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Brussels and Doha – April 1, 2024: The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 2024 edition has recognized 16 practice areas and 11 lawyers in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels and Doha offices. The 11 individual lawyers received 18 total rankings across the 16 different practice areas.

Brussels – April 13, 2022:  The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 2022 edition has recognized 11 practice areas and seven lawyers in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office. The seven individual lawyers received 12 total rankings across all practice areas. The publication seeks to “highlight the practice area teams who are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel.”

Brussels – April 27, 2020: The Legal 500 Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) 2020 edition has recognized 11 practice areas and 13 lawyers in Crowell & Moring’s Brussels office. The firm is recognized as “top tier” in three categories. Thomas De Meeseand Kristof Roox, co-managing partners of the Brussels office, are listed in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame for “continued excellence in client service.”

On November 10, 2022 the European Parliament adopted a resolution on esports and video games. In this resolution the European Parliament calls on the Commission and the Council to acknowledge the value of the video game ecosystem as a major cultural and creative industry (“CCI”) with strong potential for further growth and innovation. The video game ecosystem has become a leading CCI all over the world, with an estimated European market size of EUR 23,3 billion in 2021, including more than 4 900 game studios and 200 game publishers. It has great potential for growth, innovation, creativity and triggering positive change for the whole CCI sector, but, the resolution suggests, would benefit from additional harmonized data, definitions and legal frameworks required to enable them to embrace their full potential.

In a recently released ruling (of June 25th), the Belgian Supreme Court confirmed a decision of the Court of Appeal of Ghent relating to the possibility of copyright protection for lawyers’ work product created within the framework of their professional activity.

We started this series of alerts by sharing our view on the legal consequences of COVID-19 on B2B relations in the events industry. Our first two alerts set the scene. But of course, law is not applied in a vacuum, and to supplement our analysis we thought it would be useful to understand how different stakeholders from the events industry have been experiencing the pandemic. So, in our most recent alerts, we have been reaching out to different industry representatives, asking them five key questions and inviting them to share their perspective.