Sophie Jacmain
Expertise
She is often appointed by the courts as an administrator to help restructure companies in financial difficulty.
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What others say
Sophie has been listed in various editions of legal directories as a leading individual in the fields of Insolvency & Restructuring and Dispute Resolution.
- The Legal 500 2025:
'Sophie Jacmain has an impressive experience in litigation files and perfectly knows how the Belgian legal environment works in order to anticipate the coming steps of your litigation. Her team is perfectly trained to support her on all various aspects of any litigation files.'
'Sophie Jacmain's broad experience helps to solve any kind of problems and, most of the time, avoid litigation. This experience is very pragmatic and results-driven, and thus far from purely theoretical.'
'Sophie Jacmain has an impressive experience in restructuring files, with very practical knowledge and not only the legal/theoretical knowledge that all lawyers should have.'
'As Sophie Jacmain also has a vast experience in litigation files, she can always anticipate what you need to do to preserve your company from a possible litigation.'
- Chambers Europe 2025:
'Sophie Jacmain knows our business very well. She knows what to do for us and explains the directions well. She takes the burden away from us.'
'Sophie Jacmain was always there and always found time for us. She made a very good impression and managed to explain everything in a concise and clear way.'
'Sophie Jacmain offers great support and has good initiative.'
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Ancillary functions
Sophie is a lecturer in restructuring and insolvency at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and at the Ateliers des FUCaM (ATMS) – UCLouvain FUCaM Mons (post graduate certificate for crisis managers). Her expertise in insolvency, restructuring and secured transactions is also evidenced by her involvement in the reform of the Belgian Insolvency Code (which entered into force in May 2018) as an expert for the Minister of Justice. She sits on the steering committee of the Belgian Turnaround Association (BeTA).
Furthermore, she has been appointed to various editorial boards over the years, such as the Revue de droit Commercial Belge, Privilèges et Hypothèques and Revue Pratique des Sociétés. She is a regular speaker at seminars on both insolvency and litigation and is the author of several publications in these areas.