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Marguerite Soete
Associate

Marguerite Soete

Languages
  • French
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Dutch

Marguerite specialises in European Law and Competition Law, in foreign subsidies (EU Foreign subsidies regulation) and more particularly in State aid. In this field, Marguerite assists both public authorities and companies on all aspects of State aid rules.

Her practice includes the legal assessment of the existence of aid and its compatibility, the preparation of notifications of individual aid or aid schemes to the European Commission and the drafting of the legal instruments necessary for their implementation.

She also participates in the representation of public authorities in the context of European Commission investigations on State aid (air transport, SGEI, tax exemption, etc.), drafts complaints and participates in the representation of public authorities or companies in litigation before national and European courts. She provides training in State aid matters.

She has gained experience in the transport sector and related infrastructures (air transport, airports, ports), waste, public investments and public service missions (financing of infrastructures, SGEIs, etc.).

She also assists companies and associations in the context of national grants (grants/recoverable advances granted to carry out research projects) and European grants (in particular in the context of grant agreements and consortium agreements concluded to carry out specific projects directly subsidised by the European Union).

Marguerite joined CMS in December 2015 and was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2019.

Awards & Recognitions
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    "Young but bright, solution oriented and quick thinker."
    Feedback from a client, Legal 500, 2022

Publications

  • M. SOETE & A. LEPIECE, " Arrêt ASIT Biotech : les abattements de créances publiques dans le cadre d’une procédure en réorganisation judiciaire au regard de la règlementation européenne en matière d’aides d’Etat », Competitio, maart 2022 ;
  • M. SOETE & A. LEPIECE, “ Aid schemes : an overview of EU and national cases ”, Concurrences, 28/01/2021.
  • M. SOETE & A. LEPIECE, “ 25 years of existence ! An overview of the BCA’s activity ”, in the Financier Worldwide, June 2019.
  • M. SOETE, “ State aid and the General Block Exemption Regulation ”, Lexis Nexis, February 2019.
  • M. SOETE & A. LEPIECE,  “ Les subventions du D.G.A.S. au regard de la réglementation européenne en matière d’aides d’état  ” , in Le décret de gestion et d’assainissement des sols du 1er mars 2018 “  (D.G.A.S.), Larcier, January 2019.
  • M. SOETE, “ Arrêt ERSTE Bank Hungary : clauses abusives et rôle du notaire dans l'apposition de la formule exécutoire ”, European Journal of Consumer Law, 2015/2.

Lectures list

  • 12/05/2021 & 17/05/2021: « Les aides d’Etat » with A. Lepièce, S.R.I.W.;
  • 17/12/2020: « COVID-19: How to support the companies under State aid rules? », with A. Lepièce, Amcham Belgium;
  • 04/02/2020: « Mesures incitatives en faveur des compagnies aériennes en droit européen » with A. Lepièce, Aéroports de Lyon;
  • 20/01/2020: « Les aides d’Etat » with A. Lepièce, Service Public de Wallonie.

Education

  • 2016 - Bar admission (Brussels, Belgium)
  • 2015 - University of Sherbrooke, Canada (Erasmus)
  • 2015 - University of Louvain, UCLouvain - Belgium (Master of Laws)