Christophe has strong labour and social security expertise focusing on international issues, compensation and benefits, executive and collective dismissals and privacy.

Christophe is the head of the Employment Team in Brussels.

He has 12 years of experience in employment, social security, pension and personal income tax matters. With broad experience in both individual and collective dismissals, Christophe’s expertise lies in top executives’ dismissals. He advises on transfer of undertaking, social aspects of major reorganisations and privacy issues. He focuses on the social as well as the tax aspects of compensation and benefits matters such as share related schemes, stock-option schemes, bonus schemes, self-employment and management companies, present and deferred compensation structures, split salaries, secondments and international mobility issues.

Before joining us in 2009, Christophe worked as a tax consultant at Deloitte & Touche and then as a lawyer specialising in employment law within the Brussels offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and, more recently, Loyens & Loeff.
 
Christophe was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2001 and is a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association. In 2010, he was appointed as supplemental judge for the labour tribunal of Brussels. Christophe regularly speaks at seminars and conferences; he has also written for a number of publications and recently wrote a book on stock options. Christophe speaks French, Dutch and English.