Frederik Van Remoortel is a counsel in the Brussels office of Crowell & Moring and has been admitted at the Brussels bar since 1998. He joined Crowell & Moring in 2001. Frederik specializes in corporate, commercial and labor & employment law.

He regularly assists international companies in setting up, operating and restructuring their business in Belgium. This includes a wide variety of corporate transactional matters including acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and other collaborative arrangements as well as general corporate counseling.

A substantial part of his work consists of the drafting and negotiation of a wide variety of commercial contracts, such as shareholders agreements, asset transfer agreements, licensing and distribution agreements, agency agreements, co-operation agreements, software contracts, complex telecommunication agreements, outsourcing, supply agreements, independent contractor agreements, leases, standard terms and conditions, … His expertise also includes day to day counseling on domestic commercial law issues.

Representative clients whom Frederik works for include telecom operators, pharmaceutical companies, software developers, internet service providers, record companies, electronic consumer and professional electronic equipment manufacturers and distributors, defense/aerospace companies, manufacturers of medical equipment, carpet manufacturers and clothing companies, all based in various jurisdictions. Frederik also assists various US and Belgium based non-profit and trade associations.

To complement his corporate practice, Frederik also advises clients with respect to individual and collective Belgian labor and employment law.

Frederik is also a member of the firm's privacy group and regularly performs global privacy audits for multinational clients. He assists clients with the adoption and implementation of compliance programs and with the required notifications to the various national data protection authorities in Europe.

His experience includes both contentious and non-contentious work.

Frederik is a qualified lawyer in Belgium and obtained his law degree from the Universities of Namur and Leuven. He obtained a postgraduate degree in Tax Law from the University of Leuven. During his studies at the University of Leuven, he studied six months at the University of Stellenbosch (South-Africa) in the framework of an exchange program.

His working languages are Dutch, English and French.