Contact

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Areas of Expertise

Dimitri de Bournonville

Expertise

Dimitri has extensive experience in aircraft purchase, finance and operating leases and commercial transactions in relation to aircraft and aviation activities, cargo and passengers related. Dimitri also assists airlines and other organisations in the aviation sector with regulatory matters, particularly in matters concerning European Union.
Having worked at and held the function of Legal & Insurance Director of the TNT Express group before joining Gates and Partners, Dimitri possesses significant expertise in the general transportation, logistics and supply chain sectors. These sectors of activity have grown exponentially over the past two decades and Dimitri provides legal assistance as to all aspects of his clients’ activities in these areas: management of claims and litigation portfolio, drafting and negotiation of complex multi-modal transportation and supply chain agreements (including 3PL or 4PL type of arrangements), development and implementation of global terms and conditions of carriage and other services, customs and export controls and review of global or local operational processes in light of transnational regulatory requirements. His experience covers all the major logistics business segments, including automotive, industrial, health care, lifestyle, telecommunications, electronics, computing and semiconductors.

Dimitri also has substantial experience, notably acquired at the Brussels and Paris Bars, in mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial transactions and law (which he lectured at Brussels University), multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration.

Career

  • Director Legal & Insurance TNT Express Head Office, 2006-2010
  • Head of Legal & Insurance TNT Express Italy, 2005-2006
  • Head of Legal TNT Airways and Global Networks, 2003-2005
  • Attorney-at-Law, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Brussels, 2001-2003
  • Attorney-at-Law, Moquet Borde, Dieux & Partners, Brussels and Paris, 1995-2001

Education

  • Attorney-at-Law, admitted in Brussels, Belgium, 1995.
  • LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law, King’s College London, 1995
  • Licence en droit (magna cum laude), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 1994

Publications and Lecturing

  • Lecturer at the Brussels University Faculty of Law (1997-2005), for the courses of Introduction to Private Law (Company Law, Securities Law, Bankruptcy) and Commercial Law (Company Law, Finance Law, Negotiable Instruments, Bankruptcy)
  • Conference on the “Transversal and distance management of teams and projects”, Seminar organized in Paris by the Association Française des Juristes d’Entreprise in 2010
  • Invited Lecturer at Kalmar University, Sweden in 2000, for the course of International Business Law (Business International Private Law, Drafting and Negotiation of International Commercial Agreements, Payment and Guarantee Mechanisms, European Business Law)
  • “Building an Effective Antitrust Compliance Program in Europe”, European Briefings, Association of Corporate Counsel, 2009 (together with Sean Paul Brankin).
  • Conference on the “Civil Aspects of State Aids Restitution”, Seminar of the Commercial Law Department of Liège University on State Aids, Liège University, 1998
  • “Civil Aspects of State Aids Restitution and States Liability” in “Les Aides d’Etat en Droit Communautaire et en Droit National”, Bruylant Editions, 1999 (together with Xavier Dieux).
  • Conference on the “Contribution and difficulties of French Law”, Juriconnexion Seminar on Electronic Access to French Law, Paris, Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur, 1998.

Languages

English, French, Dutch, Italian and Bulgarian.

Interests

When he has time, Dimitri likes to travel to remote locations of the world with a backpack. His other interests include theatre, cinema, literature, high fidelity and graphic design.