Philippe De Prez

Practice Areas

Philippe De Prez is a Financial Services Regulatory lawyer with a strong interest in the FinTech industry. He is co-heading the firm’s Financial Services and Digital Finance team and fluent in English, Dutch and French.

He assists on a daily basis domestic and foreign credit and financial institutions, investment firms, payment service providers, e-money issuers, lenders, insurers, crypto platforms, financial intermediaries, public authorities, crowdfunding platforms, issuers of public offers, technical services providers and investors in the tech and financial services industry.

Philippe focusses on advisory and contractual work and is an expert in assisting foreign entities on their entry into the Belgian and European market. He has a broad experience in working with the competent financial supervisors and helps clients with their license applications, regulatory queries of all kinds, compliance checks, legal assessment of client journeys, the launch of new products and services or in the framework of audits.

Next to his core business in financial services regulation, Philippe has extensive knowledge on connected areas of law such as anti-money laundering, data protection, electronic signatures, outsourcing contracts, marketing conduct of business rules and e-commerce.

He has a keen interest in new technologies both inside and outside the financial world and co-develops the video games practice group of Simont Braun.