Bio

Jan Joosten is a partner in the New York office specializing in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (including private equity transactions), capital markets transactions and joint ventures, often with cross-border aspects. A native of the Netherlands, Mr. Joosten has extensive experience in representing Dutch and other European companies that do business in the United States in a broad range of matters. Mr. Joosten has lectured extensively on topics such as legal pitfalls for foreign companies doing business in the U.S., mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. by Dutch companies and U.S. securities law. He is the co-author of “U.S. Securities Regulation — a Guidebook for International Companies” and “Legal Aspects of Doing Business in the United States for Dutch Companies.” Mr. Joosten is a member of the Board of Directors and the immediate past Chairman of the Netherland-America Foundation, Inc., the President of Leiden University Fund (U.S.A.), Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for the Dutch outside of the Netherlands.