N° d'entreprise :
Nom
(en entier) : LATITUDE LAW EUROPE
(en abrégé) :
Forme légale : Société à responsabilité limitée
Adresse complète du siège Avenue Fonsny 46 bte 59
 : 1060 Saint-Gilles
Objet de l'acte :
CONSTITUTION
Il résulte d’un acte reçu par Maître Edouard-Jean NAVEZ, notaire résidant à Wavre, associé de la
société à responsabilité limitée dénommée « WATHELET & NAVEZ, Notaires Associés », ayant son
siège à 1300 Wavre, Rue Saint Roch 28, TVA BE 0700.686.428 RPM Brabant wallon, le 23
décembre 2020, ici textuellement reproduit :
A COMPARU :
La société de droit anglais (de type private limited company) LATITUDE LAW Limited, ayant son
siège à Manchester M1 6FQ (Royaume-Uni), Oxford Street, numéro 79, St James Building, 6th
Floor.
Société enregistrée au registre du commerce sous le n°6411962 et inscrite à la Banque Carrefour
des Entreprises sous le numéro BCE bis 0760.460.006.
Société constituée le 29 octobre 2007 et dont les statuts ont été modifiés le 23 août 2017.
(…)
Comparant dont l'identité a été établie au vu du registre national des personnes physiques, ainsi
qu'au vu de son passeport.
Ci-après dénommée « les comparants » ou « les fondateurs », même s’il y en a qu’un.
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I. CONSTITUTION
Les comparants requièrent le notaire soussigné d’acter qu’ils constituent entre eux une société et de
dresser les statuts d’une société à responsabilité limitée dénommée LATITUDE LAW EUROPE,
ayant son siège à 1060 Bruxelles, Avenue Fonsny, numéro 46, boîte 59 (Regus Express – Brussels,
Zuid-Midi Railway Station), aux capitaux propres de départ de vingt mille euros (20.000,00 €).
Les comparants déclarent souscrire les cent (100) actions, en espèces, au prix de deux cents euros
(200,00 €) chacune, comme suit :
- par la société LATITUDE LAW Limited, précitée : à concurrence de cent (100) actions soit pour
vingt mille euros (20.000,00 €).
Soit : cent (100) actions ou l'intégralité des apports.
Les comparants déclarent et affirment que les actions souscrites en numéraire ont été entièrement
libérées par un versement en espèces et que le montant de ces versements, soit vingt mille euros
(20.000,00 €), a été déposé sur un compte spécial numéro BE40 7390 2166 6363 ouvert au nom de
la société en formation auprès de la Banque KBC suivant attestation du 22 décembre 2020 qui
demeurera au dossier des présentes.
La société a par conséquent et dès à présent à sa disposition une somme de vingt mille euros
(20.000,00 €).
II. STATUTS
Les comparants nous ont ensuite déclaré arrêter comme suit les statuts de la société.
Chapter I. Legal form – Name – Office – Object – Duration
Article 1. Name and form
The company has adopted the form of a limited liability company.
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Its name is “LATITUDE LAW EUROPE”.
Article 2. Head office
The head office is located in the Brussels-Capital Region.
The head office may be transferred to any other place in the Brussels-Capital Region by ordinary
resolution of the management body.
The resolution passed by the management body to transfer the head office within the same region
shall only amend the Articles of Association if the precise address of the head office is included
therein. In the latter case, the transfer resolution shall be recorded in a notarial deed.
If the head office is transferred to another region, even without any change of the language regime,
the resolution passed by the management body shall amend the Articles of Association and must be
recorded in a notarial deed.
The resolution to transfer the head office to another linguistic region shall imply a translation of the
Articles of Association and falls within the competence of the General Meeting recorded in a notarial
deed.
 
The company may establish, by ordinary resolution of the management body, administrative offices,
branches, agencies, depots and trading offices in Belgium and abroad.
 
Article 3. Object
The company shall have as its object, in Belgium and abroad, all operations general whatsoever
relating to:
 
 
- the practice of the legal profession of lawyer in conformity with the provisions of the Code of Ethics
of the Lawyer and the regulations, including the internal regulations, of the French Order of the
Lawyers of the Brussels’ Bar,
- including any other activity related to or compatible with the status of a lawyer such as teaching,
publication of articles, books, and,
- incidentally, and in accordance with the ethical rules governing the profession of lawyer, the
development and the operation of programs, interfaces and applications, multimedia communication
means involving, including, but not limited to, IT tools and websites aimed at, and allowing to develop
and adapt the practice of the profession of lawyer to the developments in information and
communication technologies.
 
 
 
In consequence, under the condition of the respect of the ethical rules adopted by the Council of the
French Order of Lawyers of the Brussels’ Bar and Avocats.be (Order of the French and German
speaking bars in Belgium), the company will provide to its clients any services related to its activity
and will take on all the duties. Therefore, it may accomplish any operations that may promote the
achievement of its object, while having at its disposal any means usually employed by private
persons whose occupation it is but, at all events, the company has to comply with all the legal,
ethical, accounting and any rules that govern this activity.
 
 
In accordance with of the requirements of the ethics’ regulations of Lawyers, the company may, in a
general manner, carry out any industrial, economical, commercial, financial, real estate or financial
operations directly or indirectly related to its object or likely to foster directly or indirectly its
development, including the investment of its reserves in movable or immovable assets.
 
 
 
It may, in particular, take interests by way of contribution, merger, subscription, financial intervention
or by any other method, in any company, association or enterprise, in Belgium or abroad, having in
whole or in part, a similar or related object to its own or likely to promote the extension and
development thereof.
The company may take over the management and control, in its capacity as director, liquidator or
otherwise of affiliated companies or subsidiaries.
All the activity of lawyer is devoted to the sole profit of company.
Only the company, with the exclusion of its shareholder (s), may claim fees from its clients. The
company will only be able to distribute the profits through the fees promised for work already done.
 
The shareholder (s) is (are) prohibited from any professional intervention whatsoever in favour of a
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party whose interests are or may be in opposition to those of a client of the company or a member of
it. They also refrain from pleading for a member of the company or for his immediate family. They
undertake to comply with the rules in force on conflicts of interest and incompatibilities.
 
In the event that the performance of certain acts is subject to preconditions for access to the
profession, the company will subordinate its action, with regard to the provision of these acts, to the
fulfilment of these conditions.
Article 4. Duration
The company is incorporated for an indefinite period.
The company may be dissolved by resolution of the General Meeting deliberating in the same
manner as for an amendment to the Articles of Association.
Chapter II. The Company’s Assets
Article 5. Equity
In compensation of the contributions, one hundred (100) shares have been issued.
Each share grants an equal right to the distribution of the profits and the liquidation proceeds.
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CHAPTER V. GENERAL MEETING
Article 20. Holding and convocation
 Every year, at the head office, an ordinary general meeting is held on the first Wednesday of the
month of June, at 16 p.m..
If this day is a public holiday, the meeting is postponed to the next working day. If there is only one
shareholder, it is on this same date that he signs the annual accounts for approval.
Extraordinary general meetings must also be called by the management body and, where applicable,
the auditor, whenever the interests of the company so require or at the request of shareholders
representing one tenth of the number of issued shares. In the latter case, shareholders indicate their
request and the subjects to be included on the agenda. The management body or, where applicable,
the auditor will convene the general meeting within three weeks of the request.
 
The invitations to general meetings contain the agenda. They are made by e-mail sent at least fifteen
days before the meeting to shareholders, directors and, where applicable, holders of registered
convertible bonds, registered subscription rights or registered certificates issued with the
collaboration of the company and auditor. They are made by ordinary mail to persons for whom the
company does not have an e-mail address, on the same day as the sending of electronic notices.
 
 
Anyone may waive the convocation and, in any case, will be considered to have been duly convened
if he is present or represented at the meeting.
 
Article 21. General assembly by written procedure
§1. Shareholders may, within the limits of the law, unanimously take all decisions in writing which fall
within the power of the general meeting, with the exception of those which must be received in an
authentic act.
 
§2. With regard to the dating of the annual meeting, the date of the decision signed by all the
shareholders is deemed to be the statutory date of the annual meeting, unless proven otherwise,
provided that the written decision signed by all the shareholders have reached the company 20 days
before the statutory date. If several copies of the proposed decisions have been sent, the date of
receipt of the last copy is decisive for the date of the decision.
 
The written decision, in several copies or not, is accompanied by a declaration dated and signed by
the management body indicating that the decision signed by all the shareholders has reached the
head office of the company at the latest 20 days before the date. of the annual meeting and that it
bears all the required signatures.
If the last written decision has not been received no later than 20 days preceding the statutory date of
the annual meeting, the management body must convene the general meeting.
§3. With regard to the date of the extraordinary general meeting, the date of the decision signed by
all the shareholders is deemed to be the date on which the decision reached the head office of the
company, unless proven otherwise. If several copies of the proposed decisions have been sent, the
date of receipt of the last copy is decisive.
 
The written decision, included in one or more approved proposals, must be accompanied by a
declaration dated and signed by the management body indicating that the decision signed by all the
shareholders has reached the head office of the company on the date indicated in this declaration
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and that it bears all the required signatures.
The written decision proposal sent should indicate whether all agenda items must be approved as a
whole to reach a valid written decision or whether written approval is sought for each agenda item
separately.
 
 
§4. The written decision proposal sent may determine that the approval must reach the head office of
the company before a specific date in order to be the subject of a valid written decision. If the written
decision approved unanimously has not arrived, in one or more copies, in good time before this date,
the signed approvals will lose all force of law.
 
§5. Members of the management body, the auditor and holders of convertible bonds, subscription
rights or certificates issued with the collaboration of the company may, at their request, take
cognisance of these decisions.
Article 22. Admission to the general meeting
To be admitted to the general meeting and, for shareholders, to exercise the right to vote, a security
holder must meet the following conditions:
- the holder of registered securities must be registered in this capacity in the register of registered
securities relating to his category of securities;
- the rights relating to the securities of the holder of the securities cannot be suspended; if only the
right to vote is suspended; he can still participate in the general meeting without being able to
participate in the vote.
Article 23. Meetings – minutes
 
§ 1. The general meeting is chaired by the director having the most seniority at the Bar or, failing that,
by the present shareholder who holds the most shares or, in the event of parity, by the oldest of
them. The chairman will appoint the secretary who does not have to be a shareholder.
§ 2. The minutes recording the decisions of the general meeting or of the sole shareholder are
entered in a register kept at the head office. They are signed by the members of the office and by the
shareholders present who request it. Copies to be issued to third parties are signed by one or more
members of the management body having the power of representation.
 
The attendance list and any reports, proxies or votes by correspondence are attached to the minutes.
Those who attended or were represented at the general meeting can consult the attendance list.
 
Article 24. Deliberations
§ 1. At the general meeting, each share gives the right to one vote, subject to the legal provisions
governing shares without voting rights.
§2. In the event that the company has only one shareholder, the latter will alone exercise the powers
vested in the general meeting.
§3. Any shareholder may give any other lawyer, shareholder or not, by any means of transmission, a
written proxy to represent him at the meeting and vote in his stead.
 
A proxy granted remains valid for each subsequent general meeting to the extent that the same items
of the agenda are dealt with there, unless the company is informed of a transfer of the shares
concerned.
 
A shareholder who cannot be present also has the option of voting in writing before the general
meeting. This written vote must be sent to the company no later than the day before the day of the
general meeting.
A written vote remains valid for each subsequent general meeting insofar as the same items of the
agenda are dealt with there, unless the company is informed of a disposal of the shares concerned.
 
A proxy can only be given to a person having the capacity of lawyer.
 
§ 4. Any meeting can only deliberate on the proposals appearing on the agenda, unless all the
persons to be convened are present or represented, and, in the latter case, if the proxies expressly
mention it.
 
§ 5. Except in the cases provided for by law or these Articles of Association, decisions are taken by
majority vote, regardless of the number of securities represented at the general meeting.
Article 25. Extension
Any general meeting, ordinary or extraordinary, may be delayed, immediately, to three weeks at most
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by the management body. Unless the general meeting decides otherwise, this extension does not
override other decisions taken. The second assembly will deliberate on the same agenda and will
take a final decision.
 
Article 26. Powers of the general meeting
The general meeting of shareholders exercises the powers conferred on it by the Code des sociétés
et des associations.
CHAPTER VI. FINANCIAL YEAR – ALLOCATION – RESERVES
Article 27. Financial year
The financial year begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st of each year.
On the latter date, the corporate records are drawn up and the management body draws up an
inventory and draws up the annual accounts which, after approval by the meeting, it ensures the
publication, in accordance with the law.
Article 28. Distribution – reservations
 The net annual profit will receive the allocation given to it by the general meeting, acting on a
proposal from the management body, it being however noted that each share confers an equal right
in the distribution of profits.
 
CHAPTER VII. DISSOLUTION – LIQUIDATION
Article 29. Dissolution
The company can be dissolved at any time, by decision of the general meeting deliberating in the
forms provided for amendments to the Articles of Association.
Article 30. Liquidators
In the event of the dissolution of the company, for whatever reason and at any time, the director(s) in
office are appointed as liquidator(s) under these statutes if no other liquidator has been appointed,
without prejudice to the option of the general meeting to appoint one or more liquidators and to
determine their powers and emoluments.
 
 
The designated liquidator(s) have to be lawyer(s).
Article 31. Breakdown of net assets
After clearance of all debts, charges and liquidation costs or after deposit of the amounts necessary
for this purpose and, in the event of the existence of shares not fully paid up, after re-establishment
of equality between all the shares or by calls for additional funds charged to insufficiently paid-up
shares, or by prior distributions in favour of paid-up shares in a greater proportion, the net assets are
distributed among all the shareholders in proportion to their shares and the assets retained are
returned to them to be shared in the same proportion.
 
CHAPTER VIII. MISCELLANEOUS
Article 32. Election of domicile
For the execution of the Articles of Association, any shareholder, director, auditor, liquidator or bearer
of obligations domiciled abroad elects domicile at the head office where all communications,
summons, subpoenas, notifications can be validly made to him if he has not chosen another domicile
in Belgium vis-à-vis the company.
Article 33. General law
The provisions of the Code des sociétés et des associations from which it is not lawfully derogated
are deemed to be included in these Articles of Association and the clauses contrary to the mandatory
provisions of the Code des sociétés et des associations are deemed unwritten.
Article 34. Discrepancies
In the event of a discrepancy between the French version and the English version of these statutes,
the French version of the statutes shall prevail.
Article 35. Arbitration clause
Any dispute relating to the validity, interpretation or execution of these Articles of Association, as well
as any dispute between the shareholders, will be decided as a last resort by one or three arbitrators
appointed by the president of the French Bar Association of the Brussels’ Bar.
 
The President of the French Bar Association of the Brussels’ Bar has, at all times, access to all the
present Articles of Association, agreements, amendments and documents that organise the
company, including the shares register and corporate documents.
Article 36. Ethical obligations of the legal profession
 
The shareholder(s) undertake(s) to comply with the ethical rules applicable to lawyers registered with
the French Order of Lawyers of the Brussels’ Bar, in particular articles 4.14 to 4.25 and 4.43 to 4.49
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of the Code of ethics and 4.3.1 of the internal rules. If there are lawyers from other bars among the
shareholder(s), it is necessary to ensure that their rules are respected. If there is a discrepancy, the
stricter rule will apply.
Article 37. Insurance
The shareholder in charge of a dossier is jointly bound by the company's commitments to the client.
The civil professional responsibility of the company as such has to be insured independently to the
one of the shareholder(s).
III. DISPOSITIONS FINALES ET/OU TRANSITOIRES
Les comparants constatent que par l'adoption des statuts qui précèdent, la société est définitivement
constituée et qu'ils en forment l'assemblée générale, laquelle à l'unanimité des voix prend les
décisions suivantes qui ne deviendront effectives qu’à dater du dépôt au greffe d’une expédition de l’
acte constitutif, conformément à la loi :
1- Premier exercice social et première assemblée générale ordinaire :
Le premier exercice social débutera le jour du dépôt au greffe d’une expédition du présent acte et
finira le 31 décembre 2021.
La première assemblée générale ordinaire aura donc lieu le premier mercredi du mois de juin de l’
année 2022.
2- Adresse du siège :
L’adresse du siège est située à 1060 Bruxelles, Avenue Fonsny, numéro 46, boîte 59 (Regus
Express – Brussels, Zuid-Midi Railway Station).
3- Site internet et adresse électronique :
Le site internet de la société est www.latitudelaw.com.
L’adresse électronique de la société est gmcindoe@latitudelaw.com.
Toute communication vers cette adresse par les actionnaires, les titulaires de titres émis par la
société et les titulaires de certificats émis avec la collaboration de la société est réputée être
intervenue valablement.
4- Administrateur non statutaire :
L’assemblée décide de fixer le nombre d’administrateurs à 1.
Est appelé à la fonction d’administrateur non statutaire pour une durée illimitée :
- Monsieur McINDOE Gary, née à Manchester (Royaume-Uni), le 13 juillet 1966 (...), domicilié à M33
5BG, Sale (Cheshire) (Royaume Uni), Cecil Avenue, numéro 81, (...)
L’administrateur fait élection de domicile au siège de la société pour toutes les affaires relatives à l’
exercice de ce mandat.
5- Pouvoir de signature :
Le pouvoir de signature des administrateurs sera individuel pour tous actes et/ou engagements de la
société.
6- Rémunération :
Le mandat d’administrateur sera gratuit sauf décision contraire de l’assemblée générale.
7- Commissaire :
Compte tenu des critères légaux, les comparants décident de ne pas procéder actuellement à la
nomination d’un commissaire.
8- Représentant permanent :
Si d’aventure la société devait être désignée administrateur d’une autre personne morale, le
comparant décide que Monsieur McINDOE Gary, prénommé, exercera la fonction de représentant
permanent de la société, dans l’exercice de ce mandat.
9- Reprise des engagements pris au nom de la société en formation
Tous les engagements ainsi que les obligations qui en résultent, et toutes les activités entreprises
depuis le 1er juin 2020 par l’un ou l’autre des comparants au nom et pour compte de la société en
formation sont repris par la société présentement constituée, par décision de l’organe d’
administration qui sortira ses effets à compter de l’acquisition par la société de sa personnalité
juridique.
10- Pouvoirs
1° Monsieur Gary McINDOE, prénommé ;
2° Monsieur Edouard-Jean Navez, notaire, dont l’étude est établie Rue Saint Roch 28 à 1300 Wavre
;
3° Monsieur Arnaud HOUET et/ou Monsieur Olivier MARESCHAL, avocats, dont le cabinet est établi
Avenue Louise 326/26 à 1050 Bruxelles ou ;
4° toute autre personne désignée par eux, sont désignés en qualité de mandataires ad hoc de la
société, afin de disposer des fonds, de signer tous documents et de procéder aux formalités de
publication légales relatives au présent acte constitutif et aux résolutions de l’assemblée générale
extraordinaire précitée et, à cette fin, pour signer tous documents, y compris les formulaires I et II,
aux formalités requises auprès de l’administration de la tva ou en vue de l'inscription à la Banque
carrefour des Entreprises.
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Aux effets ci-dessus, les mandataires ad hoc auront le pouvoir de prendre tous engagements au nom
de la société, faire telles déclarations qu'il y aura lieu, signer tous documents et en général faire tout
ce qui sera utile ou nécessaire pour l'exécution du mandat qui leur a été confié.
RÉUNION DE L’ORGANE D’ADMINISTRATION
Immédiatement après l'assemblée générale précitée, l’organe d’administration se réunit et rend les
décisions suivantes qui ne deviendront effectives qu’à dater du dépôt au greffe d’une expédition de l’
acte constitutif, conformément à la loi :
1-         Désignation d’un délégué à la gestion journalière
Le conseil d’administration désigne Monsieur McINDOE Gary, né à Manchester (Royaume-Uni), le
13 juillet 1966 (…), domicilié à MM33 5BG, Sale (Cheshire) (Royaume Uni), Cecil Avenue, numéro
81, en qualité de délégué à la gestion journalière, conformément à l’article 5:79 du Code des
sociétés et des associations, (…).
Le délégué à la gestion journalière pourra agir seul. Sa fonction sera exercée à titre gratuit.
La gestion journalière comprend aussi bien les actes et les décisions qui n'excèdent pas les besoins
de la vie quotidienne de la société que les actes et les décisions qui, soit en raison de leur intérêt
mineur qu'ils représentent soit en raison de leur caractère urgent, ne justifient pas l'intervention du
conseil d'administration.
2-         Pouvoirs
1° Monsieur Gary McINDOE, prénommé,
2° Monsieur Edouard-Jean Navez, notaire, dont l’étude est établie Rue Saint Roch 28 à 1300 Wavre,
3° Monsieur Arnaud HOUET et/ou Monsieur Olivier MARESCHAL, avocats, dont le cabinet est établi
Avenue Louise 326/26 à 1050 Bruxelles ou 4° toute autre personne désignée par eux, sont désignés
en qualité de mandataires ad hoc de la société, afin de de signer tous documents et de procéder aux
formalités de publication légales relatives à la réunion du conseil d’administration précitée et, à cette
fin, pour signer tous documents, y compris les formulaires I et II, aux formalités requises auprès de
toutes administration (tva, SPF Finances, etc.) ou en vue de l'inscription à la Banque carrefour des
Entreprises.
Aux effets ci-dessus, les mandataires ad hoc auront le pouvoir de prendre tous engagements au nom
de la société, faire telles déclarations qu'il y aura lieu, signer tous documents et en général faire tout
ce qui sera utile ou nécessaire pour l'exécution du mandat qui leur a été confié.
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Pour extrait conforme
Le notaire Edouard-Jean Navez
Déposé en même temps l’expédition de l’acte et les statuts coordonnés.