CMS Belgium

For over 30 years, we have been advising local and international businesses operating in Belgium as well as a large number of public sector actors. Today, we have become one of the country’s leading firms, with about 100 lawyers, of which 22 partners, working out of offices in Brussels, Antwerp and Luxembourg.

Clients appreciate our entrepreneurial and team spirit as well as the strong relationships we build with them. We believe that lawyers need to understand their clients’ business to provide to-the-point, inventive legal and tax advice. We work efficiently and our fees and arrangements are transparent and clear. That is why clients regularly trust us with the most delicate and complex cases.

Our teams assist clients across a wide range of expert practice and sector areas including: Banking & Finance, Commercial, Competition, Consumer products, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Energy, Funds, Hotels & Leisure, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Lifesciences/Pharmaceuticals, Private Clients, Private Equity, Public Law, Public Procurement & PPP, Real Estate & Construction, Tax and TMT.

Recent Firm News & Legal Updates

Belgium
September 19, 2024

"Be present in meetings and be active in the groups. Even though technology allows members to communicate using various IT or telecom tools, physical presence and relationships are still the source of success, as this is the only way to create trust."
Wlg | Impact Belgium
August 22, 2024

For the 3rd year running, CMS Belgium has been awarded a silver medal by Ecovadis, improving its ESG performance with an overall score of 70%. Ecovadis analyses the performance of companies according to their environmental, social, ethical and sustainable purchasing engagements and results.
Wlg | Impact
May 31, 2023

During WLG | impact '23 CMS Belgium has been granted a silver medal from Ecovadis.
Belgium
May 2, 2023

The Belgian Competition Authority recently examined the sustainability initiative of IDHTransforming Markets and certain large retail chains to promote living wages in the banana sector under competition law. The initiative in question aims to limit the gap between actual wages and living wages in the banana sector, and concerns fresh bananas...
Belgium
March 23, 2023

Following an enquiry initiated in 2017 and dawn raids carried out the same year, the Competition College of the Belgian Competition Authority concluded on 13 April 2022 its investigation into illegal exchanges of confidential commercially sensitive information via wholesalers and imposed a total of 36 million EUR of fines on four cigarette...

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