Gauthier van Thuyne

Partner Environment and Sanctions | Public law, FDI, defense | Environmental and climate | Head of Belgian Sustainability team | Ranked Band 1 Legal 500 and Chambers Planning, Environment, Chemicals (Belgium and Europe)

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

Specialties: ESG- sustainability; environmental law; (green) energy, climate change and emissions trading, chemicals; public law; public procurement; FDI

Experience

  • Partner at A&O Shearman
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Partner at Allen & Overy
    May 2006 - May 2024 · 18 yrs 1 mo

    I am specialising in local (waste, planning and building regulations, contaminated sites, protected species and habitats, environmental permitting, environmental compliance, waste, polluted sites, noise (and other statutory nuisance, permit compliance and related enforcement and litigation) and international (EU-wide) work (including WEEE/RoHS, product regulation, eco-design, CE-marking, take-back and waste work, REACH and climate change). I am part of A&O Brussels Real Estate Team, focusing on admin and env issues in real estate transactions- including focusing on public domain, concession, planning and economic expansion issues. I'm also part of A&O "Human Rights Interest Group", and a member of the IBA Task Force on "Climate Change and Human Rights", and also focus on CSR.

  • attorney at Loeff Claeys Verbeke (Allen & Overy Belgium)
    1994 - 2005 · 11 yrs

  • assistent (privaatrechtelijk) milieurecht at Ghent University
    1999 - 2003 · 4 yrs

  • attorney at Loeff Claeys Verbeke
    1994 - 2000 · 6 yrs