We successfully represented the Kingdom of Belgium before the Grand Chamber of the EU Court of Justice (Case C-359/16, Altun, EU:C:2018:63) in what is generally considered as a landmark case concerning the EU Member States’ fight against social security and employment fraud. The case has general implications for other types of fraud, e.g. tax or regulatory evasion.
We provided strategic and competition law advice to a National Employment Office regarding the renewal of the agreement concerning the IT system that manages the payments to all unemployed persons in the EU Member State concerned.
Our lawyers have advised a trade union for professional football players of a major EU Member state on EU law matters.
We have successfully defended athletes, in particular in road cycling, in proceedings before national disciplinary bodies relating to violation of anti-doping regulations. This specifically involved the scope of ATUs.
We have represented a Pro Tour cycling team against various European organizers of cycling competitions regarding a ban on the team on grounds of alleged illegality of its sponsor. This also included the coordination of litigation teams in Belgium, France, Netherlands and Italy.
We have advised on strategies to comply with GDPR requirements in the framework of sales, marketing and prospecting operations in a Business-to-Business and Business-to-Government context.
We have acted as part of a legal taskforce that had to assess all consumer protection and trade practices legislationapplying to the purchase of VOD subscriptions and ensuing in-app or in-session purchases. This also involved collaboration with design and marketing teams to come to a compliant ordering and purchase handling process.
Our lawyers have assisted various gaming companies and sector federations in drafting complaints on national gaming and sports wager legislation infringing the EU internal market freedoms, inter alia in relation to Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. This also involved formal and informal meetings with the relevant services of the European Commission.
We were part of the lead team representing a major European broadcaster before the EU Court of First Instance (now General Court) in matters related to the financing of public service broadcasters.
We have advised a publishing house on the scope of its exploitation contracts with authors and illustrators and the contractual ability to make derivative works and audiovisual productions of the initial works.
We advised a Eurasian Nation on the implementation of the e-commerce Directive into national law, in particular the rules on liability for ISPs. This included the actual drafting of the proposed implementation bill, including provisions on liability for copyright violations.
We represented the Kingdom of Belgium before the EU Court of Justice in Case C-645/19 (Facebook Ireland a.o.) in what is one of the first cases concerning GDPR (and more specifically the one stop shop mechanism).
We successfully defended a website owner against the Flemish Government on alleged grounds of trademark and copyright infringement, relating both to the content of the website and to the alleged unlawful registration of a domain name.
Members of our team have been involved in ISP liability litigation, representing Belgian ISPs on various instances against copyright societies and individual rights holders. We have for instance successfully led the defense in court of an ISP qualifying as hosting provider against a request for takedown and staydown measure that was akin to a general monitoring obligation. We have also been involved in the Belgian court proceedings brought by a copyright society against an ISP qualifying as mere conduit provider applying for the implementation of filtering and surveillance software, which ultimately led to a successful preliminary ruling of the European Court of Justice.
We have defended an operator of a chain of sport-related theme cafés on grounds of operating an unlicensed sports wagering establishment.
