TEAM
The Ethics & Compliance team is led by its founding partner, Mr. Michael Fernandez-Bertier.
TEAM
The Ethics & Compliance team is led by its founding partner, Mr. Michael Fernandez-Bertier.
Michael Fernandez-Bertier is a senior expert in ethics, compliance and white-collar crime, a member of the New York bar and a former attorney-at-law at the Brussels bar, and a University lecturer. He is also a board member of Transparency International Belgium.
Michael specializes in ethics, legal and regulatory compliance, with a particular emphasis on financial crime prevention compliance and white-collar crime.
Prior to founding Ethics & Compliance, Michael worked as a lawyer in the white-collar crime practice of leading global and local law firms (Allen & Overy and Hirsch & Vanhaelst) and acted as Director in a boutique compliance firm.
Michael is also a lecturer in the Tax Management Executive Master Program at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, in the UCLouvain-ULB-ULiège interuniversity Certificate in White Collar Crime and in the UCLouvain-USL-B Certificate in (Re)inventing Your Compliance Programme.
Among other scientific activities, he is a member of the editorial board of the Belgian Criminal Law and Criminology Review. (Revue de droit pénal et de criminologie), the European Journal on Compliance and Integrity. He is also a former member of the Belgian Business Criminal Law Review (Droit pénal de l’entreprise) and the former editorial co-director of the Business Criminal Law Manuals (Manuels de droit pénal de l’entreprise).
Michael is member of the CRID&P, CRIDES (UCLouvain) and GREPEC (USL-B) research groups and a PhD candidate in Law at Université catholique de Louvain.
He regularly speaks at conferences and seminars and regularly publishes in specialised press, law journals and manuscripts in Belgium and abroad, with over 100 conferences and publications to date (list available upon request).
