About Aeacus Crypto Lawyers
practical experience
With more than 175 crypto investors assisted, dozens of successful off-ramps to banks, and ongoing contacts with local tax offices, the Belgian Special Tax Inspectorate (BBI), the Belgian Ruling Commission, and the Regularization Contact Point, Aeacus has extensive practical experience in complex crypto matters. Aeacus's practice can be divided into two main pillars.
The first pillar concerns advisory services and tax analysis. Crypto holdings, crypto gains, and crypto income are analyzed from legal, technical, and tax perspectives to ensure correct tax treatment, reporting, or regularization, or to facilitate the off-ramping of cryptoassets to a Belgian bank account. This practice is aimed at proactively bringing clients into compliance with their tax obligations. Within Aeacus, this advisory practice is led primarily by Senne Verholle.
The second pillar concerns disputes, proceedings, and defence matters. This includes tax audits, financial investigations into suspected money laundering or tax fraud, blocked bank funds, seizures of cryptoassets or funds, cases involving the Central Office for Seizure and Confiscation (COSC), and court proceedings. In this area, Aeacus has extensive experience with investigations by the police, local tax offices, and the Belgian Special Tax Inspectorate (BBI), including cases involving clients who transferred substantial crypto gains to their bank accounts and triggered alerts, miners, traders, and clients whose accounts or assets were blocked or seized. Within Aeacus, this litigation and defence practice is led primarily by Christophe Romero.
Aeacus is described in Chambers described as "the only law firm in Belgium fully dedicated to crypto tax and blockchain law. Originally established as a tax boutique, the Brussels-based firm has progressively expanded its expertise to cover all legal and regulatory aspects of the blockchain ecosystem. Aeacus is widely recognised as a go-to firm in Belgium for blockchain and crypto tax matters and is frequently sought after for complex advisory, compliance and procedural work. The firm serves a diverse range of clients across the crypto ecosystem, from individual investors and active traders to mid-sized and large companies, including blockchain start-ups, investment funds, DeFi projects and institutional actors. Aeacus has built expertise across tax, AML, MiCA compliance, financial regulation and structuring, advising private and corporate clients on legal defence and strategic tax planning. The firm is regularly consulted by public institutions, financial institutions and leading professional advisory networks on complex crypto-related tax and regulatory matters"
Aeacus & Crypto
Aeacus Lawyers is a Belgian law firm dedicated exclusively to the tax and legal aspects of cryptoassets, blockchain, and digital wealth in all their forms. We assist individuals, entrepreneurs, and companies with complex matters where traditional tax and legal frameworks intersect with new technologies.
The name Aeacus, derived from Greek mythology, symbolizes justice and wisdom. These values guide our practice in a rapidly evolving and legally challenging field where legal certainty is often limited and the consequences of an incorrect approach can be significant.
Expertise
The lawyers at Aeacus Crypto Lawyers have more than twenty years of combined experience in tax law and financial regulation. Originally established as a tax boutique, Aeacus has gradually developed an advanced specialization in every legal, tax, and financial-regulatory aspect of cryptoassets, blockchain technology, and digital wealth.
That expertise includes tax classifications and analyses, tax returns, audits, tax proceedings, regularizations, criminal tax law, AML/KYC, dealings with banks and financial institutions concerning frozen or blocked funds, crypto-to-fiat off-ramps, and cases involving exchanges, local tax offices, the Belgian Special Tax Inspectorate (BBI), police services, or other authorities.
Drawing on that practical experience, Aeacus's lawyers regularly publish in the specialist press, including with chambers, Chambers and are consulted by newsrooms for commentary on current crypto-related topics.
the team behind Aeacus
Christophe Romero
Christophe has developed an in-depth specialization in crypto taxation and assists individuals and companies with complex legal and tax matters concerning cryptoassets and digital wealth. He began his career at De Broeck Van Laere & Partners and subsequently joined the tax law firm Tiberghien before establishing his own law firm.
Christophe also has extensive experience in crypto-related tax proceedings and complex matters requiring consultation with the tax authorities, banks, or other institutions. He assists clients in dealings with local tax inspectors, the Belgian Special Tax Inspectorate (BBI), the Belgian Ruling Commission, and the Regularization Contact Point. He also guides banking acceptance processes in consultation with banks, private bankers, and compliance teams.
Christophe also has extensive experience in financial law and criminal tax law, assisting both individuals and companies in criminal proceedings involving tax fraud and money laundering. He holds the SUPRALAT certificate and is therefore trained to provide specialized legal assistance during police interviews and questioning by an investigating judge.
Christophe also regularly gives seminars on tax topics and frequently appears in the specialist and general press, including in HLN, Investment Officer and chambers.
Christophe is described in Chambers described as "widely recognised as a leading practitioner in Belgium and is frequently sought after for tax procedures and regularisations. Christophe has extensive experience in tax audits before the Belgian Special Tax Inspectorate (BBI/ISI) and local tax authorities, as well as in proceedings before Belgian courts."
Master of Laws (KU Leuven)
Master in Taxation (KU Leuven)
Member of the Dutch-speaking Bar of Brussels
Member of the Bar of Leuven
Member of the Belgian Association of Tax Lawyers (BATL)
Senne Verholle
Senne gained his professional experience in tax law at the tax law firm Tiberghien before establishing his own law firm.
Senne has a pronounced specialization in crypto taxation and focuses within Aeacus primarily on advisory work, tax classification, and the technical analysis of cryptoassets, blockchain transactions, and digital wealth. He advises individuals, entrepreneurs, and companies on whether crypto income qualifies as normal management, miscellaneous income, or professional income, and on the tax treatment of staking, mining, DeFi, and on-chain and off-chain transactions.
Thanks to his in-depth knowledge of blockchain technology, financial law, and crypto ecosystems, Senne can analyze complex transactions and yield mechanisms from legal, technical, and tax perspectives. This crypto-native expertise enables him to assess the economic reality behind transactions correctly and arrive at a well-founded legal and tax classification.
Senne also assists clients with compliance matters, banking relationships, and the impact of new regulations such as DAC8 and MiCAR.
In that context, Senne also conducts forensic analyses of crypto transactions, mapping transactions, wallets, capital gains, and income streams using specialized software such as Koinly, CoinTracking, and Summ.
Senne regularly speaks at seminars on the tax and legal aspects of cryptoassets and digital wealth. He has contributed to tax reference works, including F. Werdefroy and earlier editions of the Tiberghien Handbook, and shares his expertise in the specialist press through publications in chambers, De Tijd and Investment Officer.
Senne is described in Chambers described as "widely recognised as a leading practitioner in Belgium in crypto tax advisory and is frequently sought after for complex transaction analysis, portfolio assessments, blockchain forensics and corporate structuring."
SUPRALAT certificate.
Master of Laws (Ghent University)
Master in Taxation (University of Antwerp)
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