Equity
€1.1m ▼ 5.0%
Scale paid out €59,398 in dividends. That is 230% of the 2025 profit.
Scale
Lifetime
19 annual accounts with figures on one time axis, 24 filings since 2002peak €3.2m (2024)
€3.0m▼ 4.7%
peak €972,559 (2024)
€25,809▼ 97.3%
peak €2.1m (2023)
€1.1m▼ 5.0%
€4.7m▲ 18.7%
peak 26.6 FTE (2023)
22.6 FTE▼ 5.0%
Board13 names since 2004all names
9 directorsLKJ bv and 8 others
Documentsfilings and deeds
09-12-202553 days before the deadline
2025abbreviated format
Result from €972,559 to €25,8092 directors appointed 24-10Resignation: Marco Schoups BV (managing director) 18-08Dividend €59,398Debts from €3.9m to €4.7mInvestments €608,596
Key points
from the 2025 annual accountsResult
€25,809 ▼ 97.3%
The result fell in 2025 from €972,559 to €25,809.
Debts
€4.7m 80% of the balance sheet
Financial debts 40%Suppliers 31%Taxes and wages 3%Other 26%
Of this, €2.8m falls due within a year.
Investments
€608,596 2.7 × depreciation
Green is investment, beige is depreciation. Machinery stands 28.9% higher than in 2024.
Staff
27 employees on 30-06-2025
In 2025, 60 people joined and 56 left.
Filings
24 annual accounts since 2002
The last five annual accounts were filed 22 to 58 days before the end of the period.
Checked score
87
Excellent
Financially stronger than 18% of small companies in legal and accounting (NACE 69)
Probability in this band: under 0.55%
Bankruptcy probability within 12 months
0.1% Very low
0%0.5%1.5%4%10%≥ 25%
The dashed line is the sector median: < 0.1% across 1,476 companies (NACE 69, small).
About 1 in 1,000 comparable companies go bankrupt within 12 months (an estimate).
Last 24 months
12-2024: 0.2%
01-2025: 0.3%▲ +0.1 percentage points vs 12-2024highest value
02-2025: 0.3%● unchanged vs 01-2025highest value
03-2025: 0.1%▼ -0.2 percentage points vs 02-2025
04-2025: 0.1%● unchanged vs 03-2025
05-2025: 0.1%● unchanged vs 04-2025
06-2025: 0.1%● unchanged vs 05-2025
07-2025: 0.1%● unchanged vs 06-2025
08-2025: 0.1%● unchanged vs 07-2025
09-2025: 0.2%▲ +0.1 percentage points vs 08-2025
10-2025: 0.2%● unchanged vs 09-2025
11-2025: 0.2%● unchanged vs 10-2025
12-2025: 0.2%● unchanged vs 11-2025
01-2026: 0.1%▼ -0.1 percentage points vs 12-2025
02-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 01-2026lowest value
03-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 02-2026lowest value
04-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 03-2026lowest value
05-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 04-2026lowest value
06-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 05-2026lowest value
07-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 06-2026lowest value
08-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 07-2026lowest value
09-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 08-2026
10-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 09-2026
11-2026: 0.1%● unchanged vs 10-2026
Financial strengthWeak
Score breakdown
raises risk
Size: 22.6 FTE, total assets €5.8m
Liquidity: current ratio 1.77, cash €389,676
Equity €1.1m (19.5% of total assets)
lowers risk
Sector: Legal and accounting activities (NACE 69)
Calculation
The band follows from the bankruptcy probability. 10 more points roughly halve it.
| 75-100 | Excellent | under 0.55% |
| 60-74 | Healthy | 0.55% to 1.5% |
| 45-59 | Fair | 1.5% to 4.2% |
| 25-44 | Weak | 4.2% to 15.0% |
| 0-24 | Critical | over 15.0% |
Where the company stands within its band depends half on the bankruptcy probability and half on how it does against its sector peers (NACE 69, small). It does better than 27% of them on solvency, 13% on liquidity, 12% on profitability and 18% on growth.
The bankruptcy probability was computed on 09-11-2026 by the bankruptcy model of 2 October 2026, which learns from Belgian bankruptcies and reads the registers, the annual accounts and the Belgian Official Gazette.
The probability rests on the annual accounts with balance sheet date 30-06-2025.
Of the companies with a bankruptcy probability in the very low class on 30-06-2025, 0.1% went bankrupt within twelve months.
Some facts cap the score, however low the probability. With negative or zero equity, a heavy loss, a special status in the KBO, one missing filing or accounts filed more than 90 days late, the score is Fair at most (59). With two missing filings, it is Weak at most (44). During a judicial reorganisation or at the company's end (bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), it is Critical at most (24).
Comparable companies, two years later
In July 2024, 4,685 companies had the same profile as Scale has now. Each dot stands for 12 companies, two years later.
97.0%
were still trading
1.9%
stopped another way
1.1%
went bankrupt
That fits the bankruptcy probability of Scale itself: 0.1% within 12 months.
Test of the method
The method was tested on the 497,447 companies of July 2024. Each company was given the bankruptcy share of the same profile a year earlier, in July 2023. The expectation was that 1.6% would go bankrupt within 24 months. In fact 1.7% went bankrupt.
| Group | Expected | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| 2 | 0.3% | 0.5% |
| 3 | 0.5% | 0.6% |
| 4 | 0.7% | 0.8% |
| 5 | 0.9% | 0.9% |
| 6 | 1.3% | 1.5% |
| 7 | 1.6% | 1.8% |
| 8 | 1.8% | 1.8% |
| 9 | 3.0% | 3.1% |
| 10 | 5.6% | 6.2% |
A company that went bankrupt had a higher expected share than one that kept going in 74.5% of comparisons. The level depends on the economy. In a year with more bankruptcies than the year before, the actual share is higher than the expected one.
This is an observation about 4,685 companies, not a prediction for Scale. The sector does not count, because the KBO no longer lists a sector for a company that has stopped. By sector, mostly the survivors would count, which would paint too rosy a picture.
Credit verdict
Credit of up to €95,000 on 30-day terms is acceptable
Liquidity is ample, with a current ratio of 1.77 (1.71 in 2024), above the usual 1.5. Short-term debt is 48.2% and cash 6.7% of total assets. However, 80.5% of the assets are financed with debt and provisions.
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Signals
Five signals.
lowers riskraises riskneutral
neutral · Latest accounts filed on time
The financial year that closed on 30-06-2025 was due by 31-01-2026 and was filed on 09-12-2025, 53 days ahead of the deadline.
NBB · 10 filingsDeviation from the deadline
2025
53 days early
2024
58 days early
2023
22 days early
2022
42 days early
2021
55 days early
2020
26 days early
2019
42 days early
← before the deadline
after the deadline →
tick = median of all Belgian filingsring = median in the sector
The company filed its last 7 accounts on average 43 days before the deadline. In the sector (NACE 69), the median for financial year 2024 was 9 days before the deadline, and 32% of those companies filed late.
Searched, nothing found (2)
neutral · Next filing not due yet
The financial year that closed on 30-06-2026 is due by 31-01-2027. Nothing is late today. The company usually files around 9 December (4 of the last 5 accounts filed within 30 days either side of that date).
Companies Code · seven monthsWhere today falls in the filing period
30-06-2026 year end09-11-2026 today31-01-2027 deadline
Board and ownership
AM
Advocatenkantoor Maarten Somers BVBA
Director
DM
Dave Mertens BVBA
Director
KH
Kristof Hectors BVBA
Director
BM
Benjamin Marchandise BV
Director
Recent changes
Registered in the Peppol Directory
Reachable for e-invoices through 0208:0473474222
Company renamed from SCHOUPS to Scale
Gazette deed
2 directors appointed
Stefaan Wauman BV and Advocatenkantoor STVB BV · Permanent representatives: Stefaan Wauman and Sofie Bontinck · General meeting of 22-09-2025 · Gazette deed
Resignation: Marco Schoups BV (managing director)
Permanent representative: Marco Schoups · Director discharge: Marco Schoups BV · General meeting of 30-06-2025 · Gazette deed
Comparable companies
same main activity, similar in size and age| Company | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scale Antwerp | €5.8m | €3.0m | 19.5% | 22.6 |
| GSJ advocaten Antwerp | €7.0m | €3.1m | 6.1% | 26.2 |
| ADVOCATEN ZONDER GRENZEN Etterbeek | €6.3m | €3.8m | 15.5% | 20.4 |
| SIMONT BRAUN Ixelles | €5.2m | €3.8m | 14.7% | 15.2 |
| Osborne Clarke Ixelles | €5.0m | €2.3m | 8.8% | 18.8 |
| elegis – LEB, Association d’avocats Liège | €4.5m | €3.3m | 0.2% | 12.6 |
| GEVACO ADVOCATEN Beringen | €4.3m | €2.3m | 1.1% | 11.9 |
These companies have the same main activity as Scale: activities of lawyers (NACE 69101). They are comparable in size and age: total assets between €4.3m and €7m, founded between 1990 and 2013.
Official details
Source: KBO- Status
- Active since 11-12-2000Normal situation
- Registered office
- 10 active companies are registered at this address2 started in the 12 months before. Source: KBO register, as of 9 November 2026.
- Activity
- Activities of lawyersNACE 69101
- Joint committee
- 336Liberal professions · annual accounts 30-06-2024
- Establishment units
- 2.187.402.4582018 Antwerp, since 09-07-2004
- 2.196.322.6961000 Brussels, since 01-01-2011
- Financial year end
- 30 June
- Peppol
- Reachable since 03-07-2026
Annual accounts to 30-06-2025
- ≈ €5.2mestimated
- €5.8m▲ 13.2%
- Employeeson 30-06-2025
- 27▲ 17.4%
- Filing
- Filed on 09-12-2025, 53 days before the end of the filing period
Insights on Scale
Scale files the abbreviated format. That format states no turnover. The gross margin rose from €413,462 in 2007 to €3.0m in 2025.
Sources: KBO register, filings at the National Bank, Belgian Official Gazette. Click a figure with a dotted line for the item and the filing.
Key facts about Scale
- What is the company number of Scale?
- The company number of Scale is 0473.474.222. The VAT number is the same number with BE in front: BE 0473.474.222.
- Where is Scale based?
- The registered office is at Mechelsesteenweg 127A, 2018 Antwerp.Company details
- What does Scale do?
- According to the KBO register, the main activity is activities of lawyers (NACE 69101).
- What is the legal form of Scale?
- Scale is a private limited company (BV).
- When was Scale founded?
- Scale was founded on 11-12-2000.
- Is Scale still active?
- Yes, Scale is an active enterprise in the KBO register.
- How many employees does Scale have?
- Scale had an average of 22.6 full-time equivalents in financial year 2025, according to the filed annual accounts.Financials
- Which joint committee does Scale fall under?
- In its 30-06-2024 annual accounts, Scale states joint committee 336 (Liberal professions).
- What is the turnover of Scale?
- The turnover in financial year 2025 is ≈ €5.2m. This figure is estimated from the gross margin of €3.0m and 1,585 comparable companies of the same size. It probably lies between €3.5m and €8.6m. It is a rough estimate.
- Is Scale profitable?
- In financial year 2025, Scale made a profit of €25,809.
- Where can I find the annual accounts of Scale?
- Scale filed 24 annual accounts with the National Bank of Belgium, the latest for financial year 2025.
- When are the next annual accounts of Scale due?
- Scale must file the annual accounts for financial year 2026 by 31-01-2027.Timeline
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