Gert A. Verhellen

Gert A. Verhellen ( verhellenmcj@verhellen-joseph.eu) is one of the founding partners of the Law Firm of VERHELLEN - JOSEPH.

1991-1992:	Law firm De Bandt, Van Hecke, Lagae ( currently Linklaters & Alliance), Corporate Department, corporate law and securities law, mergers and acquisitions
1992-1994:	Treuhandanstalt Berlin , Privatization of corporations: contract negotiations, title search related to previous expropriations, financial consequences on portfolio corporations, restructuring of corporations
1995:	Advisor to Beteiligungs-Management-Gesellschaft Berlin mbH: advising on privatization issues
1996-2003:	Member of the Brussels Bar in association with GOORIS Advocaten (Brussels), while, inter alia , advising CEDEL Bank (international clearing bank based in Luxembourg), and providing counsel to the European Commission, Directorate General Competition, control of state aid.
2003-current:	Partner, VERHELLEN-JOSEPH ( Brussels ), Belgian law firm

Lectured on European intercultural differences at the Vlerick School of Management, Ghent , Belgium and for Debelux (German-Belgian-Luxemburg Chamber of Commerce) in Cologne , Germany
Lectured for the European Commission on the enlargement of the European Union in Maastricht , The Netherlands
Lectured on "Doing business in China " for the Association of Chocolate Makers of Belgium, Brussels
Member of the Legal Department (as Reserve Officer), General Headquarters of the Belgian Armed Forces, Brussels
Guest lecturer at the Lessius Hogeschool , Antwerp , Belgium

Licentiaat in de rechten , Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels), 1990
Master of Comparative Jurisprudence (M.C.J.), New York University ( New York , U.S.A. ), 1991

Vije Universriteit Brussel , Bijzonder Licentiaat in de Bedrijfskunde , (Masters Degree in Economics), 1990

Mother tongue: Dutch

Fluency in French, English and German ( written and spoken )

Basic knowledge of Spanish and Italian