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Inge Vanderreken
Biography
As an employment law and incentives expert, Inge assists her clients on the full spectrum of employment law and compensation, with a particular focus on (multinational) contractual set-ups, executive compensation and incentive plans, investigations, discrimination and harassment issues, compliance and whistleblowing as well as separation cases.
She has a strong track record on helping clients with cross border HR projects, work force restructuring and information and consultation of employee representatives, transfer of undertakings and on the employment aspects of corporate and outsourcing transactions and has considerable expertise on data protection and privacy issues. She also represents clients in court when required.
Clients favour her negotiation skills and her understanding of the business dimension, praising her ‘business acumen’ in the legal directories.
She has published and lectured on various aspects of employment law and incentives, including restructuring, outsourcing, investigations, incentive schemes, discrimination and privacy issues, and multi-jurisdictional employment matters. She is a member of the Board of the Brussels "Labour Law Association" (a group comprising in-house counsel, practising lawyers, magistrates and judges, all specialising in employment law) and a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).
Practice areas
- Global employment and compensation
- Corporate and M&A
- Disputes
- Outsourcing
- Insurance
Sectors
- Energy
- Life sciences and healthcare
- Banks
- Consumer and retail
- Chemicals
- Insurance
- Communications media and entertainment
Selected experience
- Recticel, on the employment aspects of the sale of its foams business to the US company, Carpenter.
- Port of Zeebrugge on all the employment, social security and pension aspects of its merger with the Port of Antwerp, resulting in the Port of Antwerp Bruges.
- A global pharmaceutical company on (i) several investigations; (ii) sensitive dismissals and (iii) employment legal procedures.
- A global company on its entire whistleblowing (management) process, including the implementation of a new whistleblowing platform and policy in line with the EU Whistleblowing Directive and its national implementation in various jurisdictions, as well as the ongoing case management and investigations of reported misconduct across multiple jurisdictions.
- A Belgian company, on the employment, social criminal and general criminal law aspects of an internal investigation into toxic leadership at one of its subsidiaries, following media allegations. We assisted on the investigation process, risk assessment, board decision-making and disciplinary actions.
- A global company on the employment, social security and (social) criminal law aspects following media reporting of human trafficking by a contractor at its construction site.
- A global industrial leader on various complex and highly sensitive C-level and senior executive exits, involving cross-border employment, corporate mandates, incentive plans, dismissal and discrimination issues.
- A global healthcare company, in the context of an internal investigation on potential conflicts of interest and bribery at the procurement department in a tender process.
- A private equity fund, on the employment aspects of the acquisition of a company in the technology and software business, including post-completion implementation.
- A global corporation in preparing a bespoke conceptual and scenario-based training session on diversity and inclusion, and how to create an environment for appropriate behaviors among colleagues, and speaking up in relation to harassment and discrimination.
Education
- Master in Pensions, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), 2012
- LLM, Labour Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1993
- Law Degree, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), 1992
Admissions
- Stagiair, Belgium, 1993
- Admitted as advocate, Belgium, 1996
- Registered Foreign Lawyer, England and Wales, 2021
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- French