 Peter Verhaeghe is a name partner of Vermulst Verhaeghe & Graafsma. His areas of expertise include corporate, corporate finance, banking, tax and media law.
Mr. Verhaeghe graduated magna cum laude in law from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1981. From 1981 to 1983, he was an assistant professor of tax law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He earned his LL.M. at Harvard Law School in 1984. He speaks fluently Dutch, French and English, and has a working knowledge of German.
Mr. Verhaeghe represents major European, American and Asian multinationals in all sectors of the economy. He has significant corporate and tax experience in advising clients on the establishment and functioning of holding and trade companies as well as, distribution and service centres in Europe. He has also extensive experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, structuring and negotiating joint ventures, privatisations of state-owned enterprises, project finance, real estate transactions and all kinds of debt and equity offerings. In addition, Mr. Verhaeghe has represented over the years several media and entertainment groups with respect to their intellectual property rights.
Mr. Verhaeghe has acted as lead counsel for direct investment, project finance and privatisation projects in various countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Azerbaijan, Russia, Morocco and the United States of America.
 Mr. Verhaeghe has published in various publications on a variety of Belgian and international corporate and tax issues. He was a member of the board of editors of Fiscale Actualiteit, a major Belgian tax periodical published by Wolters Kluwer België N.V. He is a member of the Legal and Taxation Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Brussels. Mr. Verhaeghe is a member of the Brussels Bar, the International Bar Association and the International Fiscal Association. He has acted in 1998 and 1999 as the national reporter for Belgium on tax developments for the International Bar Association.
Mr Verhaeghe is invariably listed in Euromoney's Legal Group Guide as one of the leading tax advisors in Belgium.
peter.verhaeghe@vvg-law.com
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