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Protection of client assets under Belgian law and trust-like structures

26 March 2024 / Author(s): Willem Van de Wiele
Issue: January 2022 / Categories: Feature

The purposes of this article is to give a brief overview of the reception of the trust concept under Belgian law, including the recognition of a foreign law trust, as well as to provide a description of certain trust-like structures under Belgian law.

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