Leo Peeters
Partner
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- +32 (0)475 23 08 96
- leo.peeters@seeds.law
Commercial and Economic Law - Corporate Law - M&A - Agreements - Insolvency Law - Finance - Sustainability
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As a strategic partner for our clients, I am always looking for the best solutions
Leo Peeters specialises in national and international corporate law and has assisted in a number of mergers and acquisitions, financings and corporate restructurings.
He has extensive experience in contract law, commercial and economic law, banking and finance law, insolvency law, distribution law, corporate contract law, real estate law, telecom law and arbitration.
He advises entrepreneurs and their companies from the very beginning of their activity, during their financing, in the drafting and negotiation of their contracts, during the acquisition and sale of their companies or divisions and also in the restructuring of companies in difficulty (insolvency, WCO and bankruptcy) or their dissolution.
In addition, Leo practices all aspects of law related to art and culture.
Leo has acquired broad experience during a professional career as legal consultant with Price Waterhouse, and as a partner with Ernst&Young. In 1998, he was founding partner of Peeters Advocaten-Avocats in co-operation with Ernst&Young. He afterwards became a partner with Simmons & Simmons and Thompson Hine LLP.
In 2009 Leo founded Peeters Law.
In 2019 Leo and Peeters Law have decided to join forces with Koen De Puydt and his team and to assume a new brand, which better reflects the service we have in mind for you, and that is "Seeds of Law".
Leo is a member of the Brussels Bar.
- Master of Laws (Lic. Iuris), VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), 1981
- MBA (CEPAC), ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay), 1986
- Financial Management, Vlaamse Economische Hogeschool (VLEKHO), 1989
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- English
- German
- Two new reasons for the automatic removal from the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises
- Towards sustainable governance: The role of the director in ESG issues
- Transfer of business reinvented - Business transfers in preparation for bankruptcy
- Reinvented transfer of business - GRP - PRJ
- The deadline for companies set at January, 1 2024 approaches
- Reform of the insolvency laws from September, 1 2023
- The control of Belgian foreign direct investment (FDI) mandatory as of July, 1 2023
- Complying with accounting formalities is necessary to avoid directors' liability
- ESG: From soft law to hard law
- A basic banking service for businesses - important update
- Corporate Opportunity Doctrine - directors may not simply lure away opportunities from the company they manage
- UBO register's public accessibility violates privacy rights
- The Restructuring Directive and its impact on Belgian judicial reorganisation by means of a collective agreement
- Returning a vehicle sold before it has been paid for...?
- Accountants: amendments concerning professional practice and prevention of money laundering
- Competition law more strictly regulated after the transposition of the ECN+ Directive
- Modifications to the block exemption: is the agreement with your distributor still valid after 1 June 2022?
- Companies beware: convert your company now before it is too late
- How to determine your interest rate now that the (L)IBOR interest rate is no longer published?
- Transferring all or part of your business ... how do you go about it?
- 31 August 2021: the deadline for reporting detailed UBO information
- Every transaction now risks merger control by the European Commission
- Do you want to avoid the judicial dissolution of your company? Then file your balance sheets on time
- Corporate Governance and Sustainability - Trends and developments
- Measures in favour of distressed companies prolonged
- The Resale Right for artwork creators - an overview
- Easier access to the JRP provides extra oxygen for struggling businesses
- More detailed information about the UBO to be provided by 31 August 2021
- From 1 May 2021, a Basic Banking Service for businesses
- How the B2B law relates to company law
- More flexibility for meetings and digital meetings allowed in companies and associations
- The temporary "Corona" suspension measures also have an impact on judicial reorganisation plans (WCO/PRJ)
- Crowdfunding also regulated at European level
- The UBO register, object of a real soap
- A new law tightens the rules on the prevention of money laundering
- Protective measures in case of cash shortage
- The right of retention gets support from the Supreme Court
- E-commerce - Part 2 - The how-to of Seeds of Law
- SMEs must be paid faster by large companies
- Abuse of economic dependence and unfair contracts and practices prohibited in a B2B context
- Reform of the insolvency law - Part 3 - Liability of the directors in case of insolvency
- Reform of the insolvency law - Part 2 - Judicial Reorganisation Proceedings become more stringent
- Reform of the insolvency law - Part 1 - To an extended application
- International Bar Association (IBA)
- Andersen Global
- Belgian Centre for Mediation and Arbitration (Cepani)
- European Association of SME Transfer (Transeo)
- Art Law Foundation (Geneva)
- Belgian Corporate Finance Association (BCFA)
- Legal training courses for tax, legal and audit professionals and accountants, in Belgium and abroad;
- Seminars with Chambers of Commerce on topics of corporate law and the insolvency legislation;
- Seminars on corporate law, both to clients and internally within Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young;
- Seminars on the real estate UCITS legislation;
- Seminars on international private law aspects of merging and emigrating companies;
- Seminars on insolvency law with Kluwer Opleidingen;
- Client seminars regarding Corporate Governance.
- Contribution to the report Doing Business 2017 "Equal Opportunity for All" of the World Bank Group.
- Publications regarding corporate and commercial law in several businessreviews;
