Matters

Stibbe advises a major worldwide industrial player on the implementation of an intra-group financing structure involving a hybrid-profit participating loan that a Luxembourg holding company granted to a Belgian group company.

Stibbe represented a major insurance company in its defence before the Brussels Court against a group of claimants who purchased life insurance schemes linked to Traded Endowment Funds.

Stibbe assisted the Belgian Buildings Agency (federal government agency) on the construction of six prison compounds in Belgium.

Stibbe advised a Belgian audio-visual production company, part of a global media group, on tax and other legal issues.

Stibbe assisted Vandemoortele with the EUR 325 million divestment of its soy foods division, known under the trademarks Alpro and Provamel, to Dean Foods Company.

Advising Hoogheemraadschap Delfland, the contracting authority, on the DBFMO contracting of a large Waste Water Treatment Plant and associated network in the Netherlands.

Stibbe assisted an international insurance company in class action proceedings before the criminal courts regarding the sale of life insurance investment products and their unraveling due to the financial downturn.

Representing RWE Dea (wax) in antitrust damage litigation in the District Court, following on from the European Commission’s finding of an antitrust infringement in the wax sector.

Stibbe advised a leading European real estate investor and developer on the tax structuring of a new football stadium site that has a hotel complex and office and residential space.

Stibbe assisted Kinepolis in the negotiation of a contracting framework with most major Hollywood film studios underpinning Kinepolis’s deployment of the next generation digital cinema projection systems.