ALTIUS‘s multi-disciplinary team assists non-profit organisations across a broad spectrum of legal issues, covering corporate, intellectual property and regulatory matters, as well as antitrust, employment and data protection law. Jérôme Vermeylen heads the practice and advises numerous clients in the sector on corporate matters such as their establishment, status and functioning. Carmen Verdonck represents national and international non-profit associations in all aspects of Belgian and EU competition law.
Testimonials
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‘I really like the way ALTIUS is able to provide a quick and rigourous response by a combination of Senior and less senior professionals. This makes the service reliable and still affordable for a non-for-profit like ours with limited resources. I also appreciate that the entire team is very human-centred. You don't feel like a number or a mere client, but you get the impression they care for your organization, which is extremely rare in my view.’
‘I have a great experience working with Oliver Vrins and Jerome Vermeylen. Oliver Vrins is particularly excellent at having a great overview of our organization's background, a great sense of what can be "internal politics" and ability to convey rigourous expert advice in a way that is firm and yet understanding on the different sensibilities. Same can be said about Jerome Vermeylen although in a different area of work. Both are extremely good professionals.'
‘The team is very responsive. I worked with partners across their nonprofit and GDPR teams and they were very helpful and thorough. They responded much more quickly than other firms I worked with and were proactive in communicating timelines and expectations.’
‘They were extremely thorough, available to answer all questions, and very knowledgeable. We had some very nuanced questions on processes new to us and they were able to respond thoroughly and completely on all of them.’
Key clients
- Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos
- Association of European Coeliac Societies (AOECS)
- Attorney General of the Republic of Pakistan
- Belgian Association for Marketing
- Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Belgian Tennis Association
- Belgian Volleyball Association
- Bill and Melinda-Gates Foundation
- Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC)
- CEER
- Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)
- Centre Cultuel Ismailien
- Comité Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne (CIVC)
- Croplife Europe
- European Franchise Federation
- Euroseeds
- Eurosmart
- Fedustria
- FITA
- Fost Plus
- French Institut National de l’Origine et de la Qualité (INAO)
- Institute of International Education
- New Direction
- oriGIn
- PIANC
- Teach for All
- The University of Kent
- United States Government (USG)
- Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF)
- Yakult Honsha Research Centre for Microbiology
Work highlights
- Advising Boerenbond in relation to proceedings initiated by several environmental organisations against the Flemish Government to obtain stricter limitations on the use of pesticides in agriculture.
- Assisting US not-for-profit organisation Teach for All and its Belgian international not-for-profit association in relation to the setting up of its grant programme.
- Advised the Association of European Coeliac Societies (AOECS) regarding various corporate and governance matters and IP matters related to AOECS’s ‘GLUTEN FREE’ figurative trade mark.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jérôme Vermeylen, Carmen Verdonck, Gerrit Vandendriessche, Olivier Vrins