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Filip De Schouwer

Mobius Business Law

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Position: Managing partner
Rating:
  • Notable practitioner
Bar Admissions:
Antwerp
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Consumer goods and services
Media
Languages:
Dutch
English
French
Biography

Filip De Schouwer, managing partner, practises corporate law (including mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings), real estate and general commercial and contract law for both local and international clients.

Filip is one of Belgium’s leading lawyers in the hospitality and media industries, doing both domestic and international work for major hotel groups, catering groups and media conglomerates.

Recent transactional highlights

•  Acting for Autogrill on various M&A transactions;

• Acting for Potemkino in financing a major film production;

• Acting for Martin’s Hotels in several hotel transactions;

• Acting for the Flemish Government in negotiating a crucial IAAS agreement with top player in security solutions in Belgium.

Practice areas

• Corporate Law

• Commercial Law

• Real Estate

Sector specialisations

• Hotel and catering

• Media and publishing

Bar admissions

Antwerp

Association memberships

Board member of SKaGen (a professional theater company)

Member of the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Flanders

Academic qualifications

Leuven University (KUL, 1998)

Exchange program at Northwestern University, Chicago (1997)

LLM at Cambridge University, Trinity Hall (1999)

Address:
Antwerp
Tel:+32 486 97 95 66 Email:Contact this practitioner