Member Profile

Emmanuel Ruchat has been a lawyer since 1996. He holds a business management degree, a master’s in business law and an applied postgraduate degree (DESS) in insurance law.

He started his career with a top-tier law firm, practising life insurance law, especially group insurance which then led him to develop a legal approach to human resources and employment law. Since then, he has developed a particular expertise in Belgian, Swiss and French immigration, criminal, business and labour law. He specializes in the international and European application of these fields. He worked with the famous Belgian criminal lawyer Michel Graindorge from 2007 to 2012.

Emmanuel has authored a number of articles about these topics. In 2005 and 2007 he published a book on professional immigration, Les cadres étrangers [Foreign Executives] (Kluwer). In 2003 he founded Lexial Val d'Europe, a not-for-profit group that examines issues related to international mobility. He taught international human resources law at the Institut d'administration des entreprises (IAE) in Lille. He is a member of the Swiss Business Council for Belgium and Luxemburg.

• Corporate Immigration 2014: Belgium, GLG, 1st Edition

• The French Residence Card for an Exceptional Economic Contribution, hg.org, 2014

• Belgian Business Immigration, Lexial, 2014

• The New Belgian Law on Citizenship, hg.org, 2013

• How to Get Belgian Professional Card, 2012, hg.org