David Dessers
Cresco AdvocatenPraised by clients for its ‘good industry knowledge’, the practice at Cresco Advocaten focuses on assisting tech companies in the tech and life science spaces. Members of the team ’are friendly, pleasant to work with, and knowledgeable on negotiation tactics and approaches’, including practice heads David Dessers and Olivier Van Raemdonck. In addition to being a founding partner of the firm, Dessers is adept at handling the IT aspects of corporate and M&A transactions, while Van Raemdonck’s practice centres on innovative technology ventures. Ward Verwaeren and Glenn L’hoëst are noted.
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Testimonials
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‘Olivier Van Raemdonck for his kindness and thoroughness.’
‘We work with Cresco Advocaten's lawyers from time to time for contract review or legal advice on EU law, and have always been very satisfied with the way they have dealt with our requests, both in terms of content and form, sometimes within very tight deadlines.’
‘We worked mainly with Ward Verwaeren and Emilie Praet. They both did an outstanding job, giving us very detailed legal advice or a legal review in a very short time.’
‘They take the time to understand your business and build out the strategy together with you. Next to that, they have a deep knowledge of the segment of SaaS works from a tech and IP perspective and can source out of the box solutions based on their vast experience.’
‘The Cresco team has the agility to reply to questions which is super fast and foremost their multidisciplinary approach is really making us worry free.’
‘Good industry knowledge, good network in case of specific questions, readily available if urgencies, good understanding of the customer's specifics.’
'They are friendly, pleasant to work with, and knowledgeable on negotiation tactics and approaches.’
Key clients
- Visualfabriq
- Niets Distillery
- Zerocopy
- Vlerick Business School
- Effex
- Otiv
- Spacewell
- Septentrio
- Arspectra
- Techwolf
- Zeopore
- Luzmo
- Bothrs
- Orsi
- Ufo Drive
- Belfius
- Pulsify
- Hex-Rays
- Timefold
- Match Group
- Rheavita
- Robovision
- Legalfly
- Techwolf
- Hyve
- Pilario
- Accountable
- Loctax
Work highlights
- Assisted TechWolf BV in its successful $42.75 million Series B funding round, and advised on many high-value technology contracts and appointed as preferred legal counsel for technology matters.
- Appointed as preferred law firm of many innovative scale-ups and corporates, such as Spacewell (part of the Nemetcheck Group), Belfius, Loctax, Stow, Movu, Luzmo, Visualfabriq, Septentrio and Timefold.
- Providing day-to-day legal support to the EMEA legal team of online dating multinational Match Group.
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Olivier Van Raemdonck
Cresco AdvocatenPractice head
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David Dessers, Olivier Van Raemdonck