Lawyers in Belgium

Marco Schoups

Lawyer

Scale

Marco de Morpurgo

DLA Piper

Margaret Frey

Winston Taylor

Margo Simoens

Margo joined Quinz in 2024 as an associate in our Corporate & Finance team. She has a keen interest in private and public mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, and equity capital markets transactions. Prior to joining Quinz, she was an associate at Stibbe, where she also worked in the corporate and finance department. She is a member of the Brussels bar.

Quinz

Margot De Smet

Quinz

Margot Vandebeek

Counsel

Liedekerke

Maria Fahland

Senior Advisor

YS Advisors Belgium BV

Maria Kenny

Winston Taylor

Marie Brasseur

Partner

ALTIUS

Marie Evrard

Marie is a partner in the corporate team in Fieldfisher's Brussels office.

Fieldfisher

Marie Lamensch

Counsel

Arteo

Marie Van Luchene

Associate

V V G B Advocaten-Avocats

Marijn De Ruysscher

Marijn De Ruysscher is a member of Lydian's Commercial and Dispute Resolution practices and of our Insurance & Reinsurance industry department. Marijn has a broad experience in commercial dispute resolution via litigation and arbitration in different areas such as liability law, commercial contracts and distribution law. Marijn has a special experience in complex questions relating to prescription law. Marijn is a co-author of a commentary on the Belgian Arbitration Act, which was published in 2019 and updated in 2024. He is also regularly appointed as arbitrator. Marijn was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2008 and is amongst others a member of CEPANI and the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA). He is for the period 2023-2025 Board Member (Treasurer) of the ICAL Alumni Association (Stockholm).

Lydian

Marika Harjula

Counsel

White & Case LLP

Marilou van der Feltz

Lawyer

AKD

Marine Callebaut

Marine Callebaut is a member of our Restructuring and Insolvency practice.

Strelia

Mario Deketelaere

Mario Deketelaere is an of counsel in the Environment Practice Group in the Antwerp office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2002. He is experienced in administrative and public law. Mario is also a visiting professor at KU Leuven and a lecturer at Karel de Grote Hogeschool (Antwerp). Mario focuses on the regional, federal and European "environmental law" (Omgevingsrecht/Droit de l'Environnement), i.e. all law matters relating to the planning and protection of the human living environment, including the strengthening relations between environmental law, urban planning law, nature conservation and environmental impact assessment. In this field he is recognized as one of the most recommended and leading Belgian practitioners (International Who's Who of Environment Lawyers). He has extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of soil clean-up and (hazardous) waste management, environmental liability issues, environmental and building permit procedures, product safety, and environmental taxes. He advises Belgian and foreign multinational companies from different industrial sectors (chemical, metal industry, raw materials, waste treatment, energy, construction, food, ICT) on authorisation procedures and regulatory compliance, and assists clients with litigation relating to those areas of law (i.e. in civil, criminal and administrative disputes and procedures) before the national courts, the Council of State, the Constitutional Court and the EU Court of Justice.

Baker McKenzie BV/SRL

Marion Lapage

Marion is a corporate lawyer specializing in the life sciences sector, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical, medical devices, and consumer healthcare industries. She advises clients on strategic transactions and complex regulatory matters, with an emphasis on market access and supply chain challenges. Marion has deep expertise in supply chain-related transactions, including supply agreements, logistics services, and distribution set-ups, and regularly advises on the regulatory aspects of these operations. Her practice also includes providing strategic counsel on licensing (in- and out-), acquisitions, and divestments of life sciences products. She has extensive experience managing transactions throughout the entire product life cycle, from R&D outsourcing and technical operations to commercial supply arrangements and distribution networks.

Quinz

Marjolein De Backer

Associate

Dechert LLP

Mark Powell

Partner

White & Case LLP

Mark Rizik

Winston Taylor

Markus Wellinger

Partner Markus Wellinger focuses on competition and regulatory issues. Markus represents clients before the EU and national courts (both in Belgium and other countries), the European Commission and several Member States’ national competition authorities. He also assists clients with commercial arbitration under the AAA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules, in various complex commercial disputes. Markus’ experience includes assisting clients in merger control cases (securing merger antitrust clearance from more than 30 competition authorities within and outside the EU), compliance programmes and cartel investigations, strategic alliances and other commercial arrangements (such as distribution, R&D and technology licensing), abuses of dominance and EU State aid rules. Markus also regularly provides clients with advice on EU regulatory issues including technical, health and environmental regulations and standards, consumer protection and safety. He has filed a large number of successful internal market complaints with the European Commission which led to Member States’ changing national regulations.

Van Bael & Bellis

Marleen Denef

founding partner strategic advisor and change-architect for all types of collaborations, change projects (mergers, splits, organizational networks, impact scaling…) and hybrid business models (profit & purpose) involving (international) associations, foundations, social enterprises, cooperatives,… as well as governance projects based on social governance standards and alignment between SDG’s and IDG’s including transformation and transition-guidance.

Impact lawyers

Marlies Van de Poel

lawyer advisory and transactional work in the field of company law and non/social profit law (partnerships, establishements, restructurings, liablity, employment law) litigation (company & associations law)

Impact lawyers