Jérôme VERMEYLEN, ALTIUS, Avenue du Port 86C, B.414, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 426 14 14, Fax: +32 2 426 20 30, e-mail: jerome.vermeylen@altius.com

Jérôme VERMEYLEN is a partner at ALTIUS (in co-operation with Tiberghien) (www.altius.com), a leading independent Belgian law firm. He has practised at the Brussels Bar since 1997 and has studied at the University of Leuven, Belgium (Lic. Jur., cum laude 1995), the University of Amiens, France (Erasmus Exchange Programme, 1991), Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, UK (Erasmus Exchange Programme, 1994), the University of Tübingen and High Court of Düsseldorf, Germany (DAAD Special Programme in German Law, 1996), and the University of Brussels, Belgium (Special Degree in Corporate Law, cum laude 2000). Jérôme specialises in M&A, private equity, and corporate reorganisations. He has assisted numerous clients in relation to both domestic and cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and reorganisations. Jérôme is a member of AIJA, the German-Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce (Debelux), and the Belgo-Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BICC&I).

Ivo VANDE VELDE, Tiberghien, Avenue du Port 86C, B.419, 1000 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 773 40 00, Fax: + 32 2 773 40 55, e-mail: ivo.vandevelde@tiberghien.com

IVO VANDE VELDE is a senior tax lawyer at Tiberghien (in co-operation with ALTIUS) (www.tiberghien.com), a leading Belgian specialist tax-law firm. He practises at the Brussels Bar and is a graduate of the University of Antwerp (Lic. Jur., magna cum laude 1987) and of the Vlerick School of Management in Ghent (Master's degree in Tax Law, magna cum laude 1988). As a corporate tax lawyer, he specialises in M&A and domestic and cross-border corporate reorganisations. He has published several articles and other contributions on domestic and cross-border mergers and divisions. He has given presentations at several seminars about the Belgian implementation of the Merger Tax Directive.

Jérôme Vermeylen, Marie Brasseur, Ivo Vande Velde and Sven Demeulemeester (Altius Tiberghien)
David Nevesely (HAVEL & HOLÁSEK)
John Flanigan, Katell Déniel-Allioux, Sandra Hazan and Thierry Renaud de la Faverie (Salans)
Stefan Simon, Daniel Rubner, Ingo Stangl and Mattias Grundke (Flick Gocke Schaumburg)
Ulrike Rein and Mihaly Barcza (Oppenheim)
Peter Maher, Paul Fahy, James Grennan and Ian Moore (A&L Goodbody)
Rosario Zacca and Luciano Acciari (Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners)
Pit Reckinger, Léon Gloden and Dirk Richter (Elvinger Hosse & Prussen)
Hugo Reumkens, Ewout van Asbeck and Albert van Marwijk Kooy (Van Doorne)
Marek Wroniak and Andrzej Debiec (Hogan Lovells)
Ignacio Corbera Dale, Carlos J. Rodriguez and Misi Borras (Garrigues)
Per Hedman and Johanna Nilsson (Lindahl)
Nick Parden (Lovells)
Dr. Michael Tepass (Linklaters LLP, Frankfurt am Main)