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Henk Verstraete
Stibbe, Belgium
- Phone+32 2 533 57 35
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Work Department
Tax
Position
Partner
Career
Henk Verstraete specialises in Belgian and international tax law. He focuses on tax advisory, transactional, and litigation work. Henk has extensive experience in a wide range of tax matters involving complex tax litigation, tax advisory work and transfer pricing matters. Henk has a broad expertise in advising on the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs, joint ventures and financing transactions. He has a strong track record in assisting clients in their negotiations with tax authorities and the public prosecutor, and he represents clients before the administrative and judicial courts.
Languages
Dutch, French, English
Memberships
Member of the Tax Institute of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA)
Member of the Tax Practice Council of the International Tax Program at NYU School of Law
Member of the Legal & Taxation Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (Amcham) (2020–present)
Education
Law studies at the University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, United States (1999)
Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1999)
Admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1999
Tax associate in the Brussels office of an international law firm (2000–2008)
Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from the New York University School of Law, United States (2003)
Visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2004–present)
Tax partner in the Brussels office of an independent law firm (2008–2018)
Professor at the Fiscale Hogeschool Brussel (2010–present)
With the Brussels office of Stibbe since 2018
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