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Emmanuel Ruchat has been a lawyer since 1996. He holds a business management degree, a master in business law and an applied postgraduate degree (DESS) in insurance and liability law.
His practice in life insurance lead him to deal with group insurance for employees, and then with employment law issues and international mobility of workers. Every year he is also classified as one of the best in business and corporate immigration lawyers for self-employed and executive employees. Emmanuel has authored many articles about these topics. He is the author of Foreign Executives (Les cadres étrangers, Kluwer, 2005 and 2007). In 2003 he founded Lexial Val d’Europe, a not-for-profit group that examines issues related to international mobility.
He is also licensed to litigate at Supreme Court in criminal law since February 2016 according to Article 425 § 1 of Criminal Code. From 2007 to 2012 he worked with the famous criminal lawyer Michel Graindorge, with whom he organized in 2008 the General Assembly on Prisons in France and in Belgium, with the former French Justice Minister Robert Badinter. In February 2010 he was the first lawyer to raise in a Belgian criminal court the right, for a person accused of murder, to be assisted by an attorney as from the first hearing by the police (which was confirmed in this case by the European Court of Human Rights in 2018). He is a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (The Hague). He is a co-author of Fundamental Rights (Our Knowledge Publishing, 2022).
Emmanuel has a great expertise in proceedings related to EU sanctions and co-authored a book about actions in damages arising from such sanctions (Damages in EU Law, Lambert, 2022).
Emmanuel is recognized since 2016 by the Bar Association with the title of Specialist in Immigration Law and in Criminal Law. He taught international human resources law at the Institute of Business Administration (IAE) in Lille. He is a member of the Swiss Business Council for Belgium and Luxemburg.
In 2017 he founded a European LREM committee (political movement created by French President Emmanuel Macron) in Brussels. He worked with Michel Barnier (current French Prime Minister) within the framework of “Nouvelle Republique” from 2003 to 2008, as well as Senator Jean-Marie Bockel (“Gauche Moderne”) from 2008 to 2010. In 2008, Emmanuel participated in drawing up with MEP Alain Lamassoure a report titled “Citizens and European law enforcement”, submitted to President Sarkozy. He wrote articles in his blog for Le Monde from August 2017 to August 2018.
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Maître Ruchat (Lexial) : expertise juridique et engagement, Le Figaro
Maître Ruchat (Lexial) : expertise juridique et engagement, Le Figaro, 2024
De l’arrêt Allée à la directive sur les procédures-bâillons, la liberté d’expression dévoyée
La Tribune, 15 mai 2024
SA’s Narcos Capture – the Mandrax trafficker and ‘wanted terrorist’ matrix haunting the ANC, Zuma, Guptas
Daily Maverick, March 2nd, 2024
Emmanuel Ruchat : « Notre objectif est d’informer les victimes du wokisme et de MeToo sur les outils juridiques disponibles »
Le Monde du Droit, 21 novembre 2023 Pour lire l’article, cliquez ici
Emmanuel Ruchat in Swiftnlift Magazine
October 2023
La France nid d’espions
Le Point, 2022
Lexial is a leading law firm
Acquisition International, 03.2021
What happens when marriage with a Saudi citizen does not work out?
Brussels Morning, 23.02.2021
Il serait temps de vraiment faciliter l’investissement étranger en France
La Tribune, 17.02.2021
Enquête – Le nouveau droit des sociétés
JV magazine, octobre 2020
Les flux d’argent vers la Belgique
Le Soir, 12.08.2020
Des sociétés dans des paradis fiscaux à tous les étages
Le Soir, 12.08.2020
Quand le Kazakhstan envoyait ses barbouzes traquer une opposante
Le Soir, 06.11.2019
Belgium’s Second Kazakhgate Unfolds
The Brussels Times, 21.11.2019
EMMANUEL RUCHAT: WHY INVESTORS SHOULD STILL CONSIDER FRANCE AND BELGIUM
Emmanuel Ruchat in Lawyers Monthly, Thought Leader, Why Investors Should Still Consider France and Belgium, September 2019
L’ex-président de l’Equateur demande l’asile à la Belgique
La Capitale, 31.08.2018
EMMANUEL RUCHAT ADVISED A TV JOURNALIST
Correa podria terminar ante una corte criminal en Belgica: Elenfoque, 22.08.2018
Emmanuel Ruchat advised a former Ukrainian politician
Unian, 15.03.2017
E. Ruchat in Lawyers Monthly, Corporate Immigration Law
December 2016
L’avenir – 21/04/2015
L’Avenir, 21.04.2015
E. Ruchat dans JV Magazine
JV Magazine, mars 2014
Emmanuel Ruchat conseille un homme d’affaires syrien
Entreprendre, février 2012
EMMANUEL RUCHAT / DROIT PENAL
La Nouvelle Gazette, February 2010
Emmanuel Ruchat invité aux Déjeuners du Fouquet’s de Michel Clerc
Emmanuel Ruchat invité aux Déjeuners du Fouquet’s de Michel Clerc avec Christophe Regnard (président de l’Union syndicale des magistrats), Anne Roumanoff, René de Obaldia, Gonzague St-Bris, Anne-Marie Mitterrand: Entreprendre, septembre 2009
Relativiser la proposition Bolkestein
L’Echo, 09.04.2005