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Welcome to Raphaël!
16 September 2022Early September Raphaël Bonte joined Waeterinckx Attorneys Business Criminal Law. Raphaël studied à the Brussels ‘VUB’ university and obtained his master’s degree in criminal law in 2022 with great distinction. ...
read moreWaeterinckx Attorneys open a law office in Ghent as from September and start a collaboration with Van Eeghem Ondernemingsadvocaten.
3 September 2021We open a law office in Ghent as from September, and will start a collaboration with the reputed law office Van Eeghem OndernemingsAdvocaten (www.vaneeghem.com). For both offices a broadening and ...
read moreDiscover new talents and opportunities !
19 March 2021See how Evi, our office manager, gave her life a new dimension by evolving through temp work from hotel management to the world of attorneys and office management. Listen en ...
read moreRegister for a training session on business criminal law in December!
16 September 2020Business criminal law : latest legislation and jurisprudence. Interested? Register to one of the training sessions on December 8. Are you an attorney, a magistrate, a company lawyer, an accountant, ...
read moreWaeterinckx Attorneys strengthens its team
2 September 2020As from September 1 we welcome Willem Henckens in our office, as attorney of counsel. Willem Henckens is specialized in dispute resolution and litigation in the broad sense of the ...
read moreBook “Cryptomunten juridisch ontsloten” will be available soon.
27 May 2020Together with Mark Delanote and staff of Ghent University we will shortly lead you through the legal dimensions and implications of (the use) of cryptocurrencies, in the book “Cryptomunten juridisch ...
read moreWaeterinckx Vansteenkiste Attorneys broadens and deepens its expertise in corporate criminal law, human rights law and cassation procedures in criminal law.
15 May 2020Early May Joost Huysmans started working for Waeterinckx Vansteenkiste Attorneys. Joost is attorney and has a PhD in law. After his studies and his PhD, Joost specialized in corporate criminal ...
read moreJulie Petersen wins APR prize 2018
22 May 2019Our youngest associate Julie Petersen, who is also pursuing a PhD in criminal law at the University of Antwerp, won the annual APR prize with her dissertation 'Towards new verbal ...
read moreDo you want to know more about the draft of the new Criminal Code? Register now for the study day of May the 3rd: “Towards a new penal code”!
25 April 2019On May 3 2019, Die Keure organizes a bilingual study day on this subject. Patrick Waeterinckx will, among other things, make a critical analysis of the proposed legislative changes with ...
read moreAccording to the Court of Cassation, foreign income from offshores without economic realities always had to be reported, even before the entry into force of the Cayman tax
11 March 2019Prior: the judgment of the Ghent Court of Appeal In September 2018, the Court of Appeal of Ghent declared a person guilty of tax evasion. This person had admitted, as ...
read morePrecising jurisdiction in cassation regarding the limitation of the judgement of the laundered pecuniary benefits.
11 February 2019On February 2019 the Court of Cassation issued an interesting ruling. This ruling concerns the problem of illicit proceeds which a judge has to confiscate following a conviction for money ...
read moreRights of the bona fide third-owner versus common (criminal) interest : the Constitutional Court sets clear boundaries (again).
12 November 2018For a long time “loot”-aimed research and punishment is a priority in the fight against financial and economic crime. One counts on a dissuasive effect by punishing such crimes through ...
read moreScience and criminal law : a critical view at the annual meeting of the Dutch-Flemish Association of Criminal Law
18 October 2018In October 2018, the Dutch-Flemish Association of Criminal Law (Nederlands-Vlaamse Vereniging voor Strafrecht) had its yearly meeting. This year’s theme was forensic proof in criminal cases. After the pre-counsellors made ...
read moreCommercial flexibility or crime? The Brussels criminal court takes a stringent position
1 October 2018On May 9, 2018 the French speaking Brussels criminal court sentenced a lease company in luxury cars and its director for (a.o.) money laundering (the repressive laundering law (and most ...
read moreThe Constitutional Court confirms the existing conversion mechanism for legal persons
22 January 2018At the introduction of the Belgian Penal Code in 1867 the natural person was always considered as the offender. Thus, the penal system was built from that perspective. In 1999, ...
read moreRegister now for the free seminar on insuring the liability of board members and management committee members.
19 January 2018Is a liability insurance for board members and management committee members relevant? Baker Tilly Belgium, Tribus Law, Litiguard Advocaten, Waeterinckx Attorneys and Beluga Insurance Solutions kindly invite you to the free seminar ...
read moreThe European Court of Human Rights condemns the uncontrolled and secret exploitation of bank data of a german criminal attorney.
23 October 2017Mr Sommer is a German attorney specialized in criminal cases. In 2009 his client was convicted. The convicted person’s fiancée paid the fees through her account. Not much later the ...
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