Strelia

What Strelia does

Strelia is a Belgian-headquartered business law firm with offices in Brussels and Luxembourg, providing legal advisory services to Belgian and international corporate clients across thirteen practice areas including Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance, Dispute Resolution, Commercial Law, Tax, Restructuring & Insolvency, Employment & Benefits, Competition & Regulatory (including Foreign Investment), Real Estate & Administrative Law, and IP/Technology/Data. Founded in 2013 with the Luxembourg office established in 2017, the firm operates as a private partnership-structured entity (Strelia SRL in Belgium, BCE 0501.600.559; Strelia SARL in Luxembourg, RCS B216892) with 51-100 employees and a partner roster of approximately seventeen Legal 500-ranked individuals.

The firm generates revenue through time-based professional services billing: fees are calculated as hours worked multiplied by annually set hourly rates, with general office expenses charged as a percentage of fees, billed monthly with 30-day payment terms. Strelia serves enterprise clients across aviation (Air Belgium), retail, financial services, fund administration (IQ-EQ), private equity, distressed corporates, and non-profits. Notable mandates include securing €4.8 million in state aid damages for Air Belgium before the European Commission, and court-appointed administrator roles in high-profile Belgian insolvencies including Sabena, Photo Hall Multimedia and Flamant Group.

Strelia's go-to-market relies on thought leadership (regular legal publications and newsflashes), partner-led direct engagement, sustained participation in professional associations (INSOL Europe, IBA, ABA, ECTA), and top-tier rankings in legal directories including Legal 500, Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, Leaders League and IFLR1000. The firm self-describes as delivering 'standards of international firms' while maintaining 'commitment, flexibility, responsiveness and cost-effectiveness' of a boutique, and operates cross-border by partnering with market-leading foreign law firms for matters outside Belgium and Luxembourg. The firm is independently owned with no external investors, parent company or private equity backing disclosed.

Name

Strelia

Legal name

Strelia SRL / Strelia SARL

Website

https://strelia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Strelia is an independent Belgian business law firm with offices in Brussels and Luxembourg, advising Belgian and international corporate clients across thirteen practice areas including M&A, banking & finance, dispute resolution, competition, restructuring, real estate, and IP/technology, with 51-100 employees and top-tier rankings in Legal 500 and Chambers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brussels

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Legal Services - Professional Fees: Fees calculated based on hours worked multiplied by annual hourly rates set by Strelia. General office expenses (postage, telephone, fax, photocopies, etc.) are charged as a percentage of fees. Services are billed monthly with payment due within 30 days.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Strelia is a business law firm providing legal advisory services across Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Dispute Resolution, Commercial Law, Tax, Restructuring & Insolvency, Employment & Benefits, Competition Law, Regulatory & Foreign Investment, Real Estate & Administrative Law, and IP/Technology & Data. The firm serves both Belgian and foreign corporate clients from offices in Brussels and Luxembourg, combining transaction advisory with litigation capability.

Product overview

Strelia is a business law firm offering a comprehensive portfolio of legal services rather than a technology product platform. The firm provides legal advisory services across multiple practice areas including Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance, Dispute Resolution, Commercial Law, Tax, Restructuring & Insolvency, Employment & Benefits, Competition Law, Real Estate & Administrative Law, and IP/Technology/Data. These services are delivered through the firm's offices in Brussels and Luxembourg, serving Belgian and international clients. The offering is structured as a full-service law firm rather than a modular product architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Secured €4.8m in damage compensation for Air Belgium following Covid-19 pandemic state aid proceedings

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• NautaDutilh: Leading Benelux business law firm with comparable corporate, finance, and dispute resolution practices. Direct competitor for cross-border Benelux deals and the kind of international-firm-quality mandates Strelia targets.
• Stibbe: Major Benelux-rooted law firm with significant Brussels and Luxembourg presence. Competes with Strelia for high-end Belgian and Luxembourg corporate, banking, and cross-border mandates, though at a materially larger scale.
• Eubelius: Major Belgian business law firm offering comparable services across corporate, banking & finance, competition, and dispute resolution. Strelia's Banking & Finance head Frédéric Heremans was previously a partner at Eubelius, making the firms direct talent competitors.
• Monard Law: Belgian full-service law firm. France Vlassembrouck and Yassine Lachmiche joined Strelia from Monard Law in 2021 to build Strelia's real estate practice, making it a direct peer and competitor for Belgian corporate and real estate mandates.
• Loyens & Loeff: Benelux-rooted law and tax firm with major presence in Belgium and Luxembourg. Competes directly with Strelia's Luxembourg office in private equity, corporate/M&A, and tax advisory mandates for fund and corporate clients.
• Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick: One of Belgium's leading independent business law firms with comparable full-service coverage including Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance, Competition, and Dispute Resolution. Directly competes for the same Belgian corporate and international-client mandates as Strelia.
• DALDEWOLF: Belgian business law firm with overlapping practice areas including competition law. Pierre Goffinet and his team joined Strelia from DALDEWOLF in 2021, making it a direct peer and prior source of Strelia's competition leadership talent.

Broad incumbents

• Allen & Overy (A&O Shearman): Global magic circle law firm with a major Brussels and Luxembourg office. Competes with Strelia for the largest Belgian and EU-level cross-border matters, but operates globally and at a fundamentally larger scale than Strelia.
• Bird & Bird: International law firm with strong Brussels presence and recognized IP/Technology/Data and competition practices that overlap with Strelia's specialty practices, though at a much larger global scale.
• Clifford Chance: Global magic circle law firm with a substantial Brussels presence competing for EU regulatory, competition, and high-end Belgian mandates. Operates as a broad incumbent rather than a Benelux specialist.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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