He is the Belgium Sustainability Lead and a member of our Global Sustainability Board.

Gauthier advises companies on planning and environmental law - with a particular focus on permits for industry and manufacturing, real estate and energy projects. He specialises in climate change and European Green Deal regulations (including EU ETS, voluntary carbon markets, renewables, disclosures, reporting, policies, climate and greenwashing litigation), ESG and sustainability (with extensive experience in business and human rights and supply chain issues), and on energy transition projects and technologies.

He also assists public authorities, companies, banks, public-funded entities and utilities on all types of public contracts, including public-private partnerships (PPPs), public procurement and large transactions, such as concessions (water distribution, waste management etc).

Gauthier advises on compliance with REACH and other EU chemical regulations, as well as with EU product regulations (including ELV, Batteries, WEEE and RoHS) and waste, contaminated land, hazardous substances and environmental compliance issues.

Gauthier has a deep understanding of the different procedures, approaches and strategies required to deal with complex environmental and public law issues, and has extensive litigation experience in these areas of law before the administrative, civil and criminal courts, as well as before the European courts.