Specialisations
- Private banking law
- Privileges and mortgages
- Insolvency law
- Company law
Career
- Partner at Essenzia (since 19 February 2007)
- Coens-de Cooman-Peeters-Van den Cloot (2003-2006)
- DeBacker Advocaten (2001-2003)
- Mr Guy Vanhoucke (1998-2001)
- Mr Christian Stoop (1991-1998)
Education
- European mediation training for practitioners of Justice (2018) EMTPJ AIA (Association for International Arbitration)
- In-depth company law training (2002) EHSAL
- Training cycle receivers (2001-2002)
- Conflict mediation in other than family businesses (2001)
- Business economics (1997-1998 – magna cum laude) IPO – currently UAMS
- Special degree Maritime sciences (1990 – cum laude, UFSIA
- LL.M (1989), KU Leuven
Biography
Belgian, °18 March 1966
Member of the Antwerp Bar since 1990
Member of the Dutch-speaking Brussels Bar since 2014
Deputy justice at the Court of Appeal in Antwerp
Member of the High Council of Justice since May 2017
Accredited mediator in civil and commercial matters
Curator at the Business Court in Antwerp and at the Dutch-speaking Business Court in Brussels
Languages
Mother tongue: Dutch
Fluent in: French and English
Understanding: German
Passions
Music, literature and city trips