{"id":2156,"date":"2025-11-25T10:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waeterinckxvanherpe.law\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2025-11-25T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:22:12","slug":"waeterinckx-van-herpe-lawyers-business-criminal-law-for-sustainable-strong-legal-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waeterinckxvanherpe.law\/en\/waeterinckx-van-herpe-lawyers-business-criminal-law-for-sustainable-strong-legal-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Waeterinckx Van Herpe Lawyers Business Criminal Law: for sustainable, strong legal services."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our firm evolves with the future. To support our clients with even more efficiency, we are taking a new step: <strong>Waeterinckx Van Herpe Lawyers Business Criminal Law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stronger together:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ruben Van Herpe<\/strong> \u2013 a strong value in our team since 2014 \u00a0and appointed Associate Partner in 2024 \u2013 has now become co-partner. <strong>Patrick Waeterinckx<\/strong> and Ruben Van Herpe will jointly lead the firm and inspire our team of experts.<br \/>\nPatrick has extensive practical, academic, and multidisciplinary expertise regarding the criminal liability of legal entities and their executives.<br \/>\nRuben, as a trainee and associate, acquired important aspects of this broad expertise and has himself grown into an experienced specialist with a particular competence in complex money laundering cases and fiscal criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New expertise:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Helena Kuijl<\/strong> \u2013 a lawyer since 2014 at several leading law firms \u2013 strengthens our team. Her in-depth knowledge of criminal (procedural) law and her international experience at the United Nations (New York) and the International Criminal Court (The Hague) are an added asset and expansion of our expertise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deepening of knowledge:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Joost Huysmans<\/strong>, part of our firm since 2020, becomes of counsel. This allows him to better utilize his particular expertise in Belgian criminal procedure, EU criminal (procedural) law, and cassation procedures in criminal cases, and to provide advice on complex procedural issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your guarantee : <\/strong><br \/>\nYou can continue to count on sustainable, high-quality legal assistance and advice in all aspects of business criminal law \u2013 from prevention to defense.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/waeterinckxvanherpe.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WV-33-1-scaled-e1763719924573.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Your concern is our priority.&#8212;&#8211;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company details:<\/strong><br \/>\nWaeterinckx Van Herpe Advocaten BV<br \/>\nAmerikalei 160, 2000 Antwerp<br \/>\nVAT BE 1029.955.304<br \/>\nTel. +32 3 331 03 20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waeterinckxvanherpe.law\/\">www.waeterinckxvanherpe.law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our email addresses and our office address in Ghent remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our firm evolves with the future. 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