Liedekerke‘s media and entertainment practice has a strong focus on IP, IT and data protection cases, with the firm handling a variety of advisory, contentious and transactional work at both a national and international level. The firm’s contentious work includes counterfeiting seizures, infringement actions and the implementation of border measures involving customs authorities. Etienne Kairis heads up the practice and frequently wins plaudits for his ability to develop and implement strategies for the protection of intellectual property. Sarah Van Den Brande frequently leverages her expertise in copyright, trade marks and designs to handle contentious work for the likes of the AGICOA group. Bernard Vanbrabant further extends the contentious IP expertise at the firm.
Testimonials
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- 'Liedekerke has a great team of longstanding practitioners with a wealth of industry and court experience. The team has been working together for years making the service seamless.'
- 'Overall they offer great availability and responsiveness. It is a pleasure working with them.'
Key clients
- IMPS
- Agicoa
- VAAAM AG (RYDE GmbH -KodakOne)
- Vlaamse Nieuwsmedia
- Euronews
Work highlights
- Representing the three main Belgian press publishers' alliances in litigation before the Constitutional Court in relation to the action for annulment brought by Meta and Google (Google Ireland and Google LLC).
- Assisting the AGICOA group and its Belgian affiliate with several litigation proceedings against BAVP (Belgian collecting society of producers of audiovisual works), against Telenet, Proximus, Orange, Voo and Brutélé.
- Advising Euronews on its reorganisation and assisting with all the employment law related aspects of the reorganisation.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Etienne Kairis