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Senior partner
Kristiaan Caluwaerts
Mr. Kristiaan Caluwaerts is a lawyer at the Antwerp Bar since 1993, and is one of the founding partners of the firm, which was established together with Prof. Dr. Kristof Uytterhoeven in the year 2001.
Mr. Caluwaerts focuses on company law such as M&A, corporate housekeeping and dispute resolution. On the other hand, he focuses on insolvency law, commercial contracts and distribution law. In his M&A practice Kristiaan Caluwaerts has extensive experience in real estate transactions and real estate projects.
His experience in these fields is very diverse and ranges from conducting negotiations, due diligence activities, assisting in mediations and arbitration to litigating before various courts and providing advice. He addresses a professional and commercial clientele ranging from SMEs to large and multinational companies (a.o. stock market companies).
In view of Mr. Caluwaerts' particular interest in insolvency law, in 2020 he followed the postgraduate course of Trustee - Liquidator. Since June 2021, he was included in the list of trustees of the Commercial Court of Antwerp, Antwerp Division.
Internationally, Kristiaan Caluwaerts has been an active member of the Executive Committee of LawExchange International over the last 12 years, and is through these connections familiar with dealing with international clients and cross-border proceedings and advice. From April 2022 to April 2024, Kristiaan Caluwaerts was Chairman of the organisation, whereas today he fulfils the role of Secretary-General.
In line with his professional activities, Kristiaan Caluwaerts also has a teaching mandate in corporate law and regularly gives seminars and training courses on corporate and insolvency law matters.
Besides his profession, Kristiaan Caluwaerts is strongly involved in association and social life. Among other things, he has been chairman of the Berchem business association Link 26.