The ‘highly responsive, highly knowledgeable’ employment and pensions team at AKD provides both day-to-day support and targeted advice regarding the employment elements of restructurings, M&A, and financial regulation. Julien Hick, team head, is ’a brilliant mind’ and a particular go-to for corporate employment matters, with specific experience in the financial services industry and data protection related matters. For pensions work, Heleen Franco is the go-to.
Testimonials
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‘Highly responsive, highly knowledgeable, very easy-going.’
‘Julien Hick is my go-to lawyer for anything employment related in Belgium.’
‘Availability, very high responsiveness, strong listeners, real business enablers, excellent sparring partners, pragmatic approach. What I strongly value is that their client's interests come first.'
‘Julien Hick is a brilliant mind, an excellent sparring partner and business enabler. He truly understands business. His advice is always pragmatic and in the client's best interest. He is always highly responsive and communicates very clearly.’
Key clients
- AG Real Estate
- Medtronic
- CFE Group
- Wasserman
- Securitas
- Louis Delhaize Group
- Spadel
- Ncardia
- Barilla
- Allseas
- Hyundai Merchant Marine
- Marks & Clerk
- Auto1 Group
- Babyliss
- Redevco
- Nuxe
- Socotec
- Dessange
Work highlights
- Assisted Medtronic with a redundancy exercise.
- Assisted an insurance company with the reorganisation of its management committee.
- Assisting a multinational food wholesaler with the redesign of its transport services, including cross-border work issues.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Julien Hick