEPANI and CCI).

Cédric is professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management at the ULB for the Business Law course. He is also co-president of the CAP Network, which brings together insolvency professionals, and secretary of the Insolvency section of the International Bar Association.

References

• Mediator for the holding company of a major bakery and restaurant chain in order to negotiate an amicable agreement with the holding company's creditors to finance the restructuring, define the scope of a possible transfer, prepare a multi-jurisdictional data-room and search for candidates
• Acting as court appointed trustee for a judicial liquidation procedure of a group of companies with several million of assets in real estate in Belgium
• Advising Belgian directors and UK mother company on bankruptcy and closures of shops inBelgium
• Advising mother company on the closure of a Belgian entity of the group
• Representing two banks as creditor of a Belgian company in judicial restructuring, regarding inter alia the sale of two shopping center real estate projects and the restructuring plan to its creditors
• Advising and representing an outlet company with 200+ employees in Belgium and 23 shops for a procedure for judicial restructuring by transfer under judicial supervision with a view to maintaining all or part of the transferor or its activities. Advising also the directors in post-restructuring litigations
• Advising a Belgian director of a Belgian company for the nomination of a court appointed directors to protect the company against other (foreign) directors and shareholders. Advising the debtor in subsequent procedure for judicial restructuring by transfer under judicial supervision
• Representing the four majors banks in Belgium as creditors to safeguard their interests in the procedure for judicial restructuring by transfer under judicial supervision undertaken by the debtor
• Advising court appointed trustees for a Belgian subsidiary in a litigation against the (American) mother company regarding, inter alia, enforcement of a comfort letter

09/2007 - ...: Partner - Janson 2012 - ...: Professor of business law, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management 07/2005 - 07/2007: Lawyer (Special European Counsel) - Willkie Farr & Gallagher 02/2002 - 07/2005: Lawyer - Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 06/1996 - 02/2002: Lawyer - Stibbe

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01/2020 - ...: Secretary of the Insolvency section at the International Bar Association (IBA) 01/2017 - ...: Co-president of the CAP Network

07-08/1995: Summer School in English Legal Methods, University of Cambridge (scholarship awarded by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation) 1990 - 1995: Law degree, Université Libre de Bruxelles (magna cum laude)