Corporify provides more control over an international group structure

World of Talents specialises in staffing solutions for bottleneck professions across various sectors. The originally Belgian platform was founded in 2008 by entrepreneur Steve Rousseau as House of Talents.

Today, the overarching holding company World of Talents counts 26 offices in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Its 32 specialised brands support more than 2.800 clients across a wide range of sectors. The international group achieves an annual turnover of nearly 500 million euros and employs approximately 5.000 internal and external staff.

The strong growth of World of Talents over the years took place both organically and through acquisitions. As M&A director and head of legal, Céline Feys is closely involved in these acquisitions. She also oversees the corporate legal affairs of the holding company, and serves as the point of contact in Belgium and the Netherlands for critical legal files.

When she came on board in January 2025, it quickly became clear that the complex international group structure called for a more efficient way of working for its corporate housekeeping matters.

‘The overview of the various entities, stakeholders, shareholder registers and organisational charts had until then been managed in a too fragmented and labour-intensive way,' Céline explains.

‘We often worked in Excel and on paper, which is of course not very practical or efficient.' Céline therefore pushed almost immediately for the introduction of an integrated system that would organise corporate housekeeping in a more centralised, transparent and high-performing manner.

Complete one-stop shop

By consulting colleagues and her former contacts from the legal profession, Céline fairly quickly came across Corporify. ‘We naturally carried out a thorough analysis and comparison of the available tools on the market,' she says.

‘But we soon came to the conclusion that Corporify is the only player with a complete one-stop shop that meets the needs of a large group like ours. More specifically: an international organisation with private shareholders that therefore has a complex structure with multiple stakeholders.'

Since April 2025, Corporify has become a fixed part of World of Talents. The implementation went very smoothly according to Céline Feys. ‘We delivered all the supporting documents to the responsible parties in a secure manner, and about two weeks later we were already able to start with the verification,' she illustrates.

‘After less than a month, everything was up and running. During that start-up period, we ourselves were often unavailable due to various ongoing transactions: it could therefore have gone even faster had we been more available during the onboarding period.'

The training was also well embedded in Corporify's onboarding process, according to Céline. ‘At three fixed moments, training and follow-up sessions with actual hands-on training were planned for me and my colleagues,' she recalls. 'Those sessions were in any case very useful and interesting, with a clear plan, distinct deadlines and smooth communication.'

Eight times faster than before

World of Talents uses Corporify today primarily for the management of electronic shareholder registers, organisational charts and mutations within the group structure. These functions help the company to track changes in entities, shareholders and stakeholders more quickly and accurately.

Currently, the legal department still works with a limited number of users on the platform, partly because the process runs in parallel with a broader IT master plan. The intention is, however, to deploy Corporify more widely and even more intensively in due course.

‘Particularly for KYC purposes, organisational charts are frequently requested with all sorts of different scopes,' says Céline Feys. ‘In Corporify you can modify and extract those in the blink of an eye.

We also need to process mutations on a regular basis: the fact that this can now be done digitally saves an enormous amount of time. Whereas I used to sometimes spend a whole morning registering mutations and manually adjusting charts in Microsoft Office, that can now be done in under half an hour. That is more than eight times faster than before.'

Generating documents and e-signing are not yet actively used via the Corporify platform. According to Céline, document automation is a possible next step, once the legal simplification of the group structure has been completed.