In one of the world’s most popular sports, we assisted an athletes’ trade union organization representing the interests of its members (male and female) on a worldwide basis. We submitted a complaint against the global federation of the sport concerned based on the anti-competitive nature of the transfer system. This complaint has allowed our client to sign a landmark agreement with the sports federation to improve worldwide governance in the sport concerned.
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.
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.
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 have successfully assisted commercial teams in negotiating and drafting frame agreements as well individual purchase agreements and change orders on NATO and NATO Nation level.
We have advised Defense, Aerospace, Government and Mobility software vendors on justification grounds and contract wording to qualify for sole source contract awards.
We have successfully brought informal and formal challenges to sole source contract awards to competitors resulting in retendering and/or rescoping of the contracts concerned. This involved representing the complainant in discussions and settlement meetings with the contracting authority.
We have assisted a major US Systems Integrator in bidding on a procurement program, and negotiating the ensuing contract, for the delivery of fregate ships to a European NATO Nation.
We have successfully negotiated licensing terms, IRAD and shared IP agreements on behalf of Belgium-based software companies with various major European and US Systems Integrators.
We have audited the use of FOSS software within a commercially available SDK and have advised on adapting licensing terms and conditions as well as documentation to ensure full FOSS compliance without unduly burdening licensor and licensee commercial operations.
We have successfully assisted commercial teams in negotiating and drafting frame agreements as well individual purchase agreements and change orders on NATO and NATO Nation level.
We have advised on the competition law aspects of prime- and sub-contractors in various bid consortia for national and international tenders. This included the setting up of Chinese Walls, “clean teams”, compliance structures and advising on non-discriminatory pricing strategies.
We have advised various primes and subs bidding on NATO and international defense contracts in optimizing their Background and Foreground IP structure, specifically in relation to use of SDKs, joint developments and FOSS software.
We have assisted a major European holiday park operator in negotiating lease, managed services, outsourcing and joint venture agreements related to the operation of Belgium-based holiday parks.
We have successfully defended the operator of a yachting marina concession against a competitor who applied for annulment of the sole source concession on grounds of failure to organize a market consultation and tender.
