Biography: Management Labour and Employment

Alexander Vandenbergen is a partner at Lydian. He graduated in 1991 as Licentiate in Laws at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL). During his final year, he specialised in European law at the University of Edinburgh.

From 1991-99, he worked as a lawyer with Loeff Claeys Verbeke (now Allen & Overy Belgium). In 2000 he worked as a director with KPMG Tax & Legal Advisers. He left in 2001 to found Lydian. Within the firm he deals with all aspects of employment law and pensions law. His practice concentrates on two specific niches: (i) collective labour law issues with particular emphasis on the labour law aspects of large corporate reorganisations and (ii) specific projects in the area of pensions (ie restructuring or winding down of pension schemes, complex litigation).

Alexander is a member of the International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers' Association (IPEBLA), the European Employment Lawyers' Association (EELA), the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) and the Belgian Association of Pension Lawyers (BePLA).

Alexander is a recommended lawyer in Chambers, the Legal 500, Who's Who Legal, PLC Which Lawyer? as well as the European Legal Experts, for his work in employment law and pensions law.

Lydian is an independent full-service law firm that also practices corporate & finance, commercial & litigation, public law & environmental law, real estate, ICRT/IP, tax law and non-profit and trade associations. It has about 60 lawyers with offices in Brussels and Antwerp. For more information about our firm, please visit our website www.lydian.be