About
Impact lawyers was founded in February 2019 by five co-founders as the very first niche law firm in Belgium, focusing on tailor-made legal services to not-for-profit associations, social businesses and “impact entrepreneurs”. Impact lawyers is not a traditional law firm: our lawyers are not only excellent legal advisors but also trained in (litigation) support of large complex projects and transdisciplinary knowledge development. Co-creation, knowledge sharing and innovation are part of our DNA. Impact lawyers supports all sorts of clients from hospitals, schools and public entities to social impact investors, social economy companies and sector federations. They come in the most divers legal forms such as (international) associations, foundations, cooperatives and other companies, often with a special status (social enterprise) or label (BCorp). Our clients rarely work on a stand-alone basis but usually in groups and increasingly in hybrid structures. Our lawyers assist them in every possible way from start-up to dissolution and in all trajectories of cooperation such as networking, mergers, restructuring, etc. And if the occasion calls for it, we go to court. Impact lawyers can count on a large network of national and international partners. Our firm is, amongst others, a strategic partner of GAIL and participates to many types of multi-disciplinary networks, such as Be-impact (the Belgian network for and about social entrepreneurship) and B-Corporation Europe (a network promoting the development of certified B-Corporations in Belgium). Our impact lawyers frequently host and participate in Webinars, workshops and round table discussions with regard to association law, company governance, network organisations, etc. Impact lawyers handles matters in English, Dutch and French and has offices in Leuven and Brussels. ### Languages - Dutch - French - English - German ### Memberships - Brussels Bar - The Legal 500 - Leuven Bar - The Shift - GAIL - Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers
Office locations
Leuven
Leuven
Impact lawyers Mc-square Leuven Philipssite 5, Bus 1 3000 Leuven Leuven 3000 Belgium
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Benoit Spitaels
founding partner company and associations law (M&A, establishment, restructuring, transformation of companies, associations and foundations) hybrid structures governance projects contract drafting · Corporate / M&A
Bram Van Baelen
founding partner company law with a specific focus on cooperatives (incorporation, transformations, advice, ...) and hybrid entities (B Corp certification, social enterprises, ...) non-profit law (associations, foundations, ...) · Corporate / M&A
Coralie Mattelaer
founding partner expert in company and non/social profit law, with an emphasis on: participative accompaniment of multistakeholder projects such as governance projects, mergers and broader partnership projects in non and social profit organisations incl. hybrids; mediation processes and conflict management; transactional work, mainly with regard to mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, establishements, restructurings and transformations of non and social profit organisations incl. hybrids; advisory work in the aforementioned domains. · Corporate / M&A
Hanne Verhoeven
junior legal advisor advisory and transactional work in the field of company law and non/social profit law (partnerships, establishements, restructurings, liablity, employment law) · Corporate / M&A
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. · Not-for-Profit / Social Sector
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) · Corporate / M&A
Xanne Holvoet
founding partner transactional, advisory work and litigation with an emphasis on: company and non/social profit law; intellectual property; governance projects. · Corporate / M&A