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Board fully replaced NBB
No director from three years ago is still active according to annual account 2025.
Financials
Financial year 2025
COMMIT ADVOCATEN from Gent, company number BE0678529747, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € 505,657 after tax. For that financial year COMMIT ADVOCATEN recorded a gross margin of € 584,630 and equity of € 129,218. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € 449,604 to € 505,657. Profitable, and profit is growing. The buffer shrank hard: equity is 53 % below last year. Debts are under control. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on March 27, 2026.
€ 129,218
▼ 53% vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ 505,657
▲ 12% vs 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 234,312
▲ 8% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 690,500 paid out
More than the year’s profit went to the shareholders; reserves fell.
People and assets in 2025
1.4
▲ 0.3 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 63,434
▲ 7% vs 2024
€ 45,300 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.
€ 18,638
▲ 50% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
None
No bank loans on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 69,481
▲ 17% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 18,038
▼ 80% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | € 292,154 | € 388,480 | € 639,559 | € 584,630 | ▼ 9% |
| Profit after taxes | € 171,309 | € 272,548 | € 449,604 | € 505,657 | ▲ 12% |
| Equity | € 406,561 | € 283,108 | € 272,712 | € 129,218 | ▼ 53% |
| Total debts | € 116,849 | € 417,206 | € 681,326 | € 641,802 | ▼ 6% |
| Cash | € 132,662 | € 326,596 | € 216,419 | € 234,312 | ▲ 8% |
| Retained profit | € 366,161 | € 242,708 | € 232,312 | € 47,469 | ▼ 80% |
| Dividend | € 142,300 | € 396,000 | € 460,000 | € 690,500 | ▲ 50% |
| Balance sheet total | € 523,409 | € 700,314 | € 954,038 | € 771,020 | ▼ 19% |
| Employees (FTE) | 1.3 | 1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | ▲ 0.3 |
Key figures of COMMIT 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 March 2027.
What happened to COMMIT ADVOCATEN?
What happened at COMMIT 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 € 505,657 (▲ 12% vs 2024). Source: NBB ↗
- ADVOCAAT STEFANIE DE CLEEN BV became a director. NBB
- ADVOCATENKANTOOR KAREL THEUNS BV became a director. NBB
- ADVOCAAT JORIS DE KEERSMAEKER BV became a director. NBB
- Joris DE KEERSMAEKER stepped down as director. NBB
- New establishment in Gent. KBO
- Joris DE KEERSMAEKER became a director. NBB
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 171,309 profit in 2022 to € 505,657 profit in 2025.
Paid € 227,556 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2025, with € 505,657 profit.
On average € 417,600 of value added per employee in 2025.
Management
Behind COMMIT ADVOCATEN are Pieter SICHIEN, ADVOCAAT STEFANIE DE CLEEN BV, ADVOCATENKANTOOR SABINE VANOVERBEKE BV, ADVOCATENKANTOOR KAREL THEUNS BV and ADVOCAAT JORIS DE KEERSMAEKER BV.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Pieter SICHIEN
Director
Director · represented by Stefanie DE CLEEN
since 2025
ADVOCATENKANTOOR SABINE VANOVERBEKE BV
Managing director · represented by Sabine VANOVERBEKE
ADVOCATENKANTOOR KAREL THEUNS BV
Director · represented by Karel THEUNS
since 2025
ADVOCAAT JORIS DE KEERSMAEKER BV
Director · represented by Joris DE KEERSMAEKER
since 2025
Joris DE KEERSMAEKER
Director
since 2017 · until 2025
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Kortrijksesteenweg 1007
9000 Gent
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Details
- Company number
- 0678.529.747
- VAT number
- BE 0678.529.747
- Registered office
- Kortrijksesteenweg 1007, 9000 Gent
- Names & denominations
- COMMIT ADVOCATEN
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 12 July 2017
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