Frederik Van Remoortel

Commercial, corporate and M&A, privacy and data protection.

Frederik Van Remoortel is head of our Corporate and our Commercial department and also a renowned expert member of our Privacy and Cybersecurity department.

Frederik regularly assists companies in setting up, operating, and restructuring their business in Belgium. He handles corporate transactional matters (such as acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, and other collaborative arrangements), and provides general corporate counseling. Frederik drafts and negotiates a wide variety of commercial contracts for his clients, including shareholders agreements, asset transfer agreements, licensing and distribution agreements, agency agreements, co-operation agreements, software and cloud computing contracts, complex telecommunication agreements such as (Full) MVNO agreements, outsourcing, supply agreements, independent contractor agreements, various types of lease agreements, and terms and conditions.

To complement his corporate practice, Frederik also advises clients with respect to individual and collective Belgian labor and employment law, in particular in the framework of restructurings.

Frederik has more than 20 years’ experience advising clients with respect to Belgian and EU data protection and privacy legislation. He regularly performs global privacy audits for multinational clients, and he assists with the adoption and implementation of GDPR compliance programs and questions related to international data transfers. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).

Frederik's experience includes both contentious and non-contentious work. He has extensive litigation experience before the Belgian Courts in corporate, commercial and labor & employment matters (shareholder disputes, termination of distribution agreements, employee termination cases, etc.).

Catholic University of Namur - Catholic University of Leuven, J.D. (1997); Catholic University of Leuven (1998) postgraduate degree in tax law.