Yves Delacroix

Practice Areas

Yves Delacroix, specialised in Real Estate, is the head of the Real Estate Practice.

He has extensive experience in handling large and complex real estate transactions and has particular expertise in sale, sale & leaseback, lease related matters (and other occupational or financial contracts, such as: long-term leases, building rights, usufructs, financial or VAT leasing) and in related commercial contracts and construction law issues. He handles both asset deals and share deals and assists clients at all stages of their projects, including the development phase; he also assists on contentious matters.

His practice encompasses all areas of real estate, be it office, retail, (semi-)industrial; large residential developments and hospitality.

Yves ranks amongst the leading real estate lawyers in Belgium. He acts for many international and Belgian investors, developers, corporate users, retailers and hotel operators. He teaches real estate law as part of the executive master Real Estate at the Université de Louvain (Saint-Louis).

Yves holds a law degree from the University of Louvain (UCL 1986), a degree in international law from the University of Leyden (Netherlands 1987) and a degree in business administration from the Louvain School of Management (UCL 1988). He also attended the executive real estate programme at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (ULB 2005).

He joined Liedekerke in 1990 and became a Partner in 2000; he was a member of the Board for more than 10 years and was the Chairman of the Board of the firm between 2013 and 2019. He was also responsible during 7 years for the EMEA Real Estate Practice Group of Lex Mundi, the international network of independent law firms of which Liedekerke is the Belgian member.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Brussels Bar

UPSI (Union Professionnelle du Secteur Immobilier)

Lafitra (Association for Law, Finance and Trade)

Work Highlights

Assisting Befimmo for several years on all aspects of the ZIN project – a landmark real estate development project that will encompass offices, a hotel, residential units, retail and a co-working, set to be completed by 2024/2025;

Assisting Total Petrochemicals & Refining on the sale (mix of share deal and asset deal) to major developer Immobel of its headquarters in Brussels and the relocation to a new site;

Assisting French group B&B Hotels with their development in Belgium (via turn-key occupation agreements or take over of existing hotels;)

Assisted Vastint in relation to the granting of a long-lease right of 99 years on the iconic “Elite House” building in Brussels to the French real estate company SCI Elite Chisinau (Groupama).

Languages Spoken

French

English

Dutch