Lawyers in Belgium

Jean-François Van Drooghenbroeck

Of Counsel

NautaDutilh

Jean-François Vandenberghe

Jean-François Vandenberghe heads the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group at Baker McKenzie Belgium and for the larger part of the EMEA region. He is based in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1994. He is also a member of the Environmental Law Practice Group and the Corporate Practice Group. Jean-François was also the managing partner of the Belgian offices from 2009 to 2016, and more recently ad-interim since end of January 2023 to end of March 2024. Jean-François advises national and international clients on real estate transactions and their environmental aspects.

Baker McKenzie BV/SRL

Jean-Michel Degée

Partner

Arteo

Jean-Philippe Montfort

Partner

Mayer Brown

Jean-Pierre Fierens

Jean-Pierre Fierens is of counsel in our Dispute Resolution practice.

Strelia

Jean-Quentin De Cuyper

Please see http://www.willkie.com/professionals/d/de-cuyper-jeanquentin

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Jeanifer Parsigian

Winston Taylor

Jeffrey Amato

Winston Taylor

Jennifer Granado Aranzana

Managing Associate

Linklaters

Jennifer Stadler

Winston Taylor

Jens Debièvre

Partner

Dentons

Jens Mosselmans

Partner

NautaDutilh

Jens-Olrik Murach

As a distinguished antitrust lawyer with more than two decades of dedicated practice in Brussels and Germany, Jens has earned a reputation for providing pragmatic and invaluable legal counsel to his clients worldwide. His practice covers the complete range of EU and German antitrust matters across a wide spectrum of industry sectors. Jens also has significant experience handling foreign direct investment screening and EU foreign subsidies matters. Jens has advised on many complex and high-stakes merger control matters, both before the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. His broad experience includes significant transatlantic deals, and he also has strong experience in managing global merger control investigations in virtually every part of the world. Jens has represented multiple companies in cartel and monopolization investigations, including handling leniency applications, settlement negotiations, and appeals. He also has significant experience advising on vertical distribution matters and represents clients in commercial and administrative antitrust litigation.

Alston & Bird LLP

Jeroen Delvoie

Partner

Eubelius

Jeroen Raskin

Partner

Monard Law

Jeroen Smets

Jeroen Smets is a partner in the firm’s Brussels office. He concentrates his practice on corporate, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, structured and leveraged finance matters with a particular emphasis on management buy outs and acquisition finance. Jeroen advises Belgian and foreign corporates and financial institutions on a wide range of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets work, private equity and venture capital transactions as well as general corporate advisory work. He focuses in banking and finance related transactions including real estate and acquisition finance and structured finance, senior and mezzanine lending, security packages, and provides advice on regulatory and general banking law. He has extensive experience with coordination of cross-border transactions and the negotiation and structuring of complex leveraged buy-outs and both share- and asset deals and has acted on some of the landmark private equity deals in Belgium, including the first ever public to private transaction in the market. His client base is diverse and encompasses Belgian companies, multi-national corporations, long-established private companies and new ventures and Belgian and foreign financial institutions. Jeroen has extensive international experience and has lived and worked in Brussels, Moscow and New York.

K&L Gates GP

Jim Bauwens

Jim Bauwens is partner of the Real Estate practice and head of the regional offices Kortrijk and Ghent.

KPMG Law in Belgium

Jo Willems

Jo is a Partner in the Commercial & Litigation practice.

Lydian

Joan Carette

Joan Carette is a Financial law & FinTech lawyer combining broad expertise in financial and regulatory laws with specific knowledge of ICT regulations, including eIDAS, data protection, IT contracting, outsourcing, etc. She advises banks, payment institutions, e-money institutions, FinTechs and RegTechs on all legal and regulatory aspects relating to their activities. Joan’s professional background includes experience with the Belgian financial supervisory authority (at the time, CBFA) where she supervised banks, money exchange, investment firms and payment institutions. She also has extensive experience as an in-house lawyer, acquired in the context of two secondments, the first one with an entity active in payments and the second one with a RegTech. She is a Board member of FinTech Belgium. Joan Carette is ranked in Band 2 for Banking & Finance Regulatory and for FinTech by Chambers & Partners. Clients admire her “very flexible, pragmatic approach,” as well as her “deep knowledge of financial regulation.” She is also recognised in the Hall of Fame for FinTech and as a Next Generation Partner in Regulatory – Financial Services by The Legal 500. Additionally, Who’s Who Legal recommends her as a Global Leader in Banking – FinTech.

Simont Braun

Joanna Kolber

Joanna Kolber is a partner in our Dispute Resolution practice.

Strelia

Joanna Redelbach

Associate Joanna Redelbach practices international trade law, with a particular emphasis on WTO law and WTO dispute settlement. WTO Joanna advises WTO Members at every stage of WTO dispute settlement proceedings, covering consultations, panel, appeal, compliance, and retaliation proceedings. She advised clients in a number of WTO disputes involving a broad range of substantive areas, including trade in goods, anti-dumping, safeguards, technical barriers to trade and subsidies. She has worked on disputes involving general exceptions, including with respect to public health measures, and the security exception. Joanna also regularly advises corporate clients and governments on the compatibility of WTO Members’ legislation and practice with WTO law, on ongoing WTO negotiations and on issues relating to bilateral and regional trade agreements. EU and International Trade In addition to WTO law, Joanna specialises in trade defence instruments and has been involved in several EU anti-dumping, anti-circumvention, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations. She represents clients before the European Commission, the EU General Court and the EU Court of Justice. Most recently, Joanna has focused on trade aspects of the EU proposal for carbon border adjustment mechanism and the European Commission’s White Paper on Foreign Subsidies. She also advises clients on issues concerning foreign investment screening, customs, issues relating to Brexit and EU renewable energy legislation.

Van Bael & Bellis

Joeri Vananroye

Joeri Vananroye specializes in the areas of arbitration and litigation, corporate finance, and insolvency law. His main focuses are corporate and commercial litigation, high-level corporate counselling and mergers and acquisitions.

Quinz

Johan Kerremans

Partner Johan Kerremans joined Janson as a partner in 2013. He assists and defends foreign and Belgian companies in various areas of individual employment law (such as recruitment, dismissals, employee benefits, health and safety issues and privacy) and collective labour law (transfer of undertaking, outsourcing, collective dismissals, etc). Johan specialises in international labour law, including immigration, outsourcing of workers and subcontracting. He also deals with special statutes (athletes, health professionals, protected employees). Furthermore, Johan is a scientific collaborator in labour law at the University of Antwerp and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Johan regularly publishes in the field of labour law and is a frequent speaker at seminars.

Janson

Johan Van Acker

Partner Johan Van Acker specialises in EU and national competition law. His practice covers a wide range of sectors including aviation, consumer products, basic industries, steel, chemicals, electronics, information technology and real estate. Johan is particularly experienced in merger control, and he has successfully assisted clients in numerous merger cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities. For instance, Johan has been involved in several high profile EU merger control cases, including Fincantieri/Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Energizer/Spectrum Brands, Essilor/Luxottica, Halliburton/Baker Hughes, BHP Billiton/Rio Tinto, Motorola/Vertex Standard, Boeing/Lockheed Martin, Canon/IRIS and Novartis/Chiron, to name but a few. Johan also represented Skype in the unconditional EU approval of its acquisition by Microsoft, which received the 2011 Global Competition Review Matter of the Year award for Europe. He also regularly advises clients on other aspects of competition law, including cartels, horizontal and vertical agreements, abuse of dominance and state aid. For instance, Johan was part of the Van Bael & Bellis team that handled the successful opposition to the 2010 joint production agreement between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, which received the Global Competition Review Matter of the Year award in 2010. Johan also represented Japan Airlines in the cartel damages litigation in Europe following the European Commission’s Airfreight cartel decision. The Airfreight litigation was given the Matter of the Year award by Global Competition Review in 2016 and also won the American Lawyer’s International Litigation award in 2016. Johan was singled out by Global Competition Review (GCR) in its 2015 “40 under 40” feature as one of the 40 best competition lawyers worldwide under the age of 40, and one of the six best in the highly-competitive Brussels market. GCR also nominated Johan for an award in 2019 as one of the eight best competition lawyers worldwide under 40. Johan was also listed as one of the six “most highly regarded partners” in Europe in Who’s Who Legal’s “Future Leaders in Competition Law”, a peer review listing the best competition lawyers worldwide under the age of 45. Legal 500 has singled Johan out as a “Next Generation” leading EU competition lawyer in Europe. Chambers Global notes that clients describe Johan as "very bright and capable of solving difficult problems and analyses" and Who’s Who Legal cites client feedback that Johan is a “top competition expert” who “does not just provide clients with the legal analysis but will ‘think with them’ resulting in practical, relevant advice and guidance”. He regularly lectures and writes on competition law matters.

Van Bael & Bellis