Birgitta Van Itterbeek (°1965, Leuven) is senior partner at Monard Law and advises and litigates in the following areas:
• Transport law, more in particular Aviation law, with a special focus on aircraft finance and leasing, regulatory an insurance matters
• Financial law including secured and unsecured financing, project, asset and structured finance, leasing and acquisition finance
• Insurance law, with a special focus on directors’ liability and errors and omissions insurance, reinsurance and retrocessions and regulatory issues
She regularly advises airlines, charter companies and lessors. She has also counselled Belgian and foreign companies, venture capital funds and banks on matters of acquisition finance and secured and unsecured lending and leasing. Birgitta regularly assists reinsurance and insurance companies.
Birgitta received her law degree from KU Leuven (1988) and holds an LL.M (1989) from the University of Virginia School of Law as a Fulbright Scholar. Birgitta joined the firm on 1 April 2012. Prior to joining the firm she has been partner at Dugardyn & Partners office as of 1 September 2006. Before that she was partner at NautaDutilh in Brussels and head of asset finance at Loyens in Brussels. Birgitta also was senior in-house counsel at Sabena, responsible for overseeing the fleet and financing of the Sabena group.
Birgitta publishes regularly on selected topics in the field of aviation and financial law and is frequently invited to speak at seminars.
She is selected by Who’s Who of Aviation Lawyers and of Business lawyers as a world leading Aviation Lawyer, by Legal 500 as a leading individual and tier one lawyer. She is a member of Women on Board.
She is a member of the Brussels bar.
Monard Law is one of the leading independent law firms in Belgium with about 100 lawyers spread out over 4 offices. Monard Law offers a comprehensive range of legal services to both local and foreign corporations as well as governments, financial institutions and wealthy private individuals.
The lawyers at Monard Law operate in specialised practice groups. Their aim is to provide concrete and practical solutions.
We value a personal relationship with our clients. We therefore believe that each problem and each client deserves the hands-on involvement of (at least) one partner of the firm.
If the need arises, Monard Law can provide immediate assistance with procedures before any court or tribunal. Most of our lawyers are experienced litigators who continuously confront legal theory with legal practise.
The firm also assists clients with professional advice regarding proposed projects, transactions and negotiations and through mediation. The firm’s lawyers have acquired extensive experience in a wide variety of economic sectors.
The firm regularly handles international matters for Belgian and foreign clients. Our lawyers work in Dutch, French, English and German. Monard Law is well represented outside Belgium through a network of European law firms of similar standing.
