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Cresco Advocaten

Cresco Advocaten

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Belgium

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Dispute resolution

Cresco Advocaten assists on a broad range of disputes across the corporate and commercial law space. Leveraging strong relationships across the Belgian start-up, scale-up, and entrepreneurial landscape, the firm demonstrates particular strength in the technology sector. Steven Daems heads the practice and represents corporates, investors, directors, and entrepreneurs across post-M&A, commercial, shareholder, directors’ liability, and IP disputes. Elyse Vandevelde supports on corporate, commercial, and IP litigation.

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Accolades

Client satisfaction: NPS ®

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'The cresco lawyers stayed cool and focused on the case. I can only strongly recommend anyone to work with them.’
  • 'Elyse Vandevelde and Steven Daems made sure I knew exactly what was going to happen and how they were going to do it.'
  • 'For them this was not just another case but it felt like they were part of my company and really fought for it.'
  • ‘Amazing team, disciplined, professional, quick to respond.’
  • 'Cresco strictly focuses on business law which gives them an edge in terms of expertise and exposure to "similar" cases.'
  • 'Steven Daems is involved and effective.'
  • 'Easy to approach.'
  • ‘Amber Sampana: excellent deep technical knowledge; solutions driven.'

Key clients

  • ROXELL
  • BNP Paribas Fortis
  • SPACEWELL - MCS
  • KEMIN EUROPA
  • Eurobrillance

Work highlights

Advised and successfully assisted (in court) a member of a well-known entrepreneurial family against claims formulated upon instructions of a major investment fund, requesting the shutdown of a successful venture and the handover of all intellectual property related to said venture.
Advised and successfully assisted (in court) an international software company in its commercial litigation against a major Belgian media concern.
Assistance in court of a former director in relation to a claim in directors’ liability in a high-profile bankruptcy file.
Practice head

Steven Daems

Other key lawyers

Elyse Vandevelde