Commercial law

Commercial law

Commercial law deals with disputes involving salespeople, be that a single salesperson or a trading company. Within commercial law there is also the section of corporate law, which deals with how companies work and how disputes are treated within trading companies and professional partnerships, their bodies and shareholders.

We can assist you both preventively and curatively and because of the nature of cases dealt with by us, we are capable of approaching each case from several points of view before, and always by mutual consent with the customer, deciding om which strategy to follow to achieve the most successful result.

Debt collecting

VERCRAEYE Solicitors also take care of, –apart from our already well-known services-, collecting outstanding debts of all kinds and that at market compliant, reasonable and negotiable rates.

We are capable of contributing professionally to an efficient debtor management within your company.

In our debt collecting department we work with these negotiable conditions:

Our fee is calculated as follows, unless otherwise agreed:

• If only the principal sum or part thereof is recovered, our fee shall be 10% of the received amount, with a minimum of €100.-,
• If principal sum is paid, plus interests and penalties, principal sum and interests are transferred to customer and all penalties are kept as payment of fee, also with a minimum of 10% of the principal sum and a minimum of €100.- to be charged,
• If debtor only pays after notification, these litigation costs which also need to be paid by the debtor shall also be kept as part of our fee,
• If a procedure takes several sessions, a flat fee of €75.- per extra session from the second session onwards shall be charged,
• If no monies can be recovered, in case of the debtor’s bankruptcy of insolvency for example making it impossible for anything to be recovered, an hourly rate of €75.- shall be charged, also with a minimum fee of €100.-.

Office expenses are €10.- per office unit, i.e. per written page (letter, e-mail, request, conclusion…) which is the general rate going.

All legal and bailiff costs linked with the recovery procedure will be charged to the customer, but are eventually the responsibility of the debtor which makes that these, generally speaking, are recovered.

If debtor however has serious objections causing for written conclusions etc. to be drawn, then these above mentioned rates shall no longer be valid and the dossier shall be, by mutual consent with the customer, treated based on the terms and conditions of VERCRAEYE Solicitors, which can be found on this website.

Insurance law

If someone suffers any damage, the liability question arises, because the person held liable shall also be the one responsible for any compensation.

Insurance  policies are taken in order to be covered against risks of all kinds. Insurers keep a very keen eye on the compliance with the agreed cover by the policyholder. More specifically, they thoroughly check the policy and its general and specific terms and conditions.

We can assist you in all possible disputes of an insurance technical nature.

Diamond sector

VERCRAEYE Solicitors is an Antwerp office of solicitors and Antwerp is irrevocably linked with the diamond sector.

We have extensive experience in this very specific sector  sector and can be of assistance to you in terms of all possible disputes going from commercial disputes, for which the normal Courts of Justice are authorised, to disputes between diamond traders for whom different legislation is applicable as a result of their membership with the Antwerp Diamond Bourse, i.e. and for example national or even international arbitration.