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 De Bandt), 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 De Backer & Partners and Landwell (the former network of "correspondent law firms of PriceWaterhouseCoopers").

Eric Resler is a general business lawyer experienced in a variety of areas, including international distribution, commercial transactions, insurance, intellectual property and employment.

He has also developed special expertise in the streamlining of multinationals' business activities internationally, focusing on the centralisation of risk and management 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 Resler is a 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 and has taught Modern Japanese Law at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL).

Languages: French, English, Japanese, Dutch

Email: eric.resler@altra-law.com

Publications:

• Between Commercial Agency and Distributorship: The Commissionaire Structure, International Business Lawyer, May 2002.

• Rush to file your service mark application in Japan, International Financial Law Review, September 1992.

• The Japanese from a European perspective, Houritsu Kyoushitsu, 1990.

Presentations:

• Legal aspects of distribution in Japan, Walloon Export Agency (AWEX), June 2003.

• 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.

• Legal aspects of E-business, various presentations in the course of 2000.

• 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.