Fraud prevention and corporate criminal law
Over the years, we have built up an extensive track record in the areas of:
Fraud prevention
- Fraud prevention: establishing a fraud policy, developing a whistle-blowing scheme, conducting a fraud assessment;
- Fraud audit: risk assessment and advice regarding criminal offences with regard to social and tax law;
- Compliance: conducting criminal due diligence investigations, building up a fraud prevention policy (with respect for the right to privacy), assistance, training and advice with regard to the prevention of money laundering;
- Fraud/Forensic investigation: supervising and conducting internal/external fraud investigations.
Corporate criminal law
- Legal support during the criminal investigation and criminal procedure: assistance during questioning, criminal record analysis, suggestions for further investigations, lifting of a criminal seizure, criminal and civil defence;
- Assistance for suspects and accused persons, but also for victims of fraud;
- Vast experience with (inter alia) criminal files regarding: fraud, abuse of confidence/corporate assets, falsification of documents, tax fraud and money laundering, social fraud, corruption, computer criminality, bank and insurance fraud, etc.
We assist victims or offenders, employers or employees, or entrepreneurs and business managers. In short, anyone connected in any way with fraud can count on our advice and expertise.
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Our team
Stijn De Meulenaer
Partner
Stijn De Meulenaer
Stijn De Meulenaar graduated in 1996 with distinction with a master’s degree law at the University of Ghent. After that, he also obtained a master’s degree in criminology at the University of Liège, where he was also an assistant for a while. After gaining experience in some big firms in Brussels, he started at Everest Lawyers in 2007 with some fellow partners. He is a lawyer in Ghent and Brussels and is also a director of the Everest office in Ghent.
Within his practice as a lawyer, Stijn has built up a wealth of experience in corporate criminal law and fraud prevention. Together with his team, he assists companies and business leaders with advice and in litigation cases.
Stijn De Meulenaar has written various articles and books on fraud and corporate criminal law. In addition, he is also a popular speaker at seminars, lectures in tax criminal law at the Bruges Business School (VIVES), and is an executive professor in fraud auditing. He is also connected to the Free University of Brussels as a scientific collaborator.
CVEmail:stijn.de.meulenaer@everest-law.be
Tel:+32 (0)9/334.94.70
Areas of expertise:Fraud prevention and corporate criminal law; Banking and finance law; Company law
Danique Van Mechelen
Fien Schreurs
Floor Dhondt
Jorne Geenens
Senior associate
Danique Van Mechelen
Danique Van Mechelen obtained a master’s degree in law from Ghent University (2019, cum laude). Before that, she had already worked for five years in a firm specialized in criminal (procedural) law and complex dispute resolution, first as a paralegal in combination with her law studies and later as a lawyer.
Danique joined the Everest office in Ghent in August 2022, where she is active in the (anti)fraud and corporate criminal law department.
In addition to a special interest in corporate criminal law, Danique also has broad experience in criminal (procedural) law and corporate law.
Email:danique.vanmechelen@everest-law.be
Tel:+32 (0)9 334 94 70
Area of expertise: Fraud prevention and corporate criminal law
Associate
Fien Schreurs
Fien Schreurs graduated in 2019 with a master’s degree in law at the Roman Catholic University of Leuven. She then completed a general LL.M. at the University of Ottawa in Canada.
Fien has been registered since 2020 as a lawyer at the Ghent bar and joined the Everest office in that same year.
She works in the anti-fraud and corporate criminal law department.
Fien also specialises in sports law.
Email:fien.schreurs@everest-law.be
Tel:+32 (0)9/334.94.70
Areas of expertise:Fraud prevention and corporate criminal law; Sports law; Corporate law and contracts
Associate
Floor Dhondt
Floor Dhondt graduated in 2021 with a master’s degree in law at the University of Ghent.
Since 2021, she has been a lawyer at the Ghent bar and she has joined the Everest office in Ghent where she works in the anti-fraud and corporate criminal law department. She has a special interest in tax law.
Email:floor.dhondt@everest-law.be
Tel:+32 (0)9/334.94.70
Areas of expertise:Fraud prevention and corporate criminal law; Company law; Tax law
Junior associate
Jorne Geenens
Jorne Geenens graduated cum laude with a Master of Laws from Ghent University in 2024. During his studies, he was selected to represent Ghent University in an international moot court competition before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.
Since September 2024, Jorne has been part of the (anti-)fraud and corporate criminal law department at the Everest office in Ghent. He also has a keen interest in corporate and commercial law.
Email:jorne.geenens@everest-law.be
Tel.:+32 (0)9 334 94 70
