Setting up your company

The partner of choice in your project, our mission is to accompany you at every stage in the process of creating your own business. Fidelium listens to your ideas, assesses their viability and builds the project with you.

Our firm will help you throughout the different stages in this creation process:

- Project analysis: evaluation of the relevance and feasibility of your project
- Financial plan development: assistance with development of the obligatory financial plan
- Choice of legal form: research into the form of company best suited to your project
- Validation of draft statutes: examination of the statutes which correspond to the exact nature of your project
- Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (BCE) and access to the profession: help registering your company with the BCE and accompanying you in the formalities of access to the profession
- VAT registration: completion of the VAT registration request
- Affiliation to a social security office: help with the formalities of affiliating your company and its representatives to a social security office
- Search for funding and government grants: compiling an application to be granted a bank loan; research into and application for subsidies and regional and federal allowances

Becoming self-employed

‘Going it alone’ means setting up your own individual business. By taking this step, the entrepreneur becomes self-employed, subject to the social security status of independent workers.

This is a professional activity that can be exercised either as a main or secondary activity.Fidelium helps you measure up such a change and keeps you informed about the conditions enabling you to exercise your planned activity.
Furthermore, our firm will support you in each and every procedure to be followed.

Please find listed below some of the formalities prior to embarking upon your project:

- Registration as a ‘company’ at the BCE
- Registration at the VAT Inspection Office
- Obligatory affiliation to a social security office
- Opening a professional bank account

All individuals bearing the quality of self-employed and resident in Belgium should ensure that their accounts are kept in order in a manner that is appropriate to the nature and extent of the activity being undertaken.
They should undertake to submit an annual tax return.

Transfer of businesses

It is essential to have personalised, professional support during operations that involve the takeover, transfer or succession of a business.
Fidelium offers its skills and experience to carry out a financial analysis of the transaction and support in the negotiation process.

Fidelium is at your service to perform, amongst others, the following tasks:

- Optimisation of the conditions of acquisition or sale
- Assistance during negotiations and the final transaction
- Coordination with a legal advisor
- Analysis of the financing of operations