Public and administrative law
Throughout the years, we have built up extensive experience and specialization in the field of public and administrative law in the following areas:
Government Contracts
- Assistance to companies and contracting authorities in the context of public contracts, concessions and PPPs
- Assisting contracting authorities in the drafting of contract documents, the analysis of requests to participate and bids, support in negotiations, the drafting of selection and award decisions, …
- Assisting companies in the award phase of a contract with the drafting of their requests to participate and bids, setting up temporary partnerships, contacts with contracting authorities, …
- Advising public authorities and companies in the execution of public contracts
- Representation before the Council of State and before the courts in the context of disputes relating to the award and execution of public contracts
Public and administrative law
- Public employees: advice and treatment of disputes for authorities and public employees in the broader sense (local, regional and federal, police, magistrates, bailiffs, notaries, …) concerning appointment and promotion, evaluation, disciplinary and order measures, mobility, salary, end of career
- Regulated sectors: assistance to companies in the context of monitoring their activities and their permits in the sectors of food, construction, medicine, surveillance, …
- Local authorities: support to municipalities, CPAS, service and contracting associations, autonomous municipal companies, with regard to their operation and organization, staff, administrative police, …
- Constitutional law: advising and handling of disputes for public authorities and private clients (companies, interest groups) before the Constitutional Court through appeals for suspension and or annulment or preliminary rulings
- Regulated professions: advising and handling disputes related to the status and professional practice of notaries, bailiffs, architects, real estate agents, insurance brokers, surveyors, accountants, …
- Other branches of administrative law such as administrative sanctions, subsidies, waste legislation, government liability, …
You can contact us as a public administration, company or individual.
Our team
Anthony Poppe practices at the Ghent and Brussels Bar and is partner at Everest lawyers. He practices public and administrative law in general with a particular focus on public contracts, health law, civil servants law and regulated professions. He assists his clients from the private and public sector in answering their legal questions in these matters, both in advisory work and in litigation before the courts, the Council of State and the Constitutional Court. As a speaker and trainer, he regularly takes part in study days on various questions in his specialist areas and also writes about subjects in his preferred fields. He is a lecturer for ESCALA (Syntra group; public procurement and disciplinary law for police and local authorities). Email:anthony.poppe@everest-law.be Tel:+32 (0)9/334.94.70 Areas of expertise:Public and administrative law; Health Law Ellen obtained her law degree with distinction from Ghent University in 2021. As part of the Erasmus+ program, she studied at the law faculty of the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice for five months during her Master’s studies. Subsequently, in 2022, Ellen obtained a Master of Laws in International and European Law from the Free University of Brussels with great distinction. Ellen started her career in 2022 as a lawyer at the Dutch-speaking Bar in Brussels. Since September 2024, she has been registered as a lawyer at the Bar in Ghent and joined Everest Law Ghent. Ellen is active in the public law department and developed a particular affinity for government contracts. Email:ellen.verschuere@everest-law.be Tel.:+32 (0)9 334 94 70 Expertise: Public and administrative law Elisabeth Robbroeckx obtained a degree in master of laws with distinction in 2018 from the University of Antwerp. She started her career in 2018 as a lawyer at the Dutch-speaking Bar in Brussels. In 2020, Elisabeth joined the federal government as a public procurement law expert. She then gained experience as a consultant in this field. Since October 2024, she has been registered at the Ghent Bar and joined Everest Law Ghent. She is a regular speaker at seminars on public procurement law and also writes on topics in her preferred fields. Elisabeth is active in the public law department and developed a special affinity with public contracts. Email:elisabeth.robbroeckx@everest-law.be Tel:+32 (0)9 334 94 70 Expertise:Public and administrative law
Anthony Poppe
Ellen Verschuere
Elisabeth Robbroeckx
Partner
Anthony Poppe
Junior associate
Ellen Verschuere
Associate
Elisabeth Robbroeckx
