Benoît Lemal

Banking and Finance Law
Criminal law and Business Criminal Law

Benoît Lemal holds a law degree from UCL (magna cum laude, 1993) and an LLM in European law from the University of Leyden (1994).

He is a member of the Brussels Bar since 1995 and joined the law firm Sybarius in 2014 as a partner.

His practice focuses mainly on criminal law and the law of criminal procedure: assisting defendants and civil parties at all stages of the proceedings (hearing, indictment, Chambers of instruction Court of appeal, Assize Court).

Registered on the list of mandatories to represent companies before criminal courts, he regularly intervenes in white-collar crime proceedings.

Benoît also has extensive expertise in banking law (denunciation of loans, recovery proceedings, execution seizures, release of funds seized following an embargo, etc.), advising several leading banking institutions.

Benoît is also very much invested in the Brussels Bar, having been President of the Conférence du Jeune Barreau, a member of the Bar Council and a lecturer at the Bar Training School.

Professional activities

  • Holder of a training certificate in criminal cassation procedure (article 425§ 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure), since 1 February 2017.
  • Member of the Probation Commission at the Brussels Court of First Instance (2003 – 2008)
  • Registered on the list of mandatories to represent legal entities before criminal courts since 2007 (article 5 of the Criminal Code).
  • Member of the Criminal Conviction Review Commission since January 2021.
  • Member of the O.B.F.G. Criminal Law Committee (2017-2019).
  • Professor of criminal procedure at the Brussels Bar Training School since 2017.

INVESTMENT iN THE BRUSSELS BAR :

  • Member of the Conseil de l’Ordre français des Avocats au Barreau de Bruxelles from 2016 to 2019 (Director of Training, in charge of searches, member of the ethics committee)
  • Commissioner of the Brussels Young Bar Conference (2000 – 2002)
  • President of the Brussels Young Bar Conference (2014-2015)
  • Assessor at the Legal Aid Office (2003-2012)
  • Member of the O.B.F.G. Administrative Law Committee (2017-2019)
  • Member of the O.B.F.G. Criminal Law Committee (2017-2019)
  • Professor of ethics at the Brussels Bar School (2018-2022)

Sybarius provides support for economic players (multinationals, SMEs, business owners and public entities), located in Belgium and abroad, at all stages of development of their activities.