Taylor Wessing boosts Brussels office with Employment hire

Taylor Wessing announces the appointment of new employment partner, Philippe De Wulf, who joins our Brussels office.

Philippe joins us from Ashurst Brussels, where he headed up the employment department.  His arrival further strengthens Taylor Wessing's resolve to develop a full service offering from our Brussels office, launched in October 2005. 

Philippe has in-depth experience of acting for large multinational and domestic companies on employment, social security, incentives and pension law matters, alongside any litigious work in these areas. 

The launch of Taylor Wessing Brussels 12 months ago saw three new partners join our ranks to complement our existing EU and competition legal capabilities in Belgium:  Marc Picat (commercial and competition law), Jean Van Steenwinckel (tax), and Christine Flion (real estate).  Corporate partner, Jeroen Smets, joined Marc, Jean and Christine in May 2006, also from Ashurst.

Marc Picat, head of the Brussels office, comments:

"We are delighted to welcome Philippe to Taylor Wessing in Belgium. Our principal objective further to our launch was to expand our corporate, employment and intellectual property offerings. The respective arrivals of Jeroen and Philippe fulfil two of these three objectives. We look forward to adding IP to the mix in the very near future. In the interim, we are excited to add Philippe's employment expertise to our services."

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