Healthcare

The Belgian healthcare industry is constantly evolving and faces a broad range of challenges (including funding issues, staffing issues, infrastructural needs, issues related to the structuring of healthcare entities and collaborative ventures, a stringent and rapidly developing regulatory framework, issues arising from the public-service nature of healthcare provision, etc.).

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Your contacts in Healthcare

Therefore, assisting clients in the healthcare industry primarily requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to devise comprehensive, innovative and compliant solutions.

As an independent law firm offering a full spectrum of highly specialised services through a team of leading attorneys, Eubelius has forged strong links with the healthcare sector. We have a solid track record in assisting public and private healthcare providers, as well as other stakeholders in the industry, in relation to a broad range of matters. We offer the right expertise and competence – precisely when it is needed, and always in the most cost-effective manner.

Some of our references

  • Advising loco-regional clinical hospital networks with regard to, inter alia, their governance structure and the structuring of their partnerships with operators of healthcare services.
  • Providing tax and employment law advice for structuring partnerships between healthcare service providers.
  • Assisting various project developers with the legal framework for having approved groups of sheltered housing in their property projects.
  • Assisting healthcare operators and investors with the acquisition of healthcare service providers.
  • Providing tax structuring advice to hospitals in relation to the redevelopment and the commercialisation of their hospital site.
  • Assisting hospitals in various complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, participation in start-ups, real estate transactions and commercial agreements with life sciences service providers.
  • Assisting hospitals in the modernisation and optimisation of their governance structure, including aligning their by-laws and internal regulations with the requirements of the Belgian Code of Companies and Associations.
  • Assisting hospitals, retirement homes, residential care homes, healthcare networks, etc. in the development and application of personnel policy and support in labour disputes.
  • Assisting investors and healthcare operators with regard to regulations on prior authorisations for developing and operating retirement homes.
  • Application of the decree on local government and association law to CPAS subsidiaries with healthcare activities.
  • Representing a healthcare facility provider and developer in complex litigation regarding healthcare projects.