added value and quality of the services provided to our client are the very reason of our existence.
Exelia advises individuals and undertakings in both private and public sectors and defends their interests before European and Belgian judicial and administrative courts.
Our intervention is based on personal contacts with our client in order to provide practical and relevant advice relying on a thorough legal analysis.
In particular, we demonstrate our worth by :
providing our client with the best specialists in their legal fields;
adopting a strategic approach adapted to the clients’ needs;
a proactive and efficient service in the context of a truly professional relationship.
our services
consultancy
Proactive assistance during the negotiation and drafting of contracts or any other legally binding document.
prevention
Analysis of the opportunities and legal difficulties generated by our clients’ business.
alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
Negotiations in case of disputes and assistance of our clients in the context of formal and informal ADR proceedings.
litigation
Proceedings before national and international judicial and administrative courts.
international network
Exelia has developed an international network with law firms established in Paris and Luxembourg, sharing the same set of values.
our expertise
commercial and non-profit undertakings
- determination of the most appropriate legal and financial structure
- relationships between shareholders and stakeholders – shareholders’ agreements
- admission to occupation – regulated occupations
- funding issues (credits and loans, warranties, crowdfunding…)
- debt recovery
- competition and trade practices
- company restructuring and corporate law (M&A)
- reorganizations, liquidation and bankruptcy
government and public sector
- publics procurements and tendering
- public-public partnerships
- public-private partnerships
- administrative contract law
- public management contracts
- administrative litigation
- debt recovery
- government and public sector liability
- labor accident / occupational disease in the public sector
- taxation of public authorities and undertakings
- legislative drafting and constitutionality reviews
tax law
- income tax
- corporate tax (businesses and non-profit undertakings)
- value Added Tax (VAT)
- local and regional tax
- international taxation schemes
- individual and corporate tax planning
contract law
- negotiation and drafting of contracts
- commercial litigation
- labor law (employment contracts and internal work regulation, dismissals, transfers of employees & personnel)
- real estate (sales and acquisitions, real estate development and planning, renting & gross lease contracts, leasehold estate, surface rights…)
intellectual property
- copyright (protection and contracts)
- patents and trademarks (filing)
- IP litigation
- data protection and privacy
our expertise
commercial and non-profit undertakings
- determination of the most appropriate legal and financial structure
- relationships between shareholders and stakeholders – shareholders’ agreements
- admission to occupation – regulated occupations
- funding issues (credits and loans, warranties, crowdfunding…)
- debt recovery
- competition and trade practices
- company restructuring and corporate law (M&A)
- reorganizations, liquidation and bankruptcy
government and public sector
- publics procurements and tendering
- public-public partnerships
- public-private partnerships
- administrative contract law
- public management contracts
- administrative litigation
- debt recovery
- government and public sector liability
- labor accident / occupational disease in the public sector
- taxation of public authorities and undertakings
- legislative drafting and constitutionality reviews
tax law
- income tax
- corporate tax (businesses and non-profit undertakings)
- value Added Tax (VAT)
- local and regional tax
- international taxation schemes
- individual and corporate tax planning
contract law
- negotiation and drafting of contracts
- commercial litigation
- labor law (employment contracts and internal work regulation, dismissals, transfers of employees & personnel)
- real estate (sales and acquisitions, real estate development and planning, renting & gross lease contracts, leasehold estate, surface rights…)
intellectual property
- copyright (protection and contracts)
- patents and trademarks (filing)
- IP litigation
- data protection and privacy
vision and values
Undoubtedly like any undertaking, but with more acute needs due to its purpose and place in society, a law firm’s identity is defined by a vision and the core values uniting its members.
Exelia is a meeting between seasoned practitioners with different backgrounds who were able to identify their respective legal skills. It is also and foremost the confluence of driven lawyers who promptly understood they shared, beyond their love for their profession, a vision and common values.
As a law firm, Exelia identifies with its client, and aims at becoming a legitimate and essential member of its client’s team. A reliable, efficient, diligent and steadfast legal ally.
As a consequence of our total commitment and symbiosis, each case entrusted to us is dealt by the attorney who has best skills to handle it, without the interference of any consideration of personal profit : the clients’ and Exelia’s best interests systematically prevail on those of the individuals making up the firm.
The prism of our case analysis is that of the client, even though we are accountable for it : we think with the clients, placing ourselves in a situation enabling us to assist them in elaborating their strategic decisions and guiding it to do so.
As a firm structured on a human scale, Exelia provides identified and stable contacts. We know and understand our clients and adapt our work to their needs as well as their economic and legal realities.
As responsible auxiliaries of a judicial system often criticized, Exelia has adopted a pricing policy in line with the added value it brings to its clients as a high value service provider regardless of their public, private, commercial or non-profit essence.
Aware of our social responsibility, we bear our role is society by contributing, in time, work and resources to certain non-profit undertakings and charities.
Commitment in our work and the quality thereof, loyalty, team spirit and investment in a common endeavour are the values shared by Exelia’s partners and associates in the service of a vision : that of a modern firm truly placing the interest of the client before its own.