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Gilles Laguesse is a lawyer at the Brussels Bar, practising in banking and financial law. He is first and foremost a banking-litigation lawyer, and also develops a strong practice in regulatory advice and compliance. He advises banks, insurers, payment and investment firms, fintech companies and intermediaries — in litigation as well as advisory work. He is glad to act in support of companies and other legal teams on complex banking and financial matters. He runs droitbancaire.be and its « Expresso » banking-law series.
Background
A member of the Brussels Bar since 2008, he has built his practice around banking and financial litigation, bank liability and the related regulatory advice. He practises as a partner in his firm.
Areas of practice
- Banking litigation and bank liability — duties of information, advice and warning; pleadings before the Belgian and European courts
- Banking and financial regulation — licensing and status, prudential requirements, dealings with the NBB and the FSMA
- Compliance, anti-money-laundering (AML/CFT) and international sanctions — customer due diligence (KYC), asset freezing, restrictive measures, de-risking
- Payment services and fraud — from PSD2 to the PSR/PSD3, strong customer authentication (SCA), phishing, spoofing, burden of proof
- Credit — granting and termination, consumer and mortgage credit (2016 reform), funding loss and reinvestment indemnity
- Security interests and suretyship — joint and indivisible guarantees, outstanding-balance insurance
- Investment services and financial markets — MiFID II, investor information, private banking, crypto-assets (MiCA)
- Consumer protection and unfair terms — contractual transparency, B2B and B2C practices (Code of Economic Law)
- Basic banking service and right to an account — bank exclusion, account closure
- Enforcement — attachment, garnishee obligations, asset transparency
Litigation and advice
He litigates regularly before the Belgian courts and, where appropriate, the European courts. He also provides regulatory and operational advice to financial-sector companies, in support of their legal teams or of other firms.
Teaching and arbitration
Gilles Laguesse has taught a course at ICHEC Brussels Management School for over ten years. He also sits as an arbitrator with CEPANI (the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation) and the CBAS (Belgian Court of Arbitration for Sport).
Publications and analysis
Author of numerous contributions in banking and financial law — notably in the review Droit bancaire et financier / Bank- en Financieel Recht and in the DAOR — he also publishes his analysis and news series on this site:
- The full list: Publications by Gilles Laguesse
- His news briefs: The Expresso banking-law series
- All his in-depth analysis: the droitbancaire.be blog
Contact
You can also find Gilles Laguesse on LinkedIn.
