Strelia

Dispute Resolution, Commercial law, Restructuring & Insolvency

Bart De Moor is a partner in our dispute resolution practice and in the restructuring & insolvency practice. He assists and advises clients on litigation and alternative dispute resolution, company law, commercial law, private international law, and secured debt, whether they are complex international issues or local matters. A lot of his work revolve around corporate disputes such as shareholders and directors’ disputes, directors’ liability, and insolvency-related disputes. He also advises clients on reorganisation and insolvency and is regularly appointed by the court as an insolvency practitioner. He was an insolvency practitioner appointed by the court in the reorganisation proceedings of the Belgian airline Sabena, the companies Photo Hall Multimedia and Flamant Group, and in the bankruptcy proceedings of Photo Hall Multimedia and Free Record Shop.

Bart is an accredited mediator in civil and commercial matters, accredited with the Federale Bemiddelingscommissie since 2007. He is an insolvency practitioner, who is admitted to plead before the Brussels Court of Enterprises (Ondernemingsrechtbank/Tribunal de l’entreprise).

Bart is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) and author of numerous books and articles published extensively in legal journals. He is a member of the editorial board of the the legal journal DAOR (Droit des Affaires-OndernemingsRecht), member of Insol Europe and Insol World, and member and co-chair of the Reorganisation and Workouts Subcommittee of the Insolvency Section of the International Bar Association (IBA).

He started his career with Dal & Veldekens and moved to Laga where he was a partner from 2000 until 2009, prior to joining Taylor Wessing as a partner for the departments Company, Civil and Commercial Law Litigation as well as Insolvency and Reconstruction. Bart joined Strelia in July 2015.

Dutch / Frecnh / English

Bart was a member of the Council of the Dutch-speaking Bar of Brussels from 2007 till 2010 and a former delegate of the Brussels Bar at the General Assembly of Flemish Bar Associations from 2008 till 2017.

Bart De Moor is immediate past President of the Brussels Bar (Dutch-speaking section).

Bart De Moor is an active member of the International Bar Association. He is also a member of INSOL Europe and a member of the Council of INSOL Europe.

He studied law at the University of Namur and at the University of Ghent obtaining his law degree in 1986. In 1992, he also obtained a certificate awarding a four-year cycle of courses on the Legal System of the United States, delivered by the University of Georgia and the Brussels Bar. In 1993, Bart obtained a certificate in Health Economics at the University of Antwerp. In 2014, Bart obtained the Certificate “Einführung in das deutsche Recht” awarded by the Deutscher Anwaltverein and the Dutch Bar Association in Brussels.