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 the founding partner of Ethics & Compliance consulting firm.
He is also a member of the New York bar and a former attorney-at-law at the Brussels.
Michael is a senior expert in ethics, compliance, and white collar crime, with a particular focus 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.
He regularly speaks at conferences and trainings and regularly publishes in specialised press, law journals and manuscripts in Belgium and abroad (list available upon request).
Among other scientific activities, Michael has acted as editorial co-director of the Business Criminal Law Manuals and as a member of the editorial board of several law reviews (including the Belgian Criminal Law and Criminology Review, the Belgian Business Criminal Law Review and the European Journal on Compliance and Integrity).
Michael was further a lecturer at Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, UCLouvain and Université Saint-Louis.
He also served a full term as board member of Transparency International Belgium.
