Niels De Waele
Senior Associate
Antwerp

Niels De Waele
Senior Associate
Antwerp
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Niels has extensive experience in advising financial institutions on a wide variety of regulatory matters, including prudential regulations, governance requirements and conduct of business rules applicable to credit institutions, investment firms, funds and fund managers, settlement institutions, (re)insurance undertakings, credit and insurance intermediaries and innovative FinTech and InsurTech entreprises.
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Publications: 21 March 2022
Great Fund Insights: The Belgian "European long-term investment fund" (the ELTIF): A breakthrough?
In Belgium, as in many other EU countries, the ELTIF has not gained a foothold partly due to the absence of an attractive tax regime.
Publications: 16 March 2022
What ELTIFs’ recent developments mean for the real estate market
Publications: 10 March 2022
The Belgian “European Long-Term Investment Fund” (the ELTIF): A breakthrough?

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Published work
- Kierszenbaum, S., De Dijn, S., De Waele, N. (2021), "Belgian Brexit update following the hard Brexit for financial services", 2021, Bank Fin.R., afl. 1, 34-43.
- Kierszenbaum, S. and De Waele, N. (2020) A piece on “the impact of the new Belgian Companies and Associations Code on the governance structure of financial institutions” in: Impact du nouveau droit des sociétés sur le secteur financier / De impact van het nieuwe vennootschapsrecht op de financiële sector, 2020, Larcier Legal
- Kierszenbaum, S. and De Waele, N. (2019) “Banking, investment and insurance services after Brexit: Loss of passporting rights and impact on existing cross-border business”, 2019, Larcier Legal
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