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Thierry Blockerye

Thierry Blockerye

Title
Partner
Office
Clifford Chance, Brussels | View map
Practice
Tax
Sector
Private equity, Real estate
Publications
11

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Tel
+3225335061

Experience and career history

Thierry Blockerye's tax practice has a strong focus on real estate and taxation issues of mergers & acquisitions.  His clients include local and international real estate developers and investors, Belgian real estate investment trusts, private equity funds or ventures.  Thierry deals with corporate income tax, personal tax, VAT, international tax, fund structuring and obtaining tax rulings aimed at reducing transfer tax or at optimising VAT treatment, supported by his excellent relationships with the tax authorities.

Thierry is a speaker at various seminars and conferences dealing with tax optimisation of M&A transactions.

Université Catholique de Louvain (licence en droit/ law degree) 1985
Université Libre de Bruxelles (licence spéciale en droit fiscal/ tax law degree) 1986
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (getuigschrift in International Recht/ international law degree) 1987
Associate, Coopers & Lybrand 1988
Tax Partner, PriceWaterhouseCoopers 1996
Joined Clifford Chance as a partner 2001
Admitted as an avocat in Brussels 2004
Managing Partner of the Belgian group since 2010

Speaks French, English and Dutch

Professional bodies

Member of the International Fiscal Association. 

Professor at the Maîtrise en Gestion Fiscale (ULB) and teaches at the Superieure Ecole des Sciences Fiscales (ESSF) "Mergers & Acquisitions" of in-depth corporate income tax.

Tax coordinator at the Executive Master in real estate (UCL, ICHEC).

Highlights of deals and projects

Thierry advised:

  • Befimmo, a Belgian Reit, with respect to the transformation of its subsidiary Fedimmo, into an institutional Sicafi;
  • Cobepa, Benjamin de Rotschild and Be Citizen on the incorporation and funding of BeCapital, a luxembourg equity fund specialised in cleal Tech acquisitions;
  • Eurostar International Ltd, with respect to the contribution by SNCB/NMBS of its Eurostar assets;
  • Evans Randall in relation to the EUR 240 million acquisition of the shares in Covent Garden Real Estate SA.

Citations and awards

Highly recommended Belgian tax lawyer in the latest editions of Chambers Global, Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer?, International Tax Review, Tax Directors Handbook and European Legal Experts

Recommended real estate lawyer by PLC Which Lawyer?

Thierry Blockerye is widely recognised as “possibly the number-one tax lawyer in Belgium.”

Chambers Europe 2012, Real Estate

Considered to be "the king" in real estate tax work, Thierry Blockerye wins praise for his "proactive and commercial" service.

Chambers Europe 2012, Tax

Publications

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