Activities of lawyers
Filed accounts
NACE 69101 · financial year 2025 · 9,189 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 54.4% | 56.4% | 57.8% | 58.8% | 60.0% | 58.2% |
| Median net result | €32,504 | €34,920 | €33,767 | €35,905 | €38,827 | €40,454 |
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Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 19-10-2026 | Nijboer, Christiaan
BE 0812.440.326 · sole trader · Aartselaar |
| 19-10-2026 | HAWK
BE 1023.806.195 |
| 23-07-2026 | Agio Legal
BE 0544.553.941 |
| 24-06-2026 | Soblet, Dimitri
BE 0816.364.173 · sole trader · Virton |
| 10-06-2026 | HERSSENS-VAN HAMME
BE 0543.552.168 |
| 28-05-2026 | ADVOCATENKANTOOR PIETER-PAUL TACK
BE 0470.943.413 |
| 18-05-2026 | Servranckx, Jeremy
BE 0823.226.726 · sole trader · Woluwe-Saint-Pierre |
| 08-05-2026 | Bazier, Marie
BE 0863.038.692 · sole trader · Assesse |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 11,402 of 22,326 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 69 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 69101 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 LEROY ET ASSOCIESIxelles 102 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 LIEDEKERKE WOLTERS WAELBROECK KIRKPATRICKBrussels 51.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 TiberghienBrussels 51.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 LOYENS & LOEFF ADVOCATEN-AVOCATSEtterbeek 50.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 CLAEYS & ENGELSWatermael-Boitsfort 45.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 1,110 companies- 336 Liberal professions 1,030
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 74
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 35
- 216 Notaries' employees 3
- 101 Mining 2
- 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 2
- 102.01 Quarries 1
- 112 Garages 1
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- 144 Agriculture 1
- 302 Hotels and catering 1
- 304 Performing arts 1
- 314 Hairdressing and beauty care 1
- 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 1
- 341 Intermediation in banking and investment services 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 69: Legal and accounting
Related activities
3 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Other legal services69109 | 2,755 | 326 | 7 | 1,071 |
| Activities of notaries69102 | 2,259 | 113 | 0 | 6,697 |
| Activities of bailiffs69103 | 1,018 | 65 | 0 | 1,634 |
Bankruptcies per year in division 69
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 44 | 32 | 26 | 94 | 98 | 73 | 55 | 66 | 72 | 68 | 79 | 62 |
| Jobs lost | 58 | 55 | 33 | 121 | 134 | 113 | 63 | 122 | 94 | 98 | 137 | 77 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 69
2,590 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €65,400 | €51,600 to €78,800 | 2,005 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €71,500 | €60,100 to €82,100 | 535 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €72,000 | €65,100 to €79,700 | 39 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 69Measured nationally: Of 108,810 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 14 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
18 of the 26,968 companies in NACE division 69 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Luxembourg (5), Netherlands (5) and France (4). Together they employ 166 of the division's 27,616 FTE: 0.6%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €31.7m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.4m paid
- Federal transfers 46.4m amount as published
- EU budget €148.3m attributed share
- EU research €17.6m EU contribution
Insights on Activities of lawyers
Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 40.9% is above Belgium's 15.9%. The median net result of €40,454 is above Belgium's €16,468. 3.0% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 0.7 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 83% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 28.4% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 6.7 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 48.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 301 of the 2,016 FTE: 14.9%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 54.4% in financial year 2020 to 58.2% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €32,504 in financial year 2020 to €40,454 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 14-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2025 classification, the version in which code 69101 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,430 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,464 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.