Aviation

Our Aviation practice covers the full range of legal services in the Aviation sector. The lawyers of the team, who all have worked in an international firm, have a horizontal view on the Aviation clients’ issues: their expertise is not limited to certain specific legal domains, they can assist with a whole range of matters related to the Aviation sector. The practice delivers seamless efficient answers to the clients’ problems and questions, based on thorough knowledge of their businesses, combined with high standard legal skills.

The work concerns assistance of airlines and airline associations, more generally operators of aircraft including unmanned aircraft, groundhandling service providers, airports, aircraft maintenance service providers, charter companies, broker companies, security service providers, leasing companies, manufacturers, and authorities. It concerns litigation as well as commercial and regulatory advice. We assist clients under Belgian law, EU law and international law, and in several countries. Our lawyers have a proven track record of landmark litigation cases showing our market understanding, which in addition to legal knowledge entails economic and political understanding, and often also operational and technical understanding. The firm aims to provide solutions that take into account the clients’ full environment, rather than provide mere legal analyses.

The firm assists with contracts with travel agents, general sales agents, groundhandlers, airport operators, and represents carriers in litigation such as on airport charges, commission to travel agents, noise and emissions, liability cases. Carriers ask us for assistance with …

AIRLINES

Our firm assists with the organisation of groundhandling markets and tenders. The team has litigated several landmark cases in relation to the Groundhandling Directive, and in relation to airport charges and airport infrastructure. Our work includes …

AIRPORTS

We have hands-on experience with aircraft finance and leasing, having assisted lessors, lessees and financial institutions with the negotiation and drafting of agreements and with validity and enforceability checks. The firm advises on …

AIRCRAFT

The team advised on the impact of privatization of air traffic management services. It has conducted litigation for an air traffic control technology provider and has assisted an air traffic controller with tendering air traffic management services. The work includes …

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