Law Firm of the Year Belgium

Firm Profile

Lorenz is an international law firm with offices in Brussels, Bishkek and Geneva established by dynamic and career-building lawyers that gained experience with internationally renowned law firms. Lorenz offers local and international clients legal services in a wide array of Belgian and international business law matters.

The mission of the firm is to serve an international clientele, with an outstanding quality price proposition and with the added value of a personalised service and around-the clock availability.

Lorenz has a unique approach to handling clients’ projects. Due to the absence of formal departments within the organisational structure of Lorenz, we are able to customise inter-disciplinary teams to match the needs of our clients.

Whatever the issue is, our priority is to provide our clients with pragmatic solutions that enable them to achieve their strategic business goals. Therefore, we do not write lengthy and academic legal opinions unless this is specifically required. We try to provide legible and to-the-point, practical and business-oriented advice.

Steven De Schrijver

Steven De Schrijver heads the Lorenz Corporate/M&A and IT & New Media departments. Steven has almost 20 years of experience in advising Belgian and foreign companies, on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, financing of acquisitions, private equity and venture capital. His work in the areas of corporate transactions has involved him in several national and cross-border transactions in the IT, media and telecoms sectors.

 Notable Legal Work

• Lorenz assisted one of its clients with the pan-European implementation of an

online e-commerce and purchasing platform that allows distributors to enter and track product orders, retrieve information on products and pricing, submit complaints or suggestions and obtain online support.

• Lorenz advised one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies, with the drafting of a click-through Software as a Service

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(SaaS) agreement for its system services.

Steven also handles complex commercial agreements and projects dealing with new technologies (e-commerce, software licensing, website development and hosting, privacy law, IT security, technology transfers, digital signatures, IT-outsourcing, SAAS, online gaming, etc.) on behalf of clients.

Areas of Expertise

The firm's areas of expertise include: • Corporate/M&A • Employment law

• Diplomatic relations and international public law

• Energy and natural resources law • IT and data protection law • Gambling and gaming law • Commercial law • Real estate and construction law • Sports and entertainment law • Regulatory law; and • Litigation/arbitration & ADR.

• In 2010 and 2011 Lorenz acted on behalf of a private Canadian company and a world leader in information security, handling a variety of sensitive materials to take over its Belgian and Luxembourg franchisee.

• For a world player in the Oil & Gas

industry our Brussels corporate team did several acquisitions in the oil industry and downstream distribution sector.

Contact

Steven De Schrijver Lorenz

Steven De Schrijver Partner

Regentlaan

Boulevard du Régent 37-40, 1000 Brussels

Telephone: +32 2.239 2000 Email: s.deschrijver@lorenz-law.com Website: www.lorenz-law.com