Koen de Puydt
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Koen de Puydt graduated in 1998 as a degree in Communication Sciences (VUB), while he worked for the independent music magazine RifRaf as a journalist. After his studies, he continued his career as a music journalist with De Standaard and Studio Brussel. At the same time he obtained his Licentiate Degree in Law, specializing in Public Law at the VUB (2002). In 2009 he obtained a Master of Business Law at the University of Antwerp.
In 2002, Koen joined a Brussels niche firm specializing in administrative law (urban planning and environmental law, expropriations, government contracts, and protection legislation). In the meantime he remained responsible at de Puydt-van Cauwelaert for the files relating to commercial and economic law and intellectual property law.
Two years later, Koen started working full-time at de Puydt-van Cauwelaert. He was responsible for matters relating to urban planning and environmental law, real estate law, government contracts, contracting law, commercial and economic law, corporate law and intellectual property law. He also publishes on these matters.
In 2010 de Puydt-van Cauwelaert and GD & A Advocaten merged. Koen de Puydt, as partner, headed the Real Estate / Construction Law and Corporate Law units.
Since 2002 he has been lecturer "Contracts, Assignments and Mandates" at Syntra Brussels in the vocational training for real estate agents. In the course for Real Estate Experts, Koen lesson on construction law. He is the initiator of the Property Codex, a collection of legal texts tailored to the real estate professional. The codex is used throughout Flanders in the vocational training of the real estate agents within Syntra.
In August 2012, Koen co-founded the law firm ORYS. In April 2019, Koen together with Leo Peeters of Peeters Law have decided to set up a new law firm under the name of "Seeds of Law".
Koen de Puydt has many publications to his name and gives on a regular base formations to real estate professionals.
- Master in Communication Sciences, VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 1989
- Master of Laws, VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 2002
- Master of Business Law, UA (Universiteit Antwerpen), 2009
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- New Royal Decree on clauses in real estate mediation in force since 1 February 2024
- The burden of the Pandemic closure risk is for the landlord
- The EU Supply Chain Act (Part 2)
- The EU Supply Chain Act (Part 1)
- Major adjustments in the pipeline for environment, living environment and spatial planning
- The contractual phase in the new Belgian contract law
- Asbestos certificate required in Flanders
- The clash of general terms and conditions in the new law of obligations
- Biddit: the new online auction tool, pros and cons explained
- Building materials are significantly more expensive and delivered late. How do you cope with it?
- Smart contracts in a nutshell
- Flemish government reached an agreement on the building shift
- New European threshold amounts for public procurement
- The new property law entered into force on 1 September 2021
- Legal procedure for disputes concerning permits amended
- The new VAT rules for e-commerce are approaching!
- As from 1 January 2021 a new method for quality control of housing will enter into force
- The 6% VAT application in the construction sector will temporarily be extended as from 2021
- Recent developments concerning local construction stop
- Reconstruction and demolition of buildings in co-ownership possible again with a 4/5th majority
- Covid-19: Back to work or working from home?
- Want to install a camera? - Part 2
- Want to install a camera? - Part 1
- Alarm in Privacyland : The EU-US Privacy Shield declared unlawful
- E-commerce - Part 2 - The how-to of Seeds of Law
- E-commerce – Part 1
- Andersen Global
- BVS-UPSI
- BLSC
- IR-Global
- Brabant Business Club
- Milieurecht in Brussel: Een wandeling door wetgeving én praktijk, Koen de Puydt, VIVO-Sterk in Vastgoedvorming, 4 maart 2021;
- Actua Stedenbouw Brussel, Koen de Puydt en Aline Heyrman, VIVO – Sterk in Vastgoedvorming, 15 december 2020;
- Actua van de vernieuwde Brusselse huurregelgeving, Koen de Puydt en Ulrike Beuselinck, VIVO – Sterk in Vastgoedvorming, 29 oktober 2020.
- Koen DE PUYDT, Marc LOYENS en Ulrike BEUSELINCK, Vastgoedcodex 2022-2023, KnopsPublishing, 2022, (volledige editie), 1252 p.;
- Koen DE PUYDT en Ulrike BEUSELINCK, Woninghuur in Vlaanderen en Brussel: uw 70 antwoorden op de meest praktische vragen, Intersentia, 2022, 201 p.;
- Koen DE PUYDT, Ulrike BEUSELINCK en Stéphane DE KEYZER, Nieuwe woninghuur in Vlaanderen en Brussel: uw 60 antwoorden, Intersentia, 2019, 187 p.;
- Koen DE PUYDT, Marc LOYENS, Julie LAUWERS en Stéphane DE KEYZER, Vastgoedcodex 2018-2019, Mijnwetboek.be, 2018, (volledige editie);
- Stéphane DE KEYZER en Koen DE PUYDT, “Le pouvoir discrétionnaire de l’administration. Une mise à l’épreuve en marchés publics”, Jaarboek overheidsopdrachten/ Chronique des marchés publics 2017-2018, Brussel, EBP Publishers, 2018, pp. 467-495;
- Koen DE PUYDT, Marc LOYENS, Julie LAUWERS en Guy BAELDE, Stéphane DE KEYZER, Vastgoedcodex 2017-2018, Mijnwetboek.be, 2017, (volledige editie);
- Stéphane DE KEYZER en Koen DE PUYDT, “Des standards privés en marchés publics. La normalisation en droit de la passation et en procédure d’exécution des marchés”, Jaarboek overheidsopdrachten/ Chronique des marchés publics 2015-2016, Brussel, EBP Publishers, 2016, pp. 753-772;
- Koen DE PUYDT, Marc LOYENS, Julie LAUWERS en Guy BAELDE, Stéphane DE KEYZER, Vastgoedcodex 2016-2017, Mijnwetboek.be, 2016, achtste editie;
- Stéphane DE KEYZER en Koen DE PUYDT, “Des droits de propriété intellectuelle en marchés publics“, Jaarboek Overheidsopdrachten/ Chronique des marchés publics 2014-2015, Brussel, EBP Publishers, 2015, pp. 699-712;
- Koen DE PUYDT, Marc LOYENS, Julie LAUWERS en Guy BAELDE, Vastgoedcodex 2015-2016, Mijnwetboek.be, 2015, zevende editie (1ste, 2de jaar en volledige editie);
- Bert KELCHTERMANS, Koen DE PUYDT en Stéphane DE KEYZER “ Enkele van de meest in het oog springende nieuwigheden met betrekking tot wijzigingen, herzieningen en onvoorziene omstandigheden in de uitvoeringsfase van overheidsopdracht“, Jaarboek Overheidsopdrachten/ Chronique des marchés publics 2013-2014, Brussel, EBP Publishers, 2014, pp. 951-965;
- Koen DE PUYDT, Marc LOYENS, Julie LAUWERS en Guy BAELDE, Vastgoedcodex 2013-2014, Mijnwetboek.be, 2013, zesde editie (1ste, 2de jaar en volledige editie);
- Koen DE PUYDT en Sofie ALBERT, “Schorsingsprocedure bij uiterst dringende noodzakelijkheid – Betichting van valsheid – Vertrouwelijke stukken”, noot onder arrest RvS van 23 augustus 2011, nr. 214.846, T. Aann. 2013/2, 167-177;
- Koen DE PUYDT en Ulrike BEUSELINCK, “Verrijking zonder oorzaak – geval van zeldzame toepassing in het kader van overheidsopdrachten”, noot bij RB Dendermonde, 18 december 2009, T.ann. 2013, afl. 1, 75-83;
- Koen DE PUYDT, Marc LOYENS en Julie LAUWERS, Vastgoedcodex 2012-2013, Mijnwetboek.be, 2012, 638 p., vijfde editie;
- Jan GHYSELS en Koen DE PUYDT, Parlementair Ontleed: Het Milieuvergunningsdecreet: Het basisdecreet, Uitgeverij Intersentia, Nov. 2004, 603 p.;
- Jan GHYSELS en Koen DE PUYDT, Parlementair Ontleed: Het Milieuvergunningsdecreet: De wijzigingsdecreten, Uitgeverij Intersentia, Maart 2005, 789 p.
