Jan-Frederik Keustermans’ practice covers transactional and advisory work and focuses on data protection, artificial intelligence (AI), digital regulation, and intellectual property.

Jan-Frederik has significant experience in representing multinational corporations and private equity firms in strategic and complex acquisitions, disposals, and investments, as well as high-stakes commercial contracts (including IP licensing), carve-outs, and business separations. He also regularly advises clients across a broad range of sectors and industries on strategy, governance, and compliance in the fields of digital regulation, intellectual property, technology law, data protection, and privacy.

Jan-Frederik joined the firm in 2013 as a stagiaire and returned to the firm as an associate in 2015. From 2018 to 2019, he was a resident in the New York office. Jan-Frederik previously completed a client secondment as Senior AI Product Counsel at a major technology company.

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Notable Experience

  • The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in its $701 million sale of the Dunlop brand to Sumitomo Rubber Industries.

  • Duravant, a Warburg Pincus and Carlyle portfolio company, in its acquisition of Pattyn Group.

  • Showpad in its sale to Vector Capital as part of the merger between Showpad and Bigtincan.

  • Infinite Electronics, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in its acquisition of Regatta Topco Limited (Bulgin) from Equistone Partners Europe.

  • Alimentation Couche Tard in the €3.1 billion acquisition of TotalEnergies’ retail network in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

  • Collibra in the redomiciliation of its parent entity from Belgium to the Netherlands.

  • A large secondaries investor as lead investor in a GP-led secondary transaction with a major credit sponsor for the acquisition of credit assets from a variety of Ares managed funds.

  • Western Digital in the sale of its ActiveScale business to Quantum Corporation.

  • Ontex Group in several transactions, including the sale of its Brazilian activities to Softys.

  • Solvay in the global spin-off of its Specialty activities to Syensqo and the dual listing of Syensqo on Euronext Brussels and Euronext Paris.

  • Westlake Chemical in its acquisition of Hexion’s Epoxy business for approximately $1.2 billion.

  • Finnish company Valmet in its acquisition of North American-based GL&V.

  • Umicore in its €142.4 million sale of its Umicore Zinc Chemicals business to OpenGate Capital.

  • State Grid International Development in connection with its proposed €850 million subscription of a 14% stake in Eandis Assets.

  • General Motors in the €1.3 billion sale of its Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary and in the €0.9 billion sale of its GM Financial’s European operations to PSA Group.

  • Agilent Technologies in its $250 million acquisition of ACEA Biosciences.

  • CVC Capital Partners (Fund V) in its exit sale of Continental Foods to GBfoods, a division of Spanish food group Agrolimen.

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Selected Activities

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Graduate Editor, Journal of International Law and Politics, New York University School of Law

Editor in Chief, Jura Falconis, University of Leuven

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