List of Lawyers in Belgium

Last updated 5 November 2026

There are 27,348 lawyers in Belgium, one in every 87 Belgian companies. Most of them are small: nearly all have one to four people, and only 8 firms employ 50 people or more. One in four law firms is based in Antwerpen, Ixelles, Bruxelles, Gent and Uccle. Below you find the largest law firms in Belgium, the cities where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our Belgian company database or through the KBO API.

27,348 companies indexed · Data counted on 5 November 2026

Companies27,3481 in87 Belgian companiesCities579Largest cityAntwerpen 1,959Sole traders45%Employees1-4 (99%)Revenue< $100K (68%)Email30%Phone52%Website30%

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	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Baker & Mckenzie	Belgium	Saint-josse-ten-noode	Avenue Du Boulevard 21, Internal Postal Box 1	Bruxelles Capitale	1210	*****.com	1983	$102,566,033	44	Corporation	28	BE0426100511
2	Loyens & Loeff Advocaten-Avocats	Belgium	Etterbeek	Avenue de Tervueren 2	Bruxelles Capitale	1040	*****.com	2009	$68,616,401	52	Corporation	10	BE0821233870
3	Eubelius	Belgium	Ixelles	Avenue Louise 99	Bruxelles Capitale	1050	*****.com	1997	$61,211,034	42	Corporation	4	BE0460946968
4	Deloitte Legal-Lawyers	Belgium	Zaventem	Luchthaven Brussel Nationaal 1 J	Vlaams Brabant	1930	*****.be	2000	$54,944,135	36	Corporation	6	BE0471858874
5	Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick	Belgium	Bruxelles	Boulevard de L'Empereur 3	Bruxelles Capitale	1000	*****.com	2002	$51,938,469	49	Corporation	2	BE0478065191
6	Tiberghien	Belgium	Bruxelles	Avenue Du Port 86c, Internal Postal Box 419	Bruxelles Capitale	1000	*****.com	1977	$38,689,605	57	Corporation	7	BE0417899754
7	Monard Law	Belgium	Woluwe-saint-pierre	Avenue de Tervueren 270	Bruxelles Capitale	1150	*****.be	2013	$38,421,183	35	Corporation	5	BE0538839651
8	Nautadutilh	Belgium	Bruxelles	Chaussee de la Hulpe 120	Bruxelles Capitale	1000	*****.com	2003	$37,413,552	29	Corporation	9	BE0479249878
9	Claeys & Engels	Belgium	Watermael-boitsfort	Boulevard Du Souverain 25	Bruxelles Capitale	1170	*****.be	2000	$36,471,211	52	Corporation	7	BE0473547070
10	Cms Debacker	Belgium	Watermael-boitsfort	Chaussee de la Hulpe 178	Bruxelles Capitale	1170	*****.law	1987	$27,691,258	33	Corporation	2	BE0430408301
11	Pwc Legal	Belgium	Machelen	Culliganlaan 5	Vlaams Brabant	1831	*****.be	2013	$26,687,624	14	Corporation	5	BE0537875391
12	Argo Law	Belgium	Antwerpen	Borsbeeksebrug 28	Antwerpen	2600	*****.be	2013	$26,481,203	12	Corporation	2	BE0533993314
13	Kpmg Law	Belgium	Zaventem	Luchthaven Brussel Nationaal 1k	Vlaams Brabant	1930	*****.com	2012	$26,411,654	18	Corporation	7	BE0844900979
14	Janson	Belgium	Watermael-boitsfort	Chaussee de la Hulpe 187	Bruxelles Capitale	1170	*****.be	1987	$25,172,643	23	Corporation	2	BE0432711951
15	Altius	Belgium	Bruxelles	Avenue Du Port 86c, Internal Postal Box 414	Bruxelles Capitale	1000	*****.com	2001	$20,995,995	22	Corporation	N/A	BE0476389071
16	Quinz	Belgium	Vilvoorde	Medialaan 28b	Vlaams Brabant	1800	*****.be	2024	$18,562,392	6	Corporation	2	BE0837393773
17	Leroy Et Associes	Belgium	Ixelles	Avenue de la Couronne 358	Bruxelles Capitale	1050	*****.be	1993	$18,095,230	99	Cooperative	N/A	BE0451828968
18	Astrea	Belgium	Antwerpen	Posthofbrug 6, Internal Postal Box 1	Antwerpen	2600	*****.be	2006	$16,863,083	11	Corporation	2	BE0885184584
19	Strelia	Belgium	Bruxelles	Rue de la Regence 52	Bruxelles Capitale	1000	*****.com	2012	$14,669,868	16	Corporation	N/A	BE0501600559
20	Ey Law	Belgium	Machelen	Kouterveldstraat 7b, Internal Postal Box 2	Vlaams Brabant	1831	*****.be	2024	$14,070,999	7	Corporation	5	BE0536360510
21	Vs Advocaten	Belgium	Gent	Durmstraat 29	Oost Vlaanderen	9030	*****.be	2006	$5,089,117	11	Corporation	2	BE0878449816
22	Geradin Partners Newco	Belgium	Ixelles	Avenue Louise 475	Bruxelles Capitale	1050	*****.com	2023	$4,949,416	17	Corporation	4	BE0797435119
23	Save The Children Europe	Belgium	Bruxelles	Rue Marie-therèse 21	Bruxelles Capitale	1000	*****.net	2019	$3,333,500	12	Non profit organization	N/A	BE0724864964
24	Ethikos	Belgium	Ixelles	Avenue Louise 66	Bruxelles Capitale	1050	*****.be	2019	$3,103,464	2	Corporation	2	BE0730976063
25	A Legal Affair	Belgium	Sint-martens-latem	Gustaaf de Smetlaan 11	Oost Vlaanderen	9831	*****.com	2011	$2,473,381	6	Partnership of unknown type	8	BE0840843807

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Largest law firms in Belgium

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in Antwerpen, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is the largest law firm in Belgium by headcount. 8 firms employ 50 people or more; 4 employ 100 or more.

1IxellesForeign company143 staff
2IxellesForeign company136 staff
3Etterbeek108 staff
4Ixelles99 staff
5Bruxelles57 staff
6Etterbeek52 staff
7Etterbeek50 staff
8Ixelles50 staff
9BruxellesForeign company50 staff
10Bruxelles49 staff

By employee size · 25,882 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	25,703	99%
5-9	105	0.4%
10-19	45	0.2%
20-49	21	<0.1%
50-99	4	<0.1%
100-199	4	<0.1%
200-499	0	0%
500-999	0	0%
1,000+	0	0%

99% have 1 to 4 people; 21 have 20 to 49; 8 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	16,203	68%
$100K-$500K	7,319	31%
$500K-$1M	36	0.2%
$1M-$5M	92	0.4%
$5M-$10M	1	<0.1%
$10M-$50M	15	<0.1%
$50M-$100M	4	<0.1%
$100M-$500M	1	<0.1%

68% under $100,000; 92 between $1M and $5M; 21 above $5M.

Where in Belgium?

Antwerpen has the most lawyers in Belgium (1,959), ahead of Ixelles (1,921), Bruxelles (1,566), Gent (1,025) and Uccle (726). Together the five hold one in four of them. Relative to their size, Elsene, Watermael-Boitsfort and Ixelles have the most: 4.6 to 6.1 times the national share.

Cities by number of firms

579 Belgian cities have at least one law firm; 353 have ten or more; 36 have exactly one. Click a city to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Law firms per 100 companies, in cities with at least 100 of them. The national share is 1.15. Elsene has 6.1 times the national share.

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Dashed line: the national share. A filled dot is twice the national share or more.

By province 18 provinces

Province	Firms	%
Bruxelles Capitale	7,396	27%
Antwerpen	3,995	15%
Oost Vlaanderen	2,874	11%
Vlaams Brabant	2,496	9%
West Vlaanderen	2,028	7%
Liège	1,552	6%
Limburg	1,508	6%
Hainaut	1,442	5%
Brabant Wallon	983	4%
Brussel Hoofdstad	656	2%

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Law firms in Antwerpen

Antwerpen has 1,959 lawyers and law firms, 1.8% of all 108,393 Antwerpen companies and 58% above the national share. Nearly all Antwerpen firms have fewer than five people; none has 50 or more. 79 new firms were entered in 2026, 77 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 1,826 · 99%
5-9: 11 · 0.6%
10-19: 5 · 0.3%
20-49: 2 · 0.1%
50+: 0 · 0%

Legal form

Sole traders: 720 · 37%
Partnerships: 66 · 3%
BV/SRL and NV/SA: 887 · 45%
Other or none: 286 · 15%

Of the Belgian total: 7.2%
Of all Antwerpen companies: 1.8%
Against the national share: 1.6×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 79
Entered 2025: 188
Of Belgium's 2026 entries: 7.7%

Old

Before 1990: 77 · 4%
1990 or later: 1,882 · 96%
Of Belgium's pre-1990 firms: 6.7%

Reachable

Email: 634 · 32%
Phone: 950 · 48%
Website: 654 · 33%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 1,118 · 67%
$100K-$500K: 541 · 32%
$500K-$1M: 5 · 0.3%
$1M and more: 13 · 0.8%

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Firm sizes in Belgium

Of the 25,882 Belgian law firms with a known headcount, 25,703 (99%) have one to four people, 105 have five to nine, 66 have ten to 49 and 8 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over under $100,000 a year (16,203, 68%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all Belgian companies

Micro under 1025,808 100%
Small 10 to 4966 0.3%
Medium 50 to 2498 <0.1%
Large 250+0 0.0%

Grey line: the share among all Belgian companies (98% have under ten staff).

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 20 more than $10 million.

1,029

firms were entered in 2026.

How many lawyers are there in Belgium?

Lawyers and law firms in Belgium

27,348

5 November 2026

There are 27,348 lawyers and law firms in Belgium in our data (5 November 2026). That is one in every 87 Belgian companies. About 5 new firms are entered in the register every working day this year (1,029 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 20,191 74%
Head offices: 3,495
Branch offices: 3,662

Classification

NACE-BEL 2008 code 69101, NACE Rev. 2 691. Our platform filter is NACE-BEL 2008 69101.

10,577 of the 27,348 are BV/SRL and NV/SA (39%); 12,319 are sole traders. They come from Kruispuntbank van Ondernemingen (KBO/BCE) and our Belgian register data, through the KBO API.

The oldest firms in Belgium

Our data holds 0 Belgian law firms from before 1900, 0 from before 1950 and 1,144 from before 1990.

1965
1. Ixelles
1966
1. Gent
1969
1. Schaerbeek
1970
1. Auvelais
1970
1. Antwerpen
1971
1. Liège

Fewer than five firms date from before 1950, so the timeline starts with the oldest firms before 1990.

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1,144

Belgian law firms date from before 1990

153

were entered in 1990

How reachable are they?

Law firms are easier to reach than the average Belgian company: 52% list a phone number and 30% a website.

Email8,242 30%
Phone14,294 52%
Website8,099 30%

Grey line: all Belgian companies (email 23%, phone 43%, website 27%).

The full list with these fields is in our Belgian company database.

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 37 law firms for every one of the tax consultants in Belgium.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Lawyers	27,348	30%	94%
Cleaning Companies	18,646	25%	82%
Employment Agencies	7,502	47%	59%
Translation Companies	5,489	17%	97%
Notaries	2,746	61%	63%
Tax Consultants	745	84%	69%

In other countries

Belgium has more law firms than Sweden or the UK, and more per company than either.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
Belgium	27,348	11.5
Sweden	3,884	2.1
The UK	1,858	0.2

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Newcomers in Belgium in 2026

1,029 law firms were entered in the Belgian register so far in 2026, about 5 a working day, after 2,421 in 2025. Belgium as a whole saw 108,068 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes 1.0% of the inflow.

1,7092022
2,1632023
2,2102024
2,4212025
1,0292026 so far

528 of this year's 1,029 are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Tielt2 staff
2Leuven2 staff
3Charleroi2 staff
4Temse2 staff
5Menen2 staff

Sole traders or BV/SRL: how they are organised

Half Belgian law firms work as sole traders, against 32% of all Belgian companies. Two in five are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

Sole traders (eenmanszaak / entreprise individuelle)12,31945%
Partnerships (VOF/SNC and CommV/SComm)6522%
BV/SRL and NV/SA10,57739%
No form on record or other3,80014%

Single-site: 74%
Head offices: 3,495
Branches: 3,662

All Belgian companies: 32% sole traders, 9% partnerships, 28% BV/SRL and NV/SA.

Frequently asked questions

How many lawyers are there in Belgium?

There are 27,348 lawyers and law firms in Belgium in our data, counted on 5 November 2026. That is one in every 87 Belgian companies.

Which is the largest law firm in Belgium?

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in Ixelles, with 143 staff. By revenue Baker & McKenzie in Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode leads with $102.6 million a year.

Which Belgian city has the most lawyers?

Antwerpen, with 1,959, ahead of Ixelles (1,921), Bruxelles (1,566), Gent (1,025) and Uccle (726). Relative to its size, Elsene has the most: 6.1 times the national share.

How many law firms are there in Antwerpen?

1,959, which is 1.8% of all 108,393 Antwerpen companies and 58% above the national share.

How big is a typical law firm?

Small. 99% of the 25,882 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 8 have 50 or more. Most turn over under $100,000 a year.

Are Belgian lawyers sole traders or companies?

Half (12,319) are sole traders, 2% are partnerships and 39% (10,577) are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

How many law firms started in 2026?

1,029 were entered in the Belgian register so far in 2026, after 2,421 in 2025. 528 of them are BV/SRL and NV/SA.

What is the oldest law firm in Belgium?

Cabinet d'Avocats Coudert Ass Int in Ixelles, 1965, followed by Steunvereniging Van De Koninklyke Roeivereniging Sport Nautique Gent in Gent (1966) and Nimal Jacques in Schaerbeek (1969). 0 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers lawyers?

Belgian lawyers are classified under NACE-BEL 2008 code 69101, NACE Rev. 2 code 691. Our platform filters them on NACE-BEL 2008 69101.

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