Olivier Vanden Berghe

Olivier Vanden Berghe heads the firm’s Commercial Contracts and Litigation Practice. He is specialised in commercial contracts litigation and has been representing large undertakings since 25 years in a wide range of commercial issues.

He deals with the legal aspects and litigation relating to “business-to-business” transactions in a large variety of sectors, such as energy, pharmaceuticals, retail, construction and engineering. He is mentioned in Legal 500 Industry focus: Energy (Belgium). Active both in litigation and advisory, he assists clients in determining the most appropriate business scheme, anticipating risks, dealing with business-critical situations and preventing or resolving disputes. His activity focuses on distribution networks and cooperation agreements, industrial construction and engineering activities and joint ventures.

Olivier teaches a course on commercial litigation at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). He is regularly invited as a speaker and has written various articles on the subject of commercial contracts. He is the editor in chief of the Revue de Droit Commercial Belge.

Olivier holds a law degree from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven 1993) and an advanced degree in civil law from Paris II University (1994).

Olivier has been an attorney in Brussels since 1995 and joined Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick in 2001, where he became a Partner in 2008.