Joost Peeters, co-founder and partner of STUDIO | LEGALE started his Law Studies at the University of Antwerp (UA) and graduated via the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) at the University of Rome (ROMA LUISS) prior to joining the Bar of Antwerp in 2001. He is specialised in Insurance Law, Company Law (legal assistance in various takeovers and share transfers), Business Law, (Commercial) Tenancy Law, Contract Law, and Traffic Law. He is liquidator/curator in bankruptcy proceedings and he assist companies that are in difficulties (mainly in cases governed by the Belgian Continuity of Enterprises Act). He was sworn in as Deputy Justice of the Peace in Antwerp and is also a Legal Assessor for the Belgian Architects’ Association and Administrator. Joost PEETERS is holder of the Special Training Certificate for Belgian Criminal Cassation Proceedings. He recently obtained the DPO (Data Protection Officer) Degree concerning the new GDPR at the esteemed DPI (Data Protection Institute). He is a certified collaborative negotiator and certified mediator in civil and commercial matters. He also followed a course in mediation in social affairs in 2020.

He speaks and writes Dutch, French and English fluently and can get by in Italian and German.