Jan J.H. Joosten

Partner

P: (212) 837-6802
F: (212) 422-4726

Areas of Concentration

  • Capital Markets
  • International
  • Joint Ventures
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Transportation and Equipment Finance

Professional Activities

  • Director and Secretary, The Netherland-America Foundation, Inc.
  • Director and Secretary, Leiden University Fund (U.S.A.), Inc.
  • Chair and Lecturer, Kluwer Seminars, Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2000, December 2000 and November 2001
  • Lecturer, Seminar on Investing in Information and Communication Technology, Initial Public Offerings in the U.S., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2000
  • Lecturer, Erasmus University Meesterweek Seminar on Corporate Governance, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 2003
  • Lecturer, Meeting of the Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association, Effective Partnering between U.S. and non-U.S. counsel Avoiding the Pitfalls, Brussels, Belgium, October 2003
  • Lecturer, Netherlands Foreign Trade Agency Seminar on Doing Business in the U.S., Starting in the U.S.: Legal Pitfalls, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2003
  • Lecturer, ABN AMRO Worldweeks Seminar, Legal Pitfalls When Doing Business in the U.S., Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 2003
  • Lecturer, Meeting of the Netherlands Securities Law Association, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 2004
  • Lecturer, Netherlands Foreign Trade Agency Seminar on Doing Business in the U.S., Legal Tips for Successfully Doing Business in the U.S., Zwolle, the Netherlands, November 2006
  • Lecturer, DHL Seminar on Doing Business in the U.S., Legal Tips for Successfully Doing Business in the U.S., New York, N.Y., October 2007.
  • Lecturer, Delegation of the Province of Friesland, Legal Tips for Successfully Doing Business in the U.S., New York, N.Y., September 2009.
  • Lecturer, TIO College, Differences between U.S. and Netherlands Law, New York, N.Y., January 2008, January 2009 and January 2010.
  • Lecturer, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Differences between U.S. and Netherlands Law, New York, N.Y., January 2010.
  • Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Law Academy (VULA), Post-Graduate Training Program on Mergers & Acquisitions, Mergers & Acquisitions in the U.S., Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2009.
  • Lecturer, OSR Post-Graduate Legal Training Seminars, U.S. Contract Law, Utrecht, the Netherlands, November 2009.
  • Lecturer, ZyLAB Conference on eDiscovery, Discovery and eDiscorvery in U.S. Litigation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2010.

Education Information

  • Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Spring 1989
  • University of Leiden, Master of Civil Law, 1991
  • University of Leiden, Master of Tax Law, 1991
  • Harvard Law School, LL.M., 1992

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 1994
  • Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1994-1997

Language Expertise

  • Dutch
  • French
  • German