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Mayer Brown has hired Daniel Vowden as a partner into its antitrust and competition practice in London, the firm announced today (6 November).

Former WilmerHale Brussels partner rejoins Henderson Chambers

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During the Committee on Womens Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) which took place this Thursday, October 13 in the European Parliament, the young Sahrawi Jadiyetu Mohamed - pictured - (Khadijatou) singled out her rapist Brahim Ghali (Chief Polisario separatists) during the hearing titled

Speakers at a symposium organized on the sidelines of the 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) session have condemned the atrocities committed by the Polisario in the Tindouf camps. The symposium was initiated by “Promotion of Economic and Social Development” (PDES) and “International Observatory for Peace,…

Brussels – August 29, 2022: Emmanuel Plasschaert , partner and head of Crowell & Moring’s Corporate, Commercial, and Employment practices in Brussels, will become president (“bâtonnier”) of the Brussels Bar (FR) on September 1, 2022.

Fragomen professionals are volunteering at the Voyaach Helpdesk in Brussels, an initiative supporting asylum seekers and forcibly displaced persons in Belgium by providing them access to legal aid. The collaborative initiative provides legal information and access to immigration lawyers when individuals’ rights to basic services such as shelter are denied. The initiative was originally triggered…

Stepping up trade agreements enforcement: the European Commission published a pool of 133 individuals selected for appointment as arbitrators and/or trade and sustainable development (TSD) experts in bilateral disputes under trade agreements with third countries, such as EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) or agreements with African countries. The selected candidates come from very diverse backgrounds and include legal practitioners and academics from all over the world and across the EU...

Belgium and China celebrated 50 years of diplomatic relations in 2021. Belgium was one of the first Western countries to cooperate with China, and Belgian companies have been contributing to Chinas development in their own ways, helping it develop from being a largely agricultural society into the second-largest economy in the world, with a huge consumer market.

Three new experts have been appointed to the Belgian parliament's Congo Commission, to advise the government on how to deal with Belgium's colonial past.