Simmons & Simmons

Employment

Dimitri heads the employment & benefits department for Belgium. He specializes in employment law and provides advice to a wide range of clients, finding solutions to their most complex legal challenges and he has an extensive experience in all sectors, including Financial Institutions, Life Sciences, TMT and Energy and Infrastructure. His main areas of expertise are labour law and social security law, with a specific focus on the employment law aspects of corporate restructuring, transfer of undertakings, flexible work arrangements, and privacy at the workplace.

Dimitri also advises regularly on remuneration packages for executives, employee benefits schemes, and employment contracts. He provides strategic advice regarding labour union relations within companies and business-critical issues.

Dimitri is known on the market as a pragmatic and to the point lawyer who always focuses on the legal and economic interests of the company.

Before joining the firm in 2019, Dimitri was a senior associate at a leading international law firm based in Brussels.

He is a frequent lecturer on employment related topics.

English, Dutch and French

Dimitri is also a member of the disciplinary commission of the Belgian Horse Federation.

2017-2017: INSEAD, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Corporate Finance

2010-2011: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Master's degree, Labour and Social Security Law

2008-2010: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Master's degree, Economic Law