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Elke Duden

Partner
Lawyer

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Elke Duden

Partner
Lawyer

CMS DeBacker
Uitbreidingstraat 2
2600 Antwerp
Belgium
Languages Dutch, English, French, German

Elke is a partner in the Employment, Pensions & Benefits practice, where she heads the Pensions practice.

She deals with all aspects of employment law and occupational pension law. She advises on day to day HR issues, employee incentive schemes, HR restructuring, employment litigation, health & safety, senior executives. Her practice concentrates on two specific niches: (i) collective labour issues of large corporate reorganisations; and (ii) specific projects in the area of pensions (i.e. merger and goverance of pan-european pension funds, restructuring or winding down of pension schemes, complex litigation).

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Memberships & Roles

  • Board member BePLA
  • Member IPEBLA
  • Member PensioPlus
  • Member Employment Lawyers Association Antwerp
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Publications

  • Arbeidsrechtelijke, sociaalzekerheidsrechtelijke en pensioenaspecten bij bedrijfsovernames, Kluwer, 2010
  • De Wet Aanvullende Pensioenen is 10 jaar oud: De Belgian Pension Lawyers Association maakte een balans op, kluwer 2014
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Education

  • 2008 - Leerstoel pensioenrecht (KUL Leuven)
  • 2002 - The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • 2001 - Admitted to the Antwerp Bar
  • 1997 - Admitted to the Brussels Bar
  • 1997 - University of Antwerp (Master in Law)
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19/04/2021
CMS as­sisted Maxi Toys with re­spect to cross-bor­der re­struc­tur­ing
Nearly one year ago, CMS star­ted as­sist­ing the Maxi Toys group with head of­fices in Bel­gi­um and more than 200 shops and 1.200 em­ploy­ees spread over Bel­gi­um, France, Lux­em­bourg and Switzer­land with re­spect...
Deal (News) Corporate/M&A
28/12/2020
CMS Bel­gi­um as­sisted the share­hold­er of Phi Data in the sale of 70% of...
The share­hold­er of Phi Data, spe­cial­ised in smart edge solu­tions, sold 70% of their shares to the Simac Group. This col­lab­or­a­tion strengthens the in­ter­na­tion­al am­bi­tions of both com­pan­ies, with pos­sible...
Deal (News) Corporate/M&A
24 June 2020
We­bin­ar re­cord­ings - Cov­id-19 (Coronavir­us) in Bel­gi­um
Watch the re­cord­ings of we­binars where our spe­cial­ists tackle some im­port­ant as­pects and prac­tic­al steps that busi­nesses should take in­to con­sid­er­a­tion in light of the COV­ID-19 (coronavir­us) out­break...
Publication Coronavirus (COVID-19)
June 2020
CMS Em­ploy­ment & Pen­sions Glob­al Bro­chure
In the people busi­ness The CMS net­work cov­ers 43 coun­tries with over 70 of­fices world­wide. We have the largest team of em­ploy­ment spe­cial­ists in Europe and a strong pres­ence in the Afric­an, Asi­an and...
Brochure Employment & Pensions
26 May 2020
UP­DATE – Do em­ploy­ees still be­ne­fit from death cov­er­age or an ac­cru­al of...
What is the im­pact of Cov­id-19 on the ac­cru­al of oc­cu­pa­tion­al pen­sion rights and on death cov­er­age? The Law of 7 May 2020 ob­liges em­ploy­ers to re­view and ad­apt their strategy ac­cord­ingly and com­mu­nic­ate...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
14 May 2020
CMS We­bin­ar | Cov­id-19: How to re­duce your man­power costs: im­pact on bo­nus,...
Due to the cur­rent Cov­id-19 health crisis, a lot of com­pan­ies suf­fer eco­nom­ic losses. Non-es­sen­tial com­pan­ies that had to close down on 18 March are re-open­ing of­fices as from May 2020. Tele­work is still...
Event Coronavirus (COVID-19)
12 May 2020
We­bin­ar - In­vit­a­tion Cov­id-19: Pub­lic sec­tor - How to man­age your work­ers...
On 4 May 2020 all non-es­sen­tial com­pan­ies, which had to close on 18 March as they could not guar­an­tee ‘so­cial dis­tan­cing’, have been al­lowed to re­sume their work. However, a series of health meas­ures...
Event Coronavirus (COVID-19)
16 April 2020
Do em­ploy­ees still have death cov­er or an ac­cru­al of pen­sion rights when...
1. AC­CRU­AL OF PEN­SION RIGHTS The corona crisis is hav­ing an im­pact on many as­pects of every­day life. Cur­rently, a lot of em­ploy­ees are tem­por­ar­ily un­em­ployed due to force ma­jeure. Con­sequently, their...
Law-Now Coronavirus (COVID-19)
27 March 2020
Min­is­ter of Justice wants to en­force writ­ten pro­ced­ure dur­ing lock­down
In Bel­gi­um, the Min­is­ter of Justice, Koen Geens, has pro­posed a draft Roy­al De­cree aimed at gen­er­al­ising the writ­ten pro­ced­ure for all dis­putes cur­rently pending be­fore the Bel­gian courts. The draft aims...
Law-Now Tax
20/03/2020
We­bin­ar Re­cord­ing: Cov­id-19 (Coronavir­us) – Key Em­ploy­ment Con­sid­er­a­tions
Watch the re­cord­ing of our CMS we­bin­ar in which our em­ploy­ment law ex­perts dis­cussed the key is­sues that busi­nesses face in the com­ing weeks and months due to the COV­ID-19 (coronavir­us). The present­a­tion...
Publication Coronavirus (COVID-19)
19 March 2020
We­bin­ar: Cov­id-19 (Coronavir­us) – Key Em­ploy­ment Con­sid­er­a­tions
The re­cent rise of Cov­id-19 (Coronavir­us) re­ceives a lot of at­ten­tion and an in­creas­ing worry world­wide. It has caused gov­ern­ments world­wide to take pro­ceed­ings, such as isol­at­ing cer­tain cit­ies, can­cel­ling...
Event Coronavirus (COVID-19)
05/03/2020
CORONA-VIR­US : Prac­tic­al guide with com­mer­cial and leg­al top­ics/re­com­mend­a­tions
We have drawn up this prac­tic­al guide to as­sist the leg­al teams of com­pan­ies in the way in which they deal with the chal­lenges they are con­fron­ted with, con­nec­ted to the fast and world­wide spread of the...
Guide Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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