Lawyer Monthly Magazine - September 2019 Edition

86 WWW.LAWYER-MONTHLY.COM | SEP 2019 Lexial has been the leading law firm in the field of business and corporate immigration in Belgium and in France since 2007. Who are your clients? Most of them are investors, starters and executives from the Middle East, Russia and China. But more and more, Belgium and mainly France, have become attractive for nationals from many other countries, including Americans and of course, the British due to Brexit. France was ranked the 5th most attractive country in the world by A.T.Kearney this year and Paris (given its central geographic position) is clearly in a very good place to challenge Frankfurt as a major financial district. Broadly speaking, different kind of threats, both on economic and security levels, encourage businessmen to secure a second-place of residency and citizenship as a backup plan. BUSINESS AND CORPORATE IMMIGRATION LAW WHY INVESTORS SHOULD STILL CONSIDER FRANCE AND BELGIUM Emmanuel Ruchat has recently expanded his practice to other jurisdictions following the needs and demands of his clients. Below, he touches on corporate immigration, mainly in France, Belgium and Switzerland, and why these countries remain a place of interest for corporations. But in both countries, there are also some problems: yellow jackets movement in France, elections in Belgium. What does this mean? That is absolutely correct, but such factors do not prevent stability, and they eventually subside, as we have seen with the yellow jackets movement. Even if it comes back, it can’t block the country from progressing, because institutions are very strong in France. In Belgium, it is different: even when there is no Federal government, we cannot forget thattherearethreegovernments at work in the region. On a more general level, I would say that EU is a place of peace and stability, and it has been for the past 75 years, despite sporadic crisis and, as everywhere in the world, some nationalist trends. This doesn’t prevent the EU from being the first market in “On a more general level, I would say that EU is a place of peace and stability, and it has been for the past 75 years, despite sporadic crisis and, as everywhere in the world, some nationalist trends.” Thought Leader Emmanuel Ruchat, LEXIAL

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