M 69 · M 70 · M 73

Law firms, accountants, consultants and agencies in Belgium

Law firms, notaries, accountants and bookkeepers, management consultancies and advertising agencies: for software vendors, publishers, training providers and office suppliers who want to write to firms in a province or size up their market.

Our Belgian database holds 779,149 records (as of 5 November 2026); they are not yet assigned to industries. The quote states the size available for this industry.

Export of the whole industry: €469 (excluding VAT). Selections by province, municipality or your own filters are quoted on request.

Official statistics: 149,612 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Divisions 69 legal and accounting activities (39,572), 70 head offices and management consultancy (100,692) and 73 advertising and market research (9,348) combined. This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.

Preparing a list of professional firms

First define the profession and the region, for example bookkeeping firms in Antwerp and Limburg. With the website as a required field you can check each firm’s services afterwards.

The industry figure combines legal, accounting, consulting and advertising businesses. It is not a count of one profession and not proof of registration with a professional body.

Price of the whole industry: €469. A selection by province, sub-industry or required fields is quoted individually; the whole-industry price is not a price promise for the filtered selection.

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What counts as Business and consulting services

Official statistics group these firms in three divisions of NACE-BEL 2008: 69 legal and accounting activities, 70 head offices and management consultancy, and 73 advertising and market research. Architects and engineers are classified separately under 71 and have their own industry page.

Division 70 is remarkably large in Belgium. Many directors, interim managers and consultants work through their own company, which often registers management consultancy as its activity. If you are looking for consultancies with staff, make the website a required field and review the list afterwards.

NACE-BEL 2008Official titleNote
69.1Legal activitieslawyers, notaries, bailiffs and other legal services
69.2Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancyaccountants, bookkeepers, tax advisers and statutory auditors
70.1Activities of head officesoften holdings and group structures without public contact
70.2Management consultancy activitiesmanagement and organisation consulting, communication consulting; also management companies
73.1Advertisingadvertising agencies and media representation
73.2Market research and public opinion pollingmarket research and polls

Professional lists and the CBE: what is public

The regulated professions in this industry keep their own lists. They are meant for checking one practitioner, not for use as an address file.

CBE (KBO)
Every business has an enterprise number in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises (FPS Economy). The KBO Public Search lets you look up one business at a time free of charge. The KBO Open Data files require registration; we therefore do not use the CBE as a source.
Professional bodies
Lawyers are registered with their bar, notaries with the notarial profession, accountants and tax advisers with the ITAA and statutory auditors with the IBR. These bodies keep their own lists; we do not use them as a source.
Natural persons
Many lawyers and bookkeepers are self-employed in their own name. Their office details are then personal data: the information duty under Article 14 GDPR and the right to object also apply to letters.

Not in the export

  • registration with the bar, ITAA or IBR and its number
  • names and specialisms of individual lawyers or accountants
  • number of employees and turnover
  • clients and current files
  • mobile numbers of individual staff

These 14 columns are included.

Firm or person: what it means for your campaign

A law firm can be a company or a partnership, but just as well a single lawyer working as a natural person. In the export you can tell from the legal form, where the source shows it, and from the email address type.

For email without prior consent, the Royal Decree of 4 April 2003 only allows impersonal addresses of legal entities, such as info@ or office@, and the offer must be intended for legal entities. An address such as firstname.lastname@ or the address of a self-employed person requires consent. Use the e_mail_type column and keep only “algemeen” (general) for companies.

In Brussels a large share of firms work in French or in both languages. If you write in Dutch, first select the provinces or municipalities where your target group is, and prepare a French version for Brussels.

Example request

We sell accounting software and are looking for bookkeeping and accountancy firms (69.2) with a website in East and West Flanders, for a letter inviting them to a demo. Holdings and management companies without a website can be left out. How many records is that and how current are the data?

Use cases

Who uses lists like this

Software for professional firms

Accounting, case management and invoicing software: letters to firms per province, sorted by postcode.

Training and seminars

Invitations to continuing education for accountancy and law firms in a region.

Office fit-out and IT management

Prospecting firms with a website, with a separate French-language list for Brussels.

Market research

Estimate the supply per sub-sector and province before opening an office or making an acquisition.

Questions

Business and consulting services: frequently asked questions

Yes, on request, based on the category and the name in the source (in the statistics, group 69.2). Our records do not yet carry a NACE-BEL code; before quoting we tell you how reliable this selection is.

Without consent only to a general address of a legal entity, with an offer intended for legal entities and an unsubscribe option in every message (Royal Decree of 4 April 2003). If a lawyer works in their own name, consent is required. More in the guide B2B email marketing in Belgium.

Because in Belgium many directors and consultants work through their own company registered as management consultancy. For a campaign aimed at consultancies with a real office, the website as a required field is a useful first filter.

149,612 businesses in Belgium according to Eurostat, Structural Business Statistics (sbs_ovw_act), number of enterprises (reference year 2024, Eurostat update of 30 September 2026, retrieved on 4 November 2026). Divisions 69 legal and accounting activities (39,572), 70 head offices and management consultancy (100,692) and 73 advertising and market research (9,348) combined. This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.

Format, sources, price and the rules for email and phone marketing in Belgium: questions about all industries.

Which firms in which province?