Insights

Crowell & Moring's Brussels office is featured in an article highlighting recent partner and senior counsel appointments, as well as an overview of the practice strengths of those individuals and the office as a whole. Brussels partner and office head, Kristof Roox, praises his colleagues, saying, "Jan-Diederik [Lindeman]'s promotion and the addition of Geert [Bogaert] reinforces the strength and breadth of experience that our Brussels office offers and demonstrates our continued investment" in staff appointments. The piece also focuses on the key aspects of the Brussels office, in particular the advising and litigating experience in EU and Belgian Law, intellectual property, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences.

Crowell & Moring's Brussels-based partner, Thomas De Messe, is featured in an article citing recent growth of Anglo-Saxon law firms is surprising. The article reports that many of these firms are not satisfied to accompany their international customers and to develop their practice in European law, but are interested more and more in the Belgian market. De Messe confirms this, stating, "Our local anchoring offers us greater flexibility and less dependence on the international network."  

Crowell & Moring Brussels office partner Thomas de Meese is featured in EUROPOLITICS for his comments on whether Europe can create its own system of collective redress. On April 3, 2008, the European Commission issued a White Paper on preliminary proposals for a new European basis for collective damages claims.