Simont Braun

Banking & Digital Finance

Senior Financial law & FinTech lawyer with a strong focus on financial regulatory law, Philippe De Prez assists on a daily basis domestic and foreign credit and financial institutions, investment firms, payment service providers, e-money issuers and technical services providers. 

As a member of Simont Braun’s Digital Finance Team, he follows closely and works on all FinTech, InsurTech, RegTech and other disruptive initiatives such as mobile payments, virtual currencies, crowdfunding, peer to peer / alternative lending, third-party payment service providers, big data ventures, ICOs and blockchain applications. 

Philippe De Prez is a multilingual conference speaker and author of various finance and FinTech-related contributions. 

He is recognised as a Next Generation Lawyer by the Legal 500 in Banking, Finance and Capital Markets.

Philippe also has specific experience in corporate & commercial law, M&A, due diligence surveys, restructuring & liquidation of companies, real estate transactions, lease law and town planning.

Dutch, French, English

Law Degree (UGent) in 2006 Economic Law Degree (ULB) in 2007 Postgraduate in Real Estate Management (KUL) in 2013 Digital Leadership Programme (Vlerick Business School) in 2018 Admitted to the Brussels Bar since 2007