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Marlies Van de Poel

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Work Department

• not-for-profit, social profit and impact economy

Position

• lawyer

• advisory and transactional work in the field of company law and non/social profit law (partnerships, establishements, restructurings, liablity, employment law)
• litigation (company & associations law)

Career

• lawyer at impact lawyers, since 2019
• member of the board of directors of Academics for Development, a non-profit consulting organization focused on social entrepreneurship, 2017 – 2020
• cold case researcher at Maastricht University Faculty of Law, 2019
• different internships (Belgian Court of Cassation, Studio 100 Benelux, Human Rights organisation REDRESS, Progress Lawyers Network), 2017 – 2018

Languages

• Dutch (mothertongue)
• English (fluent)

Memberships

• ETION
• The Shift
• GAIL (Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers)
• BE-impact

Education

• Participant in The Shift’s Challengers programme 2022
• Advanced Masters in corporate law, 2019 – 2021
• Interdisciplinary master in forensics, criminology and law (Maastricht University, 2018 – 2019)
• Master of law (KU Leuven, University of Iceland and Université catholique de Louvain, 2016 – 2018)
• Bachelor of law (KU Leuven, 2013 – 2016)