Belgium: M&A/Private Equity

The European Commission is advancing a comprehensive simplification agenda for EU corporate taxation while simultaneously withdrawing proposals that lack political consensus. As negotiations on the next Multiannual Financial Framework intensify and digital taxation debates resurface, businesses face a recalibration of how tax policy supports EU objectives in practice.

The BCA has designated five priority sectors for 2026 — agri-food, digitalization and telecommunications, healthcare, basic services (including regulated professions...

The Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) has published its priorities paper for 2026, setting out its enforcement priorities and strategic initiatives for the coming year.

Global investment in AI surged to approximately USD 252 billion in 2024, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2014. As AI technologies become deeply embedded across key economic sectors such as finance...

Our Corporate and M&A Team, in close collaboration with Jurimesh, had the pleasure of publishing a short blogpost on the risks of a term sheet and its impact on the long form agreement.

Although its anticipated level of activity slowed down, the Belgian economy has proved to be more resilient than expected with GDP growth of 1.3% in 2023 thanks to robust private consumption...

The New Criminal Code overhauls the provisions dedicated to punishable participation. One of the key features of the new system is that it no longer makes a distinction between co-perpetrators

After an initial start-up phase for the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) in which we saw the European Commission (EC) targeting foreign bidders in public tender procedures, the EC's Directorate...

Almost a year has passed since the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) became applicable on 12 July 2023. The notification obligations kicked in 3 months later.