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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 4.1 to 3.5.
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Busy address KBO
50 other companies have their registered office at the same address; threshold 10.
Financials
Financial year 2025
Arcas Advocaten from Brussel, company number BE0644845409, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 3.4 million after tax. For that financial year Arcas Advocaten recorded a gross margin of € 3.7 million and equity of € 297,811. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 4.2 million to € 3.4 million. The company is profitable. The buffer is growing. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on June 23, 2026.
€ 297,811
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 3.4 million
▼ 20% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 1.1 million
▲ 42% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 3.4 million paid out
100 % of the profit went to the shareholders, the rest stayed in the company.
People and assets in 2025
3.5
▼ 0.1 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 308,611
▼ 4% vs 2024
€ 88,200 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 31,301
▲ 68% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 159,109
▲ 6% vs 2024
€ 38,908 is repaid this year. At this pace the long-term loan is gone in ≈ 4 years.
€ 1.1 million
▲ € 893,204 vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 30,568
▼ 25% vs 2024
Wages, holiday pay and social contributions still to pay. No outstanding taxes.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 3,441,533 | € 3,247,693 | € 4,641,738 | € 3,713,817 | ▼ 20% |
| Profit after taxes | € 3,055,531 | € 2,816,900 | € 4,219,478 | € 3,355,210 | ▼ 20% |
| Equity | € 294,695 | € 295,151 | € 297,726 | € 297,811 | |
| Total debts | € 3,677,950 | € 3,736,649 | € 5,117,280 | € 4,897,729 | ▼ 4% |
| Cash | € 904,950 | € 386,535 | € 772,664 | € 1,097,001 | ▲ 42% |
| Land & buildings | - | - | € 175,590 | € 249,989 | ▲ 42% |
| Retained profit | € 32,028 | € 32,484 | € 35,059 | € 35,144 | |
| Dividend | € 3,055,043 | € 2,816,443 | € 4,216,904 | € 3,355,125 | ▼ 20% |
| Bank debt | € 686 | € 171 | € 149,480 | € 159,109 | ▲ 6% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,972,645 | € 4,031,800 | € 5,415,006 | € 5,195,540 | ▼ 4% |
| Employees (FTE) | 3.7 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | ▼ 0.1 |
Key figures of Arcas Advocaten, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to Arcas Advocaten?
What happened at Arcas Advocaten in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: profit of € 3.4 million (▼ 20% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- Jellina Buelens BV became a director. NBB
- Advocatenkantoor Joost Verlinden BV became a director. NBB
- Libotte Dirk BV became a director. NBB
- Advocaat Liesbeth Lafaut BV became a director. NBB
- Advocaat Joost Bosquet BV became a director. NBB
- Karel Schulpen BV became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Edegem. KBO
In short
From € 3.1 million profit in 2022 to € 3.4 million profit in 2025.
Paid € 17,689 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2024, with € 4.2 million profit.
On average € 1.1 million of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
The stake of Advocaat Joost Bosquet, KAREL SCHULPEN, Advocatenkantoor Joost Verlinden comes from that shareholder’s own annual accounts; small companies do not report their shareholders themselves.
Arcas AdvocatenBehind Arcas Advocaten are BJEV BV, Jellina Buelens BV, Van Doninck Jachin BV, Advocaat Joost Bosquet BV, Libotte Dirk BV and Advocaat Liesbeth Lafaut BV. The shares are held by Advocaat Joost Bosquet (12.5%), KAREL SCHULPEN (12.5%) and Advocatenkantoor Joost Verlinden (12.5%).
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Director · represented by Volders Bart
since 2015
Director · represented by Buelens Jellina
since 2025
Director · represented by Van Doninck Jachin
since 2015
Director · represented by Bosquet Joost
since 2016
Director · represented by Libotte Dirk
since 2018
Director · represented by Lafaut Liesbeth
since 2017
Advocatenkantoor Joost Verlinden BV
Director · represented by Verlinden Joost
since 2018
Director · represented by Schulpen Karel
since 2016
Shareholders
Participations
No participations in other companies reported.
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Joseph Stevensstraat 7
1000 Brussel
Mechelsesteenweg 262
2650 Edegem
Active since 1 September 2016
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Details
- Company number
- 0644.845.409
- VAT number
- BE 0644.845.409
- Registered office
- Joseph Stevensstraat 7, 1000 Brussel
- Names & denominations
- Arcas Advocaten · Arcas
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 23 December 2015
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 27 Mar 2026
- Activities · NACE
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