BIOGRAPHY
Geert studied law at KU Leuven and obtained a Master’s degree in Business Law from U.I. Antwerp. He began his professional career in 1991 at the Limburg Bar and founded in 1999 the firm that played a key role in the establishment of Paqt Advocaten. In 2024, he became Partner at Moore Law.
He is a mediator in civil and commercial disputes.
Since 1995, he has been regularly appointed as curator, provisional administrator, liquidator, and court-appointed representative in judicial reorganisations.
Geert enthusiastically leads the teams of the insolvency expertise centre and the commercial law expertise centre.
Geert believes in collaboration and the strength of a strong team. Working together means cooperating with clients, colleagues, and all stakeholders involved in a case.
SPECIALISATION
Insolvency and companies in difficulty (advice and disputes, procedures and mediation)
- Judicial reorganisation, transfer under judicial authority, KOIM, bankruptcy, dissolution and liquidation
- Liability in the context of insolvency
- Provisional administration of companies
- Acting as a judicial representative
- Concurrence, privileges and mortgages, seizure
- Security rights and financial law, credits
- Negotiation with creditors and financial partners
Commercial and corporate law and contracts (advice and disputes, procedures and mediation)
- Drafting, negotiation, and review of commercial contracts
- Distribution, agency, concession, franchise, commission, independent collaboration, commercial lease…
- Commercial disputes
- Debt collection and recovery
- Civil contracts (sale, lease, …)