Avocat / Advocaat – Member of the Brussels Bar
LL.B. "magna cum laude" (Brussels University - ULB)
LL.M. in Japanese private law (Chuo University, Tokyo)
Eric Resler was admitted to the Brussels bar in 1986. While working for a leading international law firm in Brussels (De Bandt, van Hecke & Lagae, subsequently Linklaters), he spent over five years in Japan as a comparative law researcher, a post-graduate law student and a foreign legal consultant in a Japanese international law firm. He then resumed his practice with De Bandt, van Hecke & Lagae and subsequently practiced at Landwell, the former network of correspondent law firms of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
Eric is a general business lawyer experienced in a variety of areas, including international distribution, general commercial transactions and intellectual property.
He has also developed special expertise in the streamlining of multinationals' business activities internationally, focusing on the centralization of risk and management (by means of a wide variety of services agreements, such as toll manufacturing, commissionaire, finance, etc.) or on intellectual property migration in order to improve operational efficiency and global tax position (in co-operation with tax experts).
Eric is a general business lawyer experienced in a variety of areas, including international distribution, general commercial transactions and intellectual property.
He has also developed special expertise in the streamlining of multinationals' business activities internationally, focusing on the centralization of risk and management (by means of a wide variety of services agreements, such as toll manufacturing, commissionaire, finance, etc.) or on intellectual property migration in order to improve operational efficiency and global tax position (in co-operation with tax experts).
He has advised the EU Commission and the Ukrainian national and local authorities in the framework of the conversion and restructuring of Pivdenmash (Ukraine's largest military-industrial complex) on issues such as feasibility of technical assistance, Ukraine's legal and tax environment, foreign investment, and privatization / concession of public utilities.
Eric has taught Modern Japanese Law at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) and is a longstanding member of the Belgium-Japan Chamber of Commerce (Tax & Legal Committee + EU Committee). He advises on the legal aspects of doing business with or in Japan in cooperation with Japanese lawyers based in Japan.
Languages: French, English, Dutch, Japanese
E-mail: eric.resler@altra-law.com
PUBLICATIONS
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Between Commercial Agency and Distributorship: The Commissionaire Structure, International Business Lawyer, May 2002.
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Rush to file your service mark application in Japan, International Financial Law Review, September 1992.
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The Japanese from a European perspective, Houritsu Kyoushitsu, 1990.
PRESENTATIONS
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Counterfeiting: a worldwide plague – Legal protective tools available to the holders of IP rights under Belgian law, Conference on the Council of Europe convention on the suppression of counterfeiting and trafficking in counterfeit goods, International Press Center, Brussels, 2 May 2007.
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Legal aspects of distribution in Japan, Walloon Export Agency (AWEX), June 2003.
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Master the drafting of international commercial agreements (rules governing international commercial agreements and identification/drafting of the important clauses), IFE conference on International Commercial Agreements, June 2001.
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Legal aspects of E-business, various presentations in the course of 2000.
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Negotiation and enforcement of international contracts with Japanese companies, EFE conference on the Designing and Enforcement of International Contracts, March 1999.
- Product liability concerns, presentation at various seminars, 1993-1994.
