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Alain-Laurent Verbeke
Alain-Laurent is a Partner in the Greenille Private Client team. Alain-Laurent specialises in estate planning, family property law (relational property law, inheritance law, wills and donations), family dynamics and governance. His work involves facilitating next gen and family wealth processes as well as negotiation, mediation and arbitration of family business, inheritance and divorce conflicts and disputes.
Alexander Baert
Alexander is a Director in the Tax Dispute Resolution Team. He advises national and international companies on all aspects of customs and global trade law.
Annick Visschers
Annick is head of the Tax Dispute Resolution team of lawyers at Deloitte Legal. She specialises in Belgian and international tax law and focuses on tax risk management, criminal law in tax matters, tax litigation and tax recovery.  She also acts as a lawyer in tax proceedings before the Court of Cassation and the Court of Justice.
Bart Verdickt
Bart is a Director in the Greenille Private Clients team at Deloitte Legal. He focusses on the wealth planning of the private client practice, with an in-depth cross-border knowledge of gift and estate taxes as well as private international law. He has advised several high net worth individuals on their national and international wealth planning, including in- and outbound advisory.
Benoit Feron
Benoît is Partner in Deloitte Legal's Corporate and M&A team of lawyers. His work focuses on M&A, corporate law and capital markets and includes financial regulatory and litigation files.
Carla Barreto
Head of Life Sciences & Health Care Industry area  
Caroline Costermans
Caroline Costermans
Caroline is a Partner in the Greenille Private Client team and focuses on private wealth structuring, in particular when international aspects come into play.
Christoph Michiels
Christoph is a Partner in the Corporate and M&A department. His work is focused on corporate and financial law, M&A, private equity/venture capital and capital market transactions, areas on which he has written a number of publications.
Danny Stas
Danny is head of the tax advisory practice. He is a tax lawyer specialised in VAT, in particular with respect to real estate and financial transactions, as well as eco taxes and contributions. As partner, Danny focuses on VAT consulting for Belgian clients in the private and public sectors and the broad corporate market at national and international level. In the real estate industry, Danny focuses on VAT consulting for clients in the private (e.g. real estate developers, REITs, hospitals, senior housing, etc.) and public sectors and the broad corporate market at national and international level. Besides the specific VAT topics (e.g. reduced VAT rates, VAT exemptions), he has also good knowledge of alternative financing of real estate and transfer duties.
David Roelens
David Roelens is head of the Corporate and M&A and Finance practice. David’s practice focuses on cross-border and domestic M&A and private equity transactions, real estate transactions, debt and equity capital markets and corporate law. He also advises clients in relation to general commercial law, insolvency and restructuring issues.
Dominique Vanherck
Dominique is a member of Deloitte Legal's Public law, regulatory & permits team. She is a sustainability expert with a particular focus on the energy sector. She advises clients on all climate and energy law related matters including subsidies, permits, concessions and contracts. Furthermore, she has extensive experience with large infrastructure projects, and in that respect advises public and private sector clients on construction law, PPP, DBFM(O) contracts, EPC contracts and public procurement. As an affiliate researcher at the KU Leuven’s Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, she writes several scientific contributions per year and regularly speaks at energy law conferences. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Environmental and Energy Law Journal.
Emmanuel Leroux
Emmanuel is a Senior Director in the Corporate and M&A department. He focuses on general corporate law advisory, family businesses, capital markets transactions, M&A, and corporate litigation. He also has a particular expertise in corporate governance.
Eric von Frenckell
Eric is a Partner in the tax advisory team. He focuses on international tax and is among others active in the pharmaceutical industry. He also regularly advises large groups based in the United States or France. Eric assists multinational groups through Business Model Optimisations and International Strategic Tax Reviews.
Filip Smet
Filip is a Director in the Tax Dispute Resolution team within Deloitte Legal, focusing on direct tax risk management and litigation. Filip assists taxpayers during audits, negotiations and litigation with the tax administration concerning income taxes and private wealth structuring. Furthermore he has a special focus on the G&PS sector, acting regularly on all questions concerning the specific tax regime for the sector.
Frank Vanbiervliet
Frank is a Director in the Tax Dispute Resolution team. He specialises in multi-jurisdictional tax planning and tax litigation. He also provides tax advisory services relating to mergers & acquisitions, VAT and other indirect and local taxes, transfer pricing, pensions and benefits, international and local corporate restructuring for holding and real estate companies.
Frederik Swennen
Frederik is member of the Greenille Private Client team at Deloitte Legal. He specialises in national and international family law, private international law and art law. Frederik’s work involves family governance and family proceedings, as well as planning of private art collections, in collaboration with the public sector.
Georgiana Singurel
Georgiana Singurel
Georgiana is the Coordinating Partner of Reff & Associates' M&A practice. With over 25 years of experience as an attorney at law and part of Deloitte team since 2001, Georgiana is hallmark of the Romanian M&A market, highly ranked across international legal directories and acts as trusted advisor to key clients in Reff & Associates' portfolio. Georgiana is responsible for oversight and development of legal services and offers in Romania, acting as Country Leader for Deloitte's Legal M&A practice. Georgiana is specialized in complex M&A projects, joint ventures, in implementation of group reorganizations processes and of various joint ventures between both public and private partners. She coordinates M&A deals on a constant basis various projects on buy-side or sell-side, in various industries and fields such as manufacturing, energy, retail and consumer business, from the initial structuring phase, going into the due diligence and then preparation, negotiation and execution of contractual documentation. She advices a large variety of international clients on all legal matters pertaining to their business in Romania, including corporate transactions, acquisitions and divestments. In 2023, Georgiana acted as trainer and speaker in the training sessions organised by Deloitte and the EBRD on aspects pertaining to corporate governance and gender diversity for women leaders seeking to accede to top management and leadership positions in their organisations.
Glenn Hansen
Glenn heads the dispute resolution and insolvency & restructuring division of Deloitte Legal’s Commercial law team. Glenn joined Deloitte Legal in 2009. He has more than 12 years of experience in assisting in negotiations, advising and representing clients in diverse a wide range of commercial and corporate litigation and arbitration proceedings. He is also experienced in fraud and white-collar crime as well as general contract and tort law. In this capacity, he acts as a trusted business advisor to a wide-variety of Belgian and international clients, going from start-ups, over scale-ups, SME’s to large Belgian and multinational companies corporations, operating in various sectors. Furthermore, Glenn focusses on insolvency and restructuring matters, for which he is recommended in the Leaders League. Glenn has successfully concluded the training to act as insolvency practitioner. He is a member of the Belgian Turnaround Association and has several publications to his name.
Hana Gawlasová
Hana Gawlasová
Hana Gawlasová is a partner and head of the digital (formerly TMT) law practice group at Deloitte Legal in Prague. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of information technology and telecommunications law. She has significant experience with regulatory and compliance advisory work in the TMT sector (telecommunications, media, technology), as well as transactional work. She advised a British telecommunications operator on the acquisition of a Czech and Romanian mobile operator, a consortium of investors on the financing of a Czech infrastructure operator and a Slovak investment group on the launch of a unique telecommunications operator providing fixed and mobile services within one technology and one network. Before working at Deloitte Legal, she led a regional TMT team at a British law firm, which focused on coordinated advice to foreign and Czech investors in the TMT sector in the CEE region. Before working at Deloitte Legal, she founded a practice called People & Technology, which primarily deals with legal advice in areas where a human element (humanware) is decisive, such as advice in the field of copyright, privacy, personal data protection, compliance programmes for employees and internal investigations involving employees, suppliers and customers.
Helene Casman
Hélène is a member of the Greenille Private Client team within Deloitte Legal - Lawyers. She specialises in family property law, marriage contracts, gifts, wills and inheritance law.
Jan Procházka
Jan Procházka
Jan Procházka is a Partner and head of the Banking & Finance department and Employment department at Deloitte Legal. In Banking & Finance he focuses on providing legal advice to banks, insurance companies and other financial market entities on regulatory requirements, including the regulatory aspects of transformations, restructurings and acquisitions. Recently, Jan was leading projects that included: acquiring a qualifying stake in an insurance company and the merger of insurance companies (including representation before the Czech National Bank, as the regulator); mergers of banks; revision of the complete set of documentation for a leasing company; implementation of the Insurance Distribution Directive for an independent insurance intermediary; design of innovative insurance products covering IoT; and review of regulatory issues and set-up of a bitcoin mining pool. In the area of Employment and benefits Jan focuses on both the standard employment-law agenda and the area of flexibility, innovative benefits and cross-border assignment of employees. Recently, Jan has led projects consisting in the recruitment of employees by a foreign bank entering the Czech market, including resolving issues of applicable law, taxation and setting up the day-to-day HR operation (e.g., preparing internal regulations and securing the necessary applications and registrations); or a project consisting of preparation of a new design of relations with members of the statutory body, including the preparation of contracts covering the transition from employment relationships and the setting up of internal approval and liability processes for a major developer. Jan also manages the knowledge management agenda at the law firm. Under his leadership, the actively built culture of knowledge sharing contributes to the stable, accessible and sustainable development of the team as a whole and its individual members. The basis is case law and legislative monitoring and analysis, which is directly reflected in the quality of legal advice. The client work also benefits from access to other Czech and foreign information sources and a sophisticated training system. Jan does not forget about innovation and technology in knowledge management either. He seeks and explores the possibilities of their application and promotes a positive attitude of the team towards them.
Jaroslava Kračúnová
Jaroslava Kračúnová
Jaroslava Kračúnová is a Partner and head of the Business Integrity team at Deloitte Legal in Prague. She has more than 15 years of experience in corporate law with focus corporate governance, management liability, white collar crime, corporate criminal liability, criminal law compliance and compliance management systems, anti-bribery, anti-fraud, and anti-corruption prevention, whistleblowing and data privacy.   As part of her Business Integrity practice, Jaroslava leads teams during forensic investigations in major Czech and European companies. She has advised clients on subsequent legal steps to be taken in disputes and criminal investigations. She further leveraged the experience gained in investigations and used the identified gaps in processes during investigation projects to build efficient compliance management systems for clients.    In majority of data privacy compliance matters she focused on complex GDPR implementation projects and related privacy matters. She was also a member of the Working Group on the Preparation of the Adaptation Act to the GDPR and she of the Working Group on the Implementation of the NIS 1 Directive into Czech legislation.   
Jasmijn Verraes
Jasmijn is a Director in the Commercial team of lawyers at Deloitte Legal. She specialises in general commercial law, commercial litigation and has developed a special focus on contract law.
Joaquim Heirman
Joaquim is a Director at Deloitte Legal, specialising in all VAT matters. He has over 10 years of experience in advisory services including guiding companies through administrative and court procedures.
Johan Speecke
Johan is a partner in the Tax Dispute Resolution team and is a specialist in (criminal) tax litigation, advising companies and individuals, not only during the administrative process of the litigation (advice on tax challenges to final assessments, negotiations with both local and central tax administration, individual rulings, claims against assessments, notices, etc...) but also before tax courts at Belgian (Court of first instance, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court) and European level.
Jurgen Egger
Jurgen Egger
Jürgen heads the Commercial and Business Criminal law practices. He also leads the commercial law service line within the global Legal network. Jürgen has extensive experience in advising Belgian and foreign companies in commercial and criminal law matters. His focus is on contract law, distribution law, market practices, pre-insolvency and insolvency, tort law and white collar crime. Jürgen advises and represents clients before both civil and criminal courts, and he is well-acquainted with arbitration proceedings.
Kathleen De hornois
Kathleen became Managing Partner of Deloitte Legal - Lawyers on 1 October 2021.  She is also head of the Public, regulatory and permits team and a member of the Real estate practice. With a background both as an attorney and a company lawyer, Kathleen has extensive experience in administrative law, public procurement, public-private partnerships, environment law, urban planning and real estate in general.  From 2018 to 2019, Kathleen was the firm’s Eminence partner.
Kristof Maresceau
Kristof is a Director mainly specialising in (cross-border) corporate law. He advises both individual persons as well as companies on various aspects of corporate and commercial law. He mainly focuses on advising clients with regard to national and international corporate transactions, such as mid market acquisitions and divestitures (M&A), the setting up of joint ventures, advice on corporate governance and general corporate law issues.
Lara Trawinski
Lara is a Director in Deloitte Legal's Corporate and M&A team of lawyers.
Luc De Broe
Luc is Of Counsel in the Tax Dispute Resolution and Tax Advisory teams of lawyers within Deloitte Legal. He is a leading expert in Belgian and international tax.
Luca Failla
Luca Failla
Luca Failla is the Founding and Managing Partner of Failla&Partners. His practice focuses on providing assistance to national and international businesses in all areas of Italian employment and labor law – including providing counsel on Italian employment litigation, executive contract negotiations, directors and officer’s liability, competition protection, personnel reduction, corporate reorganizations, outsourcing, trade union negotiations, privacy, employment contracts, dismissals, pension schemes … and more recently workforce management when businesses are faced with unforeseen periods of distress – such as will the recent pandemic and threat of an energy crisis. Of note, over the past 15 years Luca successfully managed many of the most sensitive and complicated employment and labor matters in favor of Italian and Multinational companies. A number of these set new legal precedents and were also extensively covered in the national press. Luca is regularly recognized - at both the national and international levels - for his Italian Employment Law practice.  Some of his most recent accolades include: Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year  | TopLegal Awards 2022 Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year   |  LegalCommunity Labour Awards 2022 Italian Employment Law – Hall of Fame  |  Legal 500 EMEA 2022 Italian Employment Law – Thought Leaders  |  Who’s Who Legal 2022 Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year  |   LegalCommunity Labour Awards 2021 Italian Employment Law  |  Milano Finanza Legal Awards 2020 Italian Labor Litigation Lawyer of the Year  |  TopLegal Awards 2019 Italian Labor Professional of the Year - Restructuring  |  LegalCommunity Labor Awards 2019
Ludvík Juřička
Ludvík Juřička
Ludvík Juřička specialises in mergers and acquisitions, real estate and construction law, corporate law with a focus on corporate management and advising family businesses on the protection, preservation and management of assets using mainly family foundations and trusts. In the M&A area, he has participated in a number of transactions (both on the sell and the buy side) mainly in the sectors of iron and steel industry, construction, engineering, chemical industry, but also insurance, spa and private equity. In real estate and construction law, he provides comprehensive legal advisory, including, in particular, due diligence as part of real estate acquisitions, transaction and supplier contractual documentation, advice on the selection of suppliers and obtaining relevant public permits. Ludvík has extensive experience in creating family holding structures using endowment and trust funds as a tool for preserving family assets for future generations, including setting the rules for the management of these funds. Prior to joining Deloitte Legal, he worked for 12 years as a managing associate of a law firm cooperating with leading foreign audit firms and for 10 years as a partner at Havel & Partners where he was co-responsible for the management of branches in Brno and Ostrava.
Marc Van tieghem
Marc Van tieghem
Marc is a Partner in the Corporate and Finance department. He has a broad practice, advising clients on domestic and cross-border M&A and real estate transactions, corporate reorganisations and corporate disputes. In addition to his wide experience in a variety of industries and sectors, Marc’s practice has a particular focus on the public sector, including public enterprise and public private partnerships.
Maresceau Maresceau
Kristof is a lawyer mainly specialising in (cross-border) corporate law. He advises both individual persons as well as companies on various aspects of corporate and commercial law. He mainly focuses on advising clients with regard to national and international corporate transactions, such as mid market acquisitions and divestitures (M&A), the setting up of joint ventures, advice on corporate governance and general corporate law issues. In addition to his work as director within Deloitte Legal - Lawyers, Kristof is also a professor of corporate law at the University of Ghent. He regularly publishes articles on (Belgian and European) corporate and insolvency law for which he has been awarded with the triennial international Pierre Coppens prize for law (2014-2017) and the TPR-prize (Tijdschrift voor Privaatrecht) (2015). Kristof Maresceau acted as an expert appointed by the Belgian Minister of Justice and was actively involved in the drafting of the new Belgian Companies Code.
Martin Bohuslav
Martin Bohuslav
Martin Bohuslav is a Managing Partner at Deloitte Legal. He provides clients with services in the areas of ICT security, software contracts, personal data protection of new technologies and intellectual property rights where he focuses on data management in digital environment. He also focuses on managing complex transactions, projects and restructurings, performance of legal due diligence reviews concerning ownership titles to real estate and lease relationships to real estate, residential and non-residential premises.  Martin gained experience through participation in several important projects aimed, among other things, at setting contractual relations in the field of cloud services, e-commerce and specific personal data protection issues. Has long-term experience in leading cross-functional team of specialist in complex GDPR implementation projects. At the same time, in the field of personal data protection, Martin applies his expertise in the field of technology and focuses on technological and innovative solutions that save clients time and money; an example includes the GDPR Detective application which at the time of its implementation helped clients analyse their situation and implement necessary changes. He also provides clients with services including negotiation and preparation of contractual and other documentation related to the acquisition of business companies as well as legal consultancy in business restructuring.   His clients include domestic as well as foreign construction companies, real estate investors and developers, technology companies, retail chains, producers and distributors in numerous industries, as well as local administrations and other public entities.  
Mathieu Ex
Mathieu Ex
Mathieu has been a tax partner in the Greenille Private Client team since 2011 and has been head of the team since 2017.
Matthias Vierstraete
Matthias is a member of the Commercial team and co-ordinates the IP/ICT services. He specialises in IP and ICT law. He assists clients in relation to trademarks, patents, copyrights, licensing, data protection, software development, e-commerce, domain name disputes and media law, amongst others.
Maximillien van de Werve
Maximilien is head partner of the Real estate practice. His practice covers cross-border and Belgian and/or Luxembourg real estate acquisitions, disposals, sale and leasebacks, development and construction projects, joint ventures, reorganisations and litigations.
Nancy Muyshondt
Nancy is a Director in Deloitte Legal's Tax Advisory team of lawyers. She focusses on VAT consulting and VAT litigation cases, with a special emphasis on VAT and indirect tax aspects of real estate transactions and on VAT consulting for the public and non profit sector. 
Patrizia Macaluso
Patrizia is a Director in Conflict Handling within the Greenille Private Client team. She has a vast experience in both litigation and serving private clients.
Petr Suchý
Petr Suchý
Petr Suchý is a Partner at Deloitte Legal in Prague. He is head of the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Deloitte Legal and participates in the leadership of the Restructuring & Insolvency team. He started his professional career in 1997 and has been with Deloitte since 2003. He specialises in corporate law, especially in mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings. He lectures on Mergers & Acquisitions at the faculties of law at Charles University in Prague and Masaryk University in Brno. Within the Deloitte Legal global network of law firms, Petr is a member of the Deloitte Legal EMEA Corporate / M&A Executive Committee and leader of the Deloitte Legal Central Europe M&A Expert Group.
Rik Galle
Rik is a Director in the Corporate and M&A department. He specialises in corporate law, corporate reorganisation, M&A and capital markets. Rik currently heads a Chinese desk within the firm.
Show Chen
Show Chen
Head of District Legal Service in Koahsiung office; Senior Attorney
Stijn Demeestere
Stijn Demeestere heads the firm’s Employment, pensions and benefits team.
Tim Wustenberghs
Tim is partner in the Tax advisory team. His main focus is on corporate international tax, although he is also keen on handling real estate matters and registration duties as well. The tax advisory team headed by Tim has extensive expertise as a general tax advisor for numerous companies thereby assisting them with their (inbound) investments, reorganisations, holding activities and financing structures. They have also considerable experience in handling ruling requests with the Belgian tax administration.
Wim Naudts
Wim Naudts has a clear focus on administrative and regulatory law and is trusted advisor to a wide diversity of public bodies. Wim holds master degrees in Public Administration, European Studies and Law. He started his career in 2005 as a university researcher. In 2009 Wim was admitted to the bar and began to work as a lawyer for an Antwerp boutique law office, specialized in administrative and transport law. Wim worked i.a. on a large scale assignment for the EC’s DG MOVE on cargo handling in ports. In 2013 he joined the department public and regulatory law of Deloitte Legal. From 2012 until 2014 he was also a teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven. Wim has solid knowledge of restructuring and public procurement, combining his experience as a lawyer with his insights as master in Public Administration and master in European Studies.
Yannick Van den broeke
Yannick Van den broeke is a Director in Deloitte Legal - Lawyers’ Corporate and M&A practice, also leading Deloitte’s Sports Sector in Belgium. He is an experienced lawyer with a demonstrated history of undertaking M&A and corporate structuring work for Belgian and international clients, with a specific focus on privately owned businesses. His transactional work involves advising clients during the complete process of acquiring or selling businesses (i.e. buy- and sellside due diligence, negotiating with counterparties and drawing up transaction documents). In his corporate structuring practice, Yannick supports clients with the (solvent) reorganisation of their businesses' legal structure through mergers, demergers, contributions, etc. He also advises clients on a wide range of company law matters, such as corporate governance and director's liability. Yannick is considered a trusted advisor to clients in various industries, notwithstanding his specific focus on Private clients and Technology, Media and Telecommunications, which includes Sports business), having strong project management skills and an eye for detail. Yannick regularly lectures and publishes on corporate law related matters.

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