Pieter De Koster

Clients come to me for all aspects of employment & benefits law, preferably complex, sensitive and cross-border ones, including compliance issues, works council and industrial relations matters, remuneration and benefits. Combining bespoke, in-depth yet hands-on advice and counseling with strategic insight and proper business perspective is in my view the key role of a senior and experienced partner. That is where clients need me most.

My client base ranges from start-ups, over SME's through global (top-branded) organisations including authorities, in all lines of business and industry.

I have published extensively, and I am a regular conference speaker and commentator in the consumer and trade press on legal HR issues. I am a guest and practice lecturer at KULeuven Law School. I work in Dutch, French and English.

• Board room adviser to many Belgian and international clients in a variety of industries on sensitive matters, incl FMCG, financial services, heavy industry, high tech etc.
• Advising on and managing programmes of national/cross-border structural change, including employee restructurings, closures, (out/in)sourcing, acquisitions and disposals.
• Advising on and managing industrial relations issues, from local to European works councils.
• Handling benefits-related matters, from incentives, equity compensation to international mobility.

• Financial Services
• International HR Services
• Retail and Consumer
• Technology & Communications