Arnoud is a trade partner at Baker McKenzie and has over 25 years of
experience as a respected and trusted advisor of entrepreneurs, executives, and
diplomats with an extensive network. He
helps clients to navigate through complex rules and in their
decision-making processes, manage their risks, become more successful and
proactive in their long-term planning and strategy. Arnoud has been
consistently recognized by various platforms as one of the key trade and
customs lawyers in Europe/Belgium e.g. Lexology
Client Choice Awards, Chambers, Best
Lawyers, WhosWho Legal, WorldECR
and in the last 15
years was ranked in the top band. In support
of this ranking, clients referred to Arnoud as a “born strategist”,
“visionary”, “tenacious”, “results driven”, and “pro-active”. Arnoud strives to
make legal rules understandable for the company decision makers, look for
practical solutions, break new ground support closing legal gaps, getting regulators to
adapt or clarify rules to make them more
useful, predictable, and uniform, and, where possible, create new
rules