{"id":2681,"date":"2025-07-12T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging001.wp-ok.it\/jean-luc-schuermans\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:29:25","slug":"jean-luc-schuermans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.schuermans-law.be\/en\/team\/jean-luc-schuermans\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Luc Schuermans"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Jean-Luc Schuermans focuses on business law and corporate law. He has a rich experience in litigation and arbitration between shareholders, directors\u2019 liability and liability of accountants, financial institutions and intermediaries. He has a particular expertise in the area of acquisitions. Internationally active enterprises appreciate his multilingualism and Anglo-American education and practice, particularly in cross-border projects and transactions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Also the person behind the entrepreneur receives his full attention and in restructurings he is sensitive to industrial consolidation and employment.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Jean-Luc Schuermans advises and pleads in Dutch, French and English.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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  • Author of several publications on liability law<\/li>\n
  • Substitute Judge of the Business Court of Antwerp, department of Turnhout<\/li>\n
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    • Facult\u00e9s Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namen (Kandidaat in de rechten, 1987)<\/li>\n
    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Licentiaat in de rechten, 1990)<\/li>\n
    • Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles (Bijzonder licenciaat verzekeringsrecht en -economie, 1992)<\/li>\n
    • Duke University School of Law, Durham, NC, USA (LL.M., 1994)<\/li>\n
    • Eastern China University School of Law, Shanghai, PRC (Summer Program, 1995)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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