Gilles LAGUESSE is a specialist lawyer in banking and credit law. He also practices financial law, banking litigation, and arbitration.
He mainly advises and represents systemic or smaller credit institutions, insurance companies, investment service companies and intermediaries, payment institutions, crowdfunding/crowdlending platforms, and intermediaries active in cryptocurrency trading.
The cases he handles relate to public and private banking regulations, compliance, credits, payment services and operations, investment operations (private banking, portfolio management, order execution, and investment advice), guarantees, banker and financial intermediary liability, seizures, and enforcement procedures.
Graduated in Law from the University of Liège, Gilles Laguesse has been a member of the Brussels Bar since 2008. He also has special training in international business law (Maastricht University) and special training on the implications for companies of international commercial law. He practices in French, English, and Dutch.
As arbitrator, he is a member of the CEPANI and the BACS. Gilles Laguesse also teaches private law at the ICHEC Brussels School of Management. He has also been a lecturer at the University of Brussels (Solvay Business School) where he taught commercial law, as well as assistant in banking law at the University of Liège. He is the author of numerous scientific publications.
His vision of things : “I sincerely believe that the best way for a lawyer to maximize the chances of success in a case is to consider themselves, with the client, as members of the same team. Everyone listens to each other, understands each other, and supports each other. This is how, in the end, we win a case: together. I am fortunate and pleased to work with clients who are fully knowledgeable about the subjects I discuss with them. I learn from my clients every day. I have a lot of respect for them, and it is a daily pleasure.”
MAIN AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Banking and Credit Law
- Financial law
- Arbitration
- Seizures and enforcement
- International business law
ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
- Member of the French-speaking Order of Lawyers of the Brussels Bar
- Professor at ICHEC Brussels Management School
- Member of CEPANI (Belgian Center for Arbitration and Mediation)
- Member of BACS (Belgian Arbitration Court for Sport)
EDUCATION
- Law Degree, University of Liège (2008)
- Specialization in International Business Law, Universiteit Maastricht (2008)
RECENT CONTRIBUTIONS
- « Baromètre de jurisprudence en droit bancaire : 2020-2021 », D.A.O.R., 2022, n° 143, pp. 2-39 ;
- « De-risking et service bancaire de base : Epiméthée a encore frappé », in Cabinet de curiosités pour un juriste passionné, Liber Amicorum Denis Philippe, Larcier, 2022, pp. 1343 à 1365 ;
- « Remboursement anticipé d’un crédit et funding loss : historique et état des lieux », in Forum de l’Immobilier, Anthémis, 2022 ;
- « Phishing et responsabilités : l’appréciation in abstracto de la négligence grave », D.B.F., Larcier, 2021 ;
- « Baromètre de jurisprudence en droit bancaire : 2019 », D.A.O.R., 2021, pp. 1-43 ;
- « Le point sur les plateformes de financement participatif (crowdfunding – crowdlending), D.A.O.R., 2019, pp. 33-41 ;
- Le devoir de l’intermédiaire de crédit de vérifier les informations transmises par le consommateur, note sous Mons, 28 novembre 2017, Forum de l’Assurance, 2018, pp. 47-52 ;
- « Funding loss, à la recherche de la logique perdue… », Actualités en droit bancaire et financier, Liber Amicorum Martine Delierneux, Larcier, 2017.
- La réforme du crédit hypothécaire – aperçu en 10 questions choisies, in Actualités en matière de crédit, Larcier, 2016.
- Règlement (UE) 2015/751 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 29 avril 2015 relatif aux commissions d’interchange pour les opérations de paiement liées à une carte, D.B.F., 2015, p. 276.
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