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

Partner

Stijn De Meulenaer

Partner

Mathieu Baert

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.

CV

Partner

Mathieu Baert

Mathieu Baert graduated with distinction in 2015 with a master’s degree in law at the University of Ghent. Prior to his law degree, he graduated with a master’s degree in criminology in 2012. After that, in 2017, he obtained a master’s degree in business economics with studies at the University of Latvia and the University of Ghent. He started working at Everest in 2015.

 

Apart from his vast experience in corporate criminal law and corporate law and criminal law more generally within the anti-fraud and corporate criminal law department, Mathieu also takes the lead of the sport law department within Everest.

 

Mathieu was appointed as academic consultant in crime and sport at the University of Ghent on 1 June 2020. Furthermore, he is also working on various publications in matters of sports law and he is also a disciplinary judge within the Disciplinary Committee of the Judo Federation of Flanders.

Associate

Danique Van Mechelen

Associate

Fien Schreurs

Junior associate

Floor Dhondt

Junior associate

Lore Vanden Berghe

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.

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.

Junior 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.

 

Junior associate

Lore Vanden Berghe

Lore Vanden Berghe obtained her master’s degree in law cum laude at Ghent University in 2022.

Since then, she has been registered as a lawyer at the bar in Ghent and joined Everest in Ghent.

Lore is active in the department of (anti)fraud and corporate criminal law but mainly focuses on sports law.

Contact us

Are you interested in our services regarding fraud prevention and corporate criminal law? If so, contact our specialists without obligation via our contact form or telephone us on 09/280.20.94.