Our skills

Our team continues to pursue its development to in order to provide you with the best service.

Our firm boasts in-depth expertise in various domains of law.

Our obligation is to keep ourselves informed on a daily basis to supply you with our skills in the following sectors:

• Administration of persons and property

  Administration of persons and property

  Today, there are two protection schemes which vulnerable individuals, their family or entourage may choose.
  This choice also depends on the capacities of the person in question.
  

  • Extra-judicial protection: the individual organises the protection scheme himself or herself by mandating the person of his or her choice.
  • Legal protection: the vulnerable individual entrusts the competent justice of the peace with organising tailor-made legal protection.

  Our law firm possesses property administrator lawyers who are authorised to perform deeds concerning the property and individual of the person placed under temporary administration or extended minor status. We can offer you advice on the various possible protection schemes.

• Civil and commercial leases

  Civil and commercial leases

  Our lawyers are dedicated to helping you with:

  • Drafting commercial or civil leases.
  • Rent adjustment.
  • Any eviction problems.
  • Failure to respect obligations by both the lessor and owner.
  • etc ….

  The APMLAW firm can provide you with its expert skills in civil and commercial lease law.

  Civil lease law

  A civil lease or residential lease concerns the contractual relations between the owner of a building (the lessor) and the tenant (the lessee) of a residential building.

  Drafting of the lease agreement, its interpretation and renewal can give rise to conflicts between the two parties.

  Whether it concerns unpaid rent, work at the owner’s or tenant’s expense, failure to refund the lease deposit, you can call upon a lawyer to defend your rights.

  Commercial lease law

  This type of lease concerns the leasing of a property to a company, a business or a craftsperson. Its rules are very complex and are broadly interpreted by the courts to resolve disputes.

  Drafting commercial leases allows considerable flexibility for professional traders. Our law firm assists you with drafting your commercial lease agreement, helps you to anticipate and supplies you with the best advice. The commercial lease affects the obligations of the lessee and the lessor throughout the duration of the lease.

• Commercial contracts and commercial distribution

  Commercial contracts and commercial distribution

  Commercial contracts and distribution contracts are extremely varied under Belgian law.

  The notion of distribution covers all physical and legal operations that contribute to the commercialisation of products to distributors or end users.

  Our specialist lawyers are ready to help you with any questions you may have related to these contracts:

  • Brokerage contracts
  • Commission contracts
  • Commercial agency contracts
  • Dealership contracts
  • Franchise contracts

• Administrative law

  Administrative law

  Our firm is active in the sector of administrative law which regulates the action of the executive branch and decentralised authorities. The law of the State taking action and transforming the law into concrete results applied in the field, is public service law.

  Our lawyers can assist you with resolving your administrative litigation, as well as focusing on how to prevent and solve your disputes with the authorities.

  We not only assist federal, regional and community administrative authorities, but also local or supra-local authorities (municipalities, provinces and inter-communal structures).

  We have broad range of competences in these various fields:

  • Civil service law
  • General administrative law and general public law.
  • Processing of personal data.
  • Expropriation law.
  • Public finance law.

• Construction, urban planning and environmental law

  Construction, urban planning and environmental law

  Whether you are an entrepreneur, architect or contracting authority, you will be faced with a multitude of legal issues: drafting of contracts, permit issues, tax structures, environmental issues linked to the use of real estate property, disputes, ten-year warranty, misfeasance, etc.

• Insurance and liability law

  Insurance and liability law

  The relations between insured parties and their insurers raise significant legal questions which particularly involve the examination of their insurance contract (or insurance policy). Such documents specify the guarantees offered by the insurer and the limits of the coverage it offers.

• Property law

  Property law

  Property law covers all the questions concerning the rights of an individual over a movable or immovable asset. The issues of possession, property, renting, etc. are covered by this area of law for which our team can provide you with specialist lawyers.

• Law concerning businesses in difficulty (liquidation, bankruptcy and legal re-structuring)

  Law concerning businesses in difficulty (liquidation, bankruptcy and legal re-structuring)

  Analysis of accounts, financial losses, losses carried forward, etc.
  All companies are subject to market risk. Faced with such difficulties, suitable legal help can enable the company to recover or avoid any pitfalls.

  Anticipation of such difficulties and implementation of legal measures will help to ensure business continuity for a company under threat.

  Legal monitoring will also help to prevent possible liability claims against the company’s senior management.

• Law and new information technologies

  Law and new information technologies

  Copyright, brands, industrial design rights, patents, know-how and business secrets, domain names, corporate names, trade names, company names and logos… All of these elements allow you to protect the fruits of your labour.

  To make an informed choice of the most useful way to protect the creation of your name, insightful legal advice is necessary.

• Corporate law

  Corporate law

  From the birth (creation) to the death of a company, including all other stages, such as increases in capital, mergers, transfer of shares, day-to-day management, etc., corporate law punctuates the existence of your business. A failure to respect legislation opens the door to many risks, both for the company and its people.

• Employment law

  Employment law

  Relations between employees and employers are governed by employment law. Whether it concerns protection of employees or employers, redundancies, benefits in kind, etc., before taking action, it is better to consult your lawyer.

• Family law and individual law

  Family law and individual law

  Our team can assist you with all types of family disputes: divorce proceedings, separations, parental authority, accommodation and custody of children, child support, filiation, domestic and international adoptions.

  We also work on disputes related to family heritage: liquidation of matrimonial property, gifts, donations, successions.

  Our team specialised in family law is at your disposal to advise you and support you throughout these various procedures.

• Tax law

  Tax law

  How companies and their shareholders are taxed is certainly one of the keys to their success. In an era of regulatory instability, it is crucial to be able to implement a durable tax strategy to make it a tool for security and optimisation.

  We assist our clients, investment funds and businesses, with their structuring or re-structuring, and have specific experience in the field of tax on property transactions and takeover or divestiture operations.

• Criminal law

  Criminal law

  Whether the victim or the accused, irrespective of the case in hand, our team boasts specialised lawyers ready to support you and defend your interests throughout the proceedings, ranging from questioning by the police, an examining magistrate and hearings in judges’ chambers to pleas before the criminal court.

• Public contracts

  Public contracts

  Public law covers all the interactions between economic players and the public authorities.

  It is central to the 100,000 public contracts every year that amount to 80 billion euros. More broadly, it is the basis for whole sectors of our economy with all the regulated professions and activities (energy, health, agriculture, security, etc.).

  Lastly, public law is at the heart of construction and town and country planning operations. The respect of urban planning, the environment, safety, accessibility or also major trade balances is ensured by the public authorities who, each year, grant permits amounting to thirty-eight million square metres.

• Civil, family and commercial mediation

  Civil, family and commercial mediation

  If you need civil, family or commercial mediation, our firm has a certified mediator who will attempt, in cooperation with you, to find the fair outcome to your dispute.

  Our firm also assists you during the mediation in order to promote your position, defend your interests and to reach an agreement together.