I specialize in providing support to businesses and top-tier executives, navigating them through intricate and strategically crucial HR-Law related questions. My clientele encompasses both esteemed European and global enterprises, as well as dynamic SMEs. With a profound focus on individual and collective labour and employment law matters, my expertise extends to a wide spectrum of critical areas, including employment contracts, workforce transitions, and the legal nuances surrounding the international mobility of employees, including international social security and business migration. My advisory prowess also extends to navigating non-compete agreements and restrictive covenants, ensuring privacy within the workplace, defining employee and self-employed status, optimizing flexibility in work conditions, and managing complex employment issues within the context of Mergers and Acquisitions (e.g., TUPE regulations). I handle collective layoffs, corporate closures, and am well-versed in addressing social disputes and union-led industrial actions. My portfolio also includes executive compensation structuring, addressing the unique status of platform workers, strategizing staff lending scenarios and extending unwavering assistance to companies embroiled in government audits or disputes, as well as representing clients in employment litigation before the Courts.
Beyond my professional endeavours, I am deeply passionate about being a professor of employment law at the University College of Brussels (Odisee/KUL), and I hold the role of co-editor for a Legal Journal published by Kluwer. Moreover, I am regularly invited to lecture on employment law issues at renowned institutions such as European Academy of Law (ERA), American Bar Association (ABA), Kluwer International, and International Bar Association (IBA), where I blend my extensive technical knowledge with a highly practical approach.
My continuous commitment to excellence has secured my place in the Legal 500 'Hall of Fame, a distinction reserved for 'lawyers who have garnered continuous praise from clients for their unwavering excellence'. Clients have consistently commended my immediate responsiveness, legal acumen in (European) employment law, and my creative and pragmatic problem-solving abilities. I pride myself on being a 'pleasure to work with', 'driven by my deep knowledge', 'unwavering dedication and passion', and an innate ability to 'resolve complex issues to the satisfaction of my clients' (as endorsed by Chambers EU, Legal 500, Who'swho of Business Lawyers, Leader's league and Best Lawyers). I am also honoured to have received the 'Lexology Corporate Counsel Client Choice Award in 2021 and 2022', as well as recently (2023) the title of Belgian's most influential employment lawyer by 'Business Today'.
I am fluent in English, Dutch, and French, ensuring seamless communication with my esteemed clients.
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What others sayโฆ
Chambers listing Stefan and his team since 2008. In 2023 Stefan is mentioned for assist clients with employee dismissals, either as part of restructurings or following allegations of harassment and discrimination. "Stefan Nerinckx is extremely straightforward and easy to talk to, always using practical language."
Also in 2023 and for 12 years in a row 'Legal 500' has indicated Stefan as being one of the ten 'Leading Individuals' for employment law in Belgium and included in the 'Hall of Fame'. Over the years Stefan was praised for being a ‘leading individual’, ‘responsive’, ‘well connected’, ‘very committed to his clients’ and an ‘excellent litigator and negotiator‘. He and his team are being recognised as '๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ', '๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐-๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐', '๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ' and '๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐น๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ'.
Awarded the Corporate Counsel Client Choice Award in 2021 and 2022
Belgian's most influential employment lawyer in 2023
The 'always available' Stefan Nerinckx leads the team. Availability, expertise transparency and innovation are some of the qualities of Stefan Nerinckx’s team. Stefan Nerinckx is pragmatic and clients like dealing with him, because of his knowledge, commitment and problem solving capabilities.
Commentators say Stefan Nerinckx is very creative and always a pleasure to work with.
"Knowledgeable and client-focused" with "in-depth knowledge" and a “pragmatic approach”.
