Baker McKenzie LLP

Lionel joined Baker McKenzie as customs lead in February 2022. He has over 23 years of experience in the field of customs, international trade, excises and energy levy. Lionel is lecturer at the UIA (Antwerp) and ULG (Liege). He is in charge of the customs, excises and international trade course at the Solvay Tax MBA.

In 2023, Lionel was appointed by the Global ICC board as Chair of the ICC Global Customs Valuation Working Group.

Lionel is also chairing the Indirect Taxes subcommittee of AMCHAM BE.

Lionel's Indirect Tax practice team has been recognized as Tier 1 Indirect Tax Team in Belgium by ITR World Tax.

Lionel focuses mainly on Trade & Customs transformation initiatives, Trade & Customs essentials, Trade & Customs processes optimization, Trade & Customs Strategy & Governance and Trade & Customs compliance.

He has extensive knowledge and experience in the field of export control and sanctions, and in assisting companies in reviewing and managing their export control compliance monitoring system. Lionel furthermore has comprehensive knowledge of trade management, compliance and risk technical solutions (e.g., SAP GTS, MIC, Oracle GTM, Conex, Descartes, Streamsoftware, etc.).

Over the course of his career, Lionel has also been heavily involved in the Trade aspects and impacts of the implementation of several trade-related legislations: REACH, CITES, Green Deal (inc. CBAM,..) in the EMEA region.