Europe - Belgium

Deloitte

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The real estate practice at Deloitte Legal is ‘very professional, reactive and commercial, with a high knowledge sector’. The firm majors on property sales and real estate M&A, a recent example being the €78m forward acquisition on behalf of the Dutch government of a long lease on a new Belgian and EU embassy building in Brussels. Practice head Maximilien Van De Werve , who handles the lion’s share of the work, has ’very good technical and practical knowledge‘. Tax partner Danny Stas and corporate partner David Roelens are also key to the practice.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Very good team! Maximillien van de Werve is the key man.'
  • ‘Very good competencies.’

  • ‘Some people in the team are very well introduced in the local real estate market which makes they are very well aware of the market dynamic.’

  • ‘Very professional, reactive, commercial (thinking as and with the business), multilingual, accessible/available and complementary team with a high knowledge of the real estate sector/market.’

  • ‘The advice is tailor made and taking the business of its client into high consideration (no academical lawyers). ’

  • 'Combination of strong partner (Max Van de Werve), senior associate and junior associate.'
  • 'Very good technical and practical knowledge, hands-on, respect of timings.'

Key clients

  • AXA REIM
  • Candor
  • Ciril
  • Dassault Real Estate
  • Ethias
  • Global Estate Group
  • Global Rental Properties
  • HIH Warburg
  • ION
  • Kellogg’s
  • State of the Netherlands
  • Nextensa
  • ODTH
  • Redevco
  • SoGent
  • Triple Living
  • University of Leuven
  • Van Roey
  • VDD Project Development
  • Xior

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Maximilien van de Werve

Other key lawyers

David Roelens, Kathleen De Hornois