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Loyens & Loeff

Private Wealth Law

High Net Worth Guide 2025 : Belgium

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Loyens & Loeff

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Our Family Owned Business & Private Wealth team provides bespoke and personal advice to (ultra) high-net-worth individuals, family offices, investment managers, private equity firms and multinational enterprises. We take a co-operative and forward-thinking approach, anticipating social dynamics, and helping our clients to make the right choices.

What can clients expect from us?
1. Tax and legal structuring of family-owned business​es​​
2. Advice on the management and supervision of the family-owned business and wealth
3. Protection of wealth and privacy
4. Tax and legal structuring of succession planning (private equity, real estate, funds)
5. Support for emigration and/or repatriation
6. Tax and legal structuring of valuable assets
7. Advice on prenuptial agreements and last wills
8. Establishing (family) foundations and charitable organisations
9. Pension provision

What makes us unique?
We have a fully-integrated collaboration between tax and civil lawyers. This allows us to efficiently transform complex tax and legal issues into pragmatic solutions. Questions are considered and addressed from various perspectives, and we are completely independent from accountants. Our clients can also draw on specialist tax and legal knowledge of the rules in our four home markets (the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland) and our global (business) network.

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Private Wealth Law - Belgium

Band 2

What the Team is Known For
The Loyens & Loeff team acts for a broad spectrum of high net worth clients, including entrepreneurs, executives and families. Loyens & Loeff draws on its cross-border capabilities to assist clients with private wealth and family business matters, such as wealth transfer planning, corporate income tax, immigration, trusts, foundations and marital agreements.
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Strengths

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  • They have a very cooperative attitude, high technical standards and a good way of handling this with the clients, and a strong learning process to develop their employees to the same standards.

    Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth

  • The Loyens lawyers I have worked with have always impressed me with their professionalism, how reactive they are and, most of all, their ability to get the best results for their clients.

    Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth

Notable Practitioners

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  • Saskia Lust
    Saskia Lust

    Saskia Lust

    Saskia Lust regularly advises wealthy clients on international asset structuring matters and co-leads the firm's family-owned business and private wealth practice.

    • Saskia Lust is a very good private client lawyer.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
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  • Nicolas Bertrand
    Nicolas Bertrand

    Nicolas Bertrand

    Nicolas Bertrand frequently advises high net worth individuals and family-owned businesses on complex tax issues, inheritance planning, wealth structuring and wealth optimisation techniques.

    • Nicolas Bertrand is one of the most results-oriented lawyers I have worked with. He is calm, diplomatic and has a great ability to grasp the bigger picture in commercial and tax matters.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth

    • Nicolas Bertrand is extremely appreciated because he is very versatile, he is very quick to understand the problems of each case, and he has an excellent understanding of the family's challenges.

      Private Wealth Law respondentHigh Net Worth
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