You'll never
alone
is a law firm with 35 Lawyers who assist individuals and professionals in all areas of law.
The Law Firm WALK
Based in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels, WALK brings together a team of lawyers organised into departments in order to offer clear, rigorous and consistent support in all areas of law.
Whether you are an individual or a company, we approach each case in all its dimensions, mobilising, where necessary, a cross-disciplinary approach when the case involves several areas of law.
Availability, responsiveness and direct communication guide the way we work. WALK also relies on new technologies and digital tools developed to facilitate case tracking, streamline exchanges and increase efficiency. Resolutely solution-oriented, the firm cultivates a relationship of trust based on listening, friendliness and high standards.
WALK is your partner law firm : You’ll Never Walk Alone !
Nos départements
pour particuliers et entreprises
Companies & Associations
For businesses
Our team advises and assists you in all areas of company and association law. We support you from the moment your company is formed and throughout its entire life.
Read more for businesses*departement_enbref
In the event of a dispute with a partner, we defend your interests either in court proceedings or in arbitration, mediation or conciliation.
*departement_casconcrets
- Amendment/compliance of articles of association (?)
- Drafting of shareholder agreements
- Capital increases
- Partial or total transfer of shares
- Acquisition of companies
- Restructuring of corporate groups (mergers, demergers, etc.)
- Conflict/deadlock between shareholders
- Etc.
*departement_avocats
Commercial/ Business
For businesses
Our team advises and assists you on a daily basis in managing the legal aspects of your relationships with your customers, suppliers, partners and competitors in various sectors of the economy. In particular, we support you in the negotiation, drafting and termination of commercial contracts.
Read more for businesses*departement_enbref
Our lawyers defend your interests in disputes with your partners, customers, competitors or suppliers, using alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation, arbitration or conciliation where appropriate.
*departement_casconcrets
- Renting contracts
- Sales contracts
- Transport contracts
- Subcontracting contracts
- Commercial distribution contracts (sales concessions, commercial agency, franchise)
- Etc.
*departement_avocats
Debt Collection
For businesses
We have teams specialised in the amicable and judicial recovery of your unpaid invoices, whether your customers are businesses or individuals.
Read more for businesses*departement_enbref
Our office has the human resources and a specific program enabling us to manage mass litigation involving up to several thousand cases per year, allowing you to track your cases online.
*departement_avocats
Banking
For businesses
To meet the needs of our clients best, our team combines theoretical knowledge with extensive practical experience, covering not only banking law but also security law, seizures and enforcement procedures in the context of loans and guarantees of all types, whether granted to businesses or individuals
Read more for businesses*departement_casconcrets
- security law,
- seizures and enforcement procedures in the context of loans,
- guarantees of all types, whether these facilities are granted to businesses or individuals.
*departement_avocats
Liability & Insurance
For businesses
The department deals with numerous issues arising from civil liability and insurance law at the corporate level, both in terms of establishing liability and assessing the resulting damage.
Read more for businessesFor individuals
The department deals with the many issues that civil liability and insurance law raise at company level, both in terms of establishing liability and assessing the damage resulting from it.
Read more for individuals*departement_casconcrets
- Accidents at work, personal or third-party liability in your capacity as principal
- Issues relating to insurance contracts: conclusion, modification, suspension of cover, interpretation of insurance policies and termination of contracts
- Liability for property damage, third-party liability
- Professional liability, construction defects, defects in goods sold
- Traffic accidents in Belgium or abroad resulting in death, bodily injury or only material damage
- Medical accidents, whether you are a victim or a healthcare professional
- Criminal defence before the Police Court in the event of a traffic offence: speeding, drink driving, driving without a licence, lack of insurance, assault and battery, etc.
*departement_avocats
*departement_casconcrets
- Traffic accidents in Belgium or abroad resulting in death, bodily injury or property damage only;
- Accidents at work or on the way to work, as well as issues related to recourse by the statutory insurer or public employer;
- Medical accidents, whether you are a victim or a healthcare professional;
- Accidents in your private life, personal liability or third-party liability in your capacity as a parent, teacher or principal : falls, assaults, animal-related incidents, incidents related to the practice of a sport or occurring in a school
- Various professional liabilities
- Criminal defence before the Police Court in the event of a traffic offence: speeding, drink driving, driving without a licence, lack of insurance, assault and battery, etc.
- Issues relating to insurance contracts: conclusion, modification, suspension of cover, interpretation of insurance policies and termination of contracts;
- Recourse by the insurer or other third-party payers (mutual insurance companies);
- Assessment of all aspects of personal injury in the event of the death of the victim or injury: medical expenses, moral damage, domestic damage, economic damage, cosmetic damage and other specific damages.
*departement_avocats
Tax
For businesses
We assist you during tax audits and defend you in administrative and legal proceedings. Our department guides and supports you every step of the way.
Read more for businessesFor individuals
We assist you during tax audits and defend you in administrative and legal proceedings. Our department guides and supports you every step of the way.
Read more for individuals*departement_casconcrets
- corporate tax, legal entity tax
- VAT
- Corporate restructuring (mergers, demergers, business transfers, due diligence)
- Anti-money laundering legislation
*departement_avocats
*departement_outils
*departement_casconcrets
- Personal income tax
- Estate and inheritance planning, transfer of family businesses
- Anti-money laundering legislation
*departement_avocats
Civil
For individuals
Are you experiencing difficulties in the performance of a contract? Whether you are a landlord or a tenant, are your relations with your co-contractor not going as planned? Are you no longer as keen on the house for which you made a firm offer and would like to withdraw your commitment?
Read more for individuals*departement_avocats
*departement_enbref
Our department will help you answer any questions you may have in order to avoid any disputes or, when this is not possible, to defend your interests before the competent courts, or even assist you in negotiating a settlement.
*departement_avocats
Companies in difficulty
For businesses
Our companies in difficulty department guides and supports you in anticipating and managing the economic difficulties that companies may encounter during their existence.
Read more for businesses*departement_enbref
It is never too late to seek advice, but above all, it is never too early! The legislator has established a legal system that allows companies to bounce back quickly when certain conditions are met. Our team will listen to you and provide useful advice on the best course of action to ensure the continuity of the business, cease trading, restructure, liquidate or prepare for bankruptcy proceedings and their consequences, etc., and get back on track by giving free rein to your entrepreneurial spirit. Whether the company or its director is facing cash flow difficulties that could lead to suspension of payments, negative equity, the director's liability being called into question, cessation of activity, the sale or acquisition of a business as part of a judicial reorganisation procedure, etc. , our team will provide you with appropriate solutions in compliance with the legal framework, using the following tools:
*departement_casconcrets
- Negotiations outside of legal proceedings
- Judicial reorganisation: amicable, by collective agreement, by transfer under judicial authority
- Bankruptcy law and company director liability – professional prohibition (?)
- Debt cancellation for bankrupt individuals – professional prohibition
- Voluntary or judicial liquidation
- Debtor insolvency: In particular, through monitoring the debtor's judicial reorganisation or bankruptcy
*departement_avocats
Criminal Law
For individuals
Whether you are a victim or an alleged perpetrator of a criminal offence, WALK can advise and assist you. Two of our solicitors are authorised to file appeals in criminal matters before the Court of cassation.
Read more for individuals*departement_enbref
Our department advises and assists you in administrative proceedings, judicial proceedings and alternatives to judicial proceedings, in both national languages, in general criminal law (assault, harassment, theft, fraud, slander, drugs, etc.) and in relation to traffic offences (speeding, parking, drink-driving, drunkenness, hit-and-run, etc.). We are dedicated to your criminal defence in the broadest sense at all stages of the proceedings: risk assessment, information phase, investigation, hearings, trial, etc. Two of our lawyers are authorised to file appeals in criminal matters with the Court of cassation.
*departement_avocats
Family
For individuals
WALK provides you with a team of lawyers who regularly practise family law, whether in terms of advice, support, assistance and defence in court or in the context of mediation.
Read more for individuals*departement_enbref
Our department will listen carefully to your needs and do everything possible to provide you with useful advice. WALK's multidisciplinary approach also enables us to answer any tax, social, societal or other questions that may affect your personal situation and thus define the strategy that best meets your needs and interests. Our areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, all matters relating to:
*departement_casconcrets
- Marriage (contracts, matrimonial property regime, etc.)
- Legal cohabitation
- Separation, divorce, liquidation of the matrimonial property regime
- Child custody
- Maintenance obligations
- Inheritance, donations, estate planning
- Termination of joint ownership
- Adoption
- Parentage
- Youth protection (minors at risk or juvenile offenders)
- Administration of persons and property
- Extrajudicial protection
*departement_avocats
Construction
For businesses
We advise, assist and represent professionals in the construction sector (architects, contractors, developers, subcontractors) in all aspects of construction law.
Read more for businessesFor individuals
All real estate transactions require expertise in many legal areas. Our department supports, advises and represents you in all aspects of construction law.
Read more for individuals*departement_enbref
With a solution-oriented approach, we advise our clients on all aspects of construction law. We also assist our clients in the context of amicable or judicial technical appraisals. In the event of a dispute, we first assess the chances of success to define the strategy to be adopted and the appropriateness of conducting negotiations. Keen to support our clients at all stages of their projects, we are particularly active in the following areas:
*departement_casconcrets
- Drafting, analysis and negotiation of architect, contractor, property development and subcontracting agreements;
- Actions for contractual, extra-contractual and ten-year liability;
- Disorders, defects and poor workmanship;
- Abandonment of construction sites and replacement procedures
- Compliance with best practices, technical standards and contractual requirements
- Budget overruns
- Construction delays
- Direct action by subcontractors
- Recovery of unpaid invoices and fees
*departement_avocats
*departement_enbref
With a solution-oriented approach, we advise our clients on all aspects of construction law. We also assist our clients in the context of amicable or judicial technical appraisals. In the event of a dispute, we first assess the chances of success in order to define the strategy to be adopted and the appropriateness of conducting negotiations. Keen to support our clients at every stage of their projects, we are particularly active in the following areas:
*departement_casconcrets
- Drafting, analysis and negotiation of architect, contractor, property development and subcontracting agreements;
- Actions for contractual, extra-contractual and ten-year liability;
- Disorders, defects and poor workmanship;
- Abandonment of construction sites and replacement procedures
- Compliance with best practices, technical standards and contractual requirements
- Budget overruns
- Construction delays
- Direct action by subcontractors
- Recovery of unpaid invoices and fees
*departement_avocats
Mediation
Our mediation lawyers
Our team of experienced lawyers will advise and support you during mediation meetings. We combine our legal expertise with our mastery of alternative dispute resolution methods to promote lasting and balanced agreements.
read moreOur mediators
As certified mediators in Louvain-la-Neuve and Brussels, we help you find constructive solutions to your disputes. Neutral and impartial, we facilitate dialogue to reach a balanced agreement.
Discover our approach on TALK*departement_enbref
Mediation is a way to resolve your disputes quickly and permanently without going to court. It is a confidential process overseen by a neutral and impartial third party. The aim is to reach agreements that are acceptable to all parties by establishing or restoring dialogue between them.
*departement_casconcrets
- Disputes between partners, shareholders, business partners, etc.
- Disputes in the context of divorce, separation, etc.
- Conflicts in the context of the execution of works, etc.
- Rental problems
- Neighbourhood disputes
- Etc.
*departement_entreprise_mediation
*departement_enbref
Mediation is a way to resolve your disputes quickly and sustainably without going to court. It is a confidential process facilitated by a neutral and impartial third party. The aim is to reach agreements that are acceptable to everyone by establishing or restoring dialogue between the parties.
*departement_casconcrets
- separation, divorce
- cohabitation
- inheritance
- intergenerational relationships
- neighbourhood issues
- rental disputes
- compensation for damage
- payment of a bill
- etc.
*departement_particuliers_mediation
Our team of specialist lawyers
Amélie Dopagne
Maureen Philippart
Louise Arbalestrie
Dominique Buysschaert
Manon Oger
Arnaud Wustefeld
Charles Vandenbroucke
Cécile Van Ackere
Domitille Poncelet
Doriane Borgers
Alison Henry
Raphaël Bocken
Philippe Roche
Gautier Pirard
Florence Clip
Marie-Alexia Levie
Coraline Bhamani
Sophie Rousseaux
Cerise Alix
Elodie Schepetlevane
Philippe Dandoy
Audrey Pütz
Philippe Moens
Hugues Bary
Ilian Besohe
Joanna Princen
Fanny Leleu
Bertrande Chaidron
Maureen Frateur
Julien Dubois
Ingrid Delangh
Christophe Baudoux
Petra Vanhoudenhoven
Charlotte Marlet
Corentin Oudar
Maxime Wouters
Nicolas de Jamblinne
Stijn Splingard
Rodolphe de San
Victoria Socquet
Florian Lecomte
Ludivine Luyckx
Valentine Delvaux
Mimoza Halili
Bérénice Fosséprez
Hedwige Hellebaut
Nicolas Wouters
Thomas Vulhopp
Florence Lamache
Our tools, designed to make your life easier
A lex pack starting at €720.00 excluding VAT, covering 16 units of 15 minutes of services
LexPack ® is designed as a tool to assist in the day-to-day management of a company that does not have an in-house legal department. LexPack ® enables managers to ensure the legal quality of the decisions they make on a daily basis. With LexPack ®, your lawyers are your company's legal advisors, at a moderate, predetermined cost. You know what you are paying for. You will not pay anything other than what has been agreed. Of course, accidents can always happen, but careful, proactive management reduces the risk of litigation. Investing in LexPack ® means immediate savings... and savings increase your company's profitability... without any extra effort.
