Jörg Hladjk > Jones Day > Brussels, Belgium > Lawyer Profile

The team of ‘lawyers with strong technology backgrounds’ at Jones Day is active across areas such as  competition and regulatory issues in the telecoms sector, cybersecurity assessments in the context of transactional work, and contractual mandates. The firm is also well positioned to handle an array of venture capital work in the space. Jörg Hladjk, one of four heads of team, is praised for his ‘great communication skills’. Fellow co-heads Bernard Amory and Alexandre Verheyden frequently handle domestic and EU-level competition work for telecoms clients, while co-head Thomas De Muynck is able able to bring his corporate expertise to bear on cross-border technology transactions for local and foreign multinationals and private equity funds. Regulatory issues connected with Belgian fibre roll-out fall among Yvan Desmedt‘s practice strengths, and Laurent De Muyter is recommended for EU regulatory issues.

The team at Jones Day handles the full gamut of issues for a varied client roster of pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, and medical device manufacturers. Leveraging its network across the European Union, the firm advises on numerous digital health matters, pre-market clinical trials, and post-market studies. Practice head Cristiana Spontoni is known for acting on a variety of matters concerning product regulation, in addition to both pre and post-market issues relating to product liability, distribution, and data privacy. Ursula Schliessner maintains a health and safety focused practice, while Jörg Hladjk focuses on privacy and cybersecurity mandates, regularly advising research centers and medical device companies.

The cross-departmental group at Jones Day is noted as being ‘unique for its in-depth knowledge of the sector, agile approach, and innovation‘. The team has a global and local technology and telecoms client base, which includes government agencies as well as key industry players. Bernard Amory and Alexandre Verheyden provide a competition and antitrust angle, while ‘excellent communicator‘ Jörg Hladjk focuses on the cybersecurity and data protection elements.

‘Star lawyer‘ Jörg Hladjk helms the dedicated cybersecurity, privacy and data protection practice at Jones Day, frequently cooperating on key mandates with experienced practitioner Laurent De Muyter. In addition to GDPR compliance work, the team predominantly focuses on four key areas – advising on cyber and ransomware attacks, developing binding corporate rules for global data transfers, handling the data aspects of transactions, and assisting critical infrastructure companies. Clients are regularly able to benefit from the firm’s global network.