Professional Secrecy of Lawyers in Europe

Dirk Van Gerven is a partner in the Brussels office of NautaDutilh (a leading Benelux law firm) and a member of the Brussels and New York Bars. He has extensive experience in all areas of corporate and financial law. He served as President of the Dutch-speaking section of the Brussels Bar from 2010 to 2012 and has published widely in the fields of corporate and financial law and ethics. He has also been a member of the supervisory board of Belgium's Financial Services and Markets Authority (previously the Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission) since 2003, presiding over it since 2011.

Foreword Jean-Pierre Buyle and Dirk Van Gerven; 1. Professional secrecy in Europe Dirk Van Gerven; 2. The CCBE rules on professional secrecy Georges-Albert Dal; 3. Austria Michael Kutschera; 4. Belgium Dirk Van Gerven; 5. Bulgaria Kina Chuturkova, Raina Dimitrova and Mihail Vishanin; 6. Cyprus Alexandros Tsadiras; 7. Czech Republic Petr Cáp; 8. Denmark Lars Bo Langsted; 9. Estonia Katrin Kose; 10. Finland Petri Taivalkoski and Aini Juopperi; 11. France Sabine Du Granrut; 12. Germany Christian Dahns and Johannes Keller; 13. Greece Ilias Tompaidis and Konstantinos Voulgarakis; 14. Hungary János Bánáti; 15. Iceland Ólafur Arinbjörn Sigurosson and Sindri Guojónsson; 16. Ireland Liam Kennedy and Sarah Conroy; 17. Italy Antonella Brambilla; 18. Latvia Egils Radzins; 19. Liechtenstein Mario Frick; 20. Lithuania Akvile Bosaite and Karina Kuizinaite; 21. Luxembourg Marc Thewes; 22. Malta Max Ganado, Christine Borg and Thomas Cutts-Watson; 23. Netherlands Fokke Fernhout; 24. Norway John Christian Elden; 25. Poland Wojciech Marchwicki and Marek Nieduzak; 26. Portugal Ana Cristina Delgado; 27. Romania Gabriela Cacerea and Anca Mihailescu; 28. Slovakia Jozef Olej; 29. Slovenia Natasa Pipan Nahtigal and Tjasa Lahovnik; 30. Spain Nielson Sánchez Stewart; 31. Sweden Henrik Fieber and Minna Sjöstrand; 32. Switzerland Claudio Bazzani and Roman Richers; 33. United Kingdom Ronnie Fox, Shira Auerbach, Shirley Blair and Kirsteen Macdonald.