Philippe De Vos
- Lawyer at the Ghent Bar since 1980 (internship in the office of the late Mr L.J. Martens)
- Studies: philosophy and law at the UFSIA and the KUL.
- Specialisation: maritime and inland navigation law at the UA.
- Founder: Tijdschrift voor Gentse rechtspraak, now TGR/TVWR.
- Through maritime and inland navigation law, he came into contact with the international trade and distribution world and immersed himself in European and International private law and distribution law.
- In 1995, he published the first doctrinal work on the new Commercial Agency Act.
- Meanwhile, he was closely involved in setting up the international lawyers' network Consilium Iuris, based in Frankfurt, of which he has been Vice-Chairman continuously since 2000.
- He gave lectures on maritime law at home and abroad and, as a shipowner, was involved in drafting the chapter on maritime privileges and mortgages of the new Shipping Code.
- He is the author of several articles on maritime l
Specialisations
- International distribution contracts, agency contracts, franchising and other cross-border commercial contracts.
- Commercial leases, competition law, market practices, export licensing, recall procedures, product safety and intellectual rights are also among his areas of expertise.
- Certified mediator in commercial matters
- Appointed by the Enterprise Court as a mediator in disputes between partners with particular expertise in disputes of exclusions and exits of partners.
- Has successfully assisted many struggling companies in their reorganisation in the context of judicial reorganisation proceedings.
- He handles maritime and inland navigation cases as well as maritime industrial accidents on a daily basis.
- He was also repeatedly appointed by the Attachment Judge of the Court of First Instance of East and West Flanders as ship's liquidator of maritime and inland vessels.
- In 2022, he was sworn in as ship liquidator and as liquidator of the maritime limitation fund under the new Shipping Code.
