Jasper Helder

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Areas of Focus

Jasper Helder

Partner

jasper.helder@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • Focuses on economic sanctions, export controls, national security (including EU and U.K. investment review), trade regulation, and anticorruption and anti-money laundering compliance.
  • Has particular experience regarding Russia, China and the Middle East.
  • Advises clients across industry sectors such as energy, semiconductor and hi-tech, aerospace and defense, commodity trading, investment funds and private equity on multijurisdictional sanctions and export compliance.

The advocate listed above has registered the following principal (and secondary) legal practice areas in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal areas:

1. Jasper Helder is registered for Administrative law (EU law) and criminal law (financial and economic criminal law).

 Based on this registration, he is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.

Jasper Helder’s practice focuses on international trade and corporate compliance regarding sanctions, export controls, national security, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering. He also advises on other aspects of trade regulation, including customs, trade remedies, free trade agreements and rules of origin.

Clients call upon Jasper for direct, timely and pragmatic advice, as well as his deep, detailed experience with regulatory agencies. He is routinely successful in resolving regulatory issues and disputes for clients.

His clients include multinational companies headquartered in Europe, the United States as well as Russia, in sectors from energy, semiconductor and hi-tech, aerospace and defense, to commodity trading investment funds and private equity.

His work usually involves multiple jurisdictions, including European Union (and EU member states), as well as the United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Much of his work involves the interaction between U.S. sanctions, export controls and national security regulation and other jurisdictions, including the compliance impact of local laws and ‘blocking regulations’.

Jasper is experienced in conducting internal investigations, preparing voluntary disclosures and negotiating these to a regulatory resolution/settlement, the development of compliance programs as well as mitigating compliance risks in corporate transactions and representation before regulatory agencies and institutions.

Representative Work
  • Advising a global semiconductors manufacturer on the U.K. framework for national security reviews of foreign investment under the U.K. Enterprise Act, the U.K. National Security and Investment Act and in relation to an ad-hoc review by the U.K. National Security Advisor.
  • Conducting an internal review of compliance with EU/U.K. financial sanctions against Russia in relation to shipping operations for a global energy company, including advising on self-reporting.
  • Advising a semiconductors leader on the impact of U.K. and other national security and investment regulations on the acquisition of an Asian wafer fab.
  • Assisting various clients in corporate acquisitions of emerging market assets with obtaining U.K. regulatory defenses against potential money laundering liabilities arising from historical compliance issues.
  • Conducting a sanctions and export controls compliance review for a global digital security and defense company, including self-disclosures to European and U.S. regulatory agencies.
  • Following an internal investigation and self-disclosure, negotiating a settlement with the prosecution service of a continental European country in relation to potential breaches of EU sanctions against Russia and Crimea for a global travel and hospitality platform.

"Exceptional knowledge of UK, EU and US sanctions and the ability to coordinate all these elements into an easily comprehensible advice."
Legal 500 UK, 2022

Languages
  • Dutch

  • English

  • French

  • German

Education
  • J.D., Erasmus University Rotterdam

Bar Admissions
  • Netherlands Bar Association

  • Registered Foreign Lawyer in England and Wales

Recognitions
  • Acritas, Acritas Star, 2019.
  • Chambers Global, International Trade/WTO, Europe-wide, 2013 to 2022.
  • Chambers UK, Sanctions, 2024.
  • Chambers Europe, International Trade/WTO, 2013 to 2022.
  • The Legal 500 UK, Trade, WTO, Anti-dumping and Customs, 2017-2024.
  • Who’s Who Legal, Trade & Customs, 2016-2023.
  • Who’s Who Legal, International Sanctions, 2020-2021.
  • Who’s Who Legal, Global Elite Thought Leader, Trade & Customs - International Sanctions, 2021.
  • Global Investigations Review 100, recommended for representing companies in Dutch, EU and U.S. sanctions enforcement cases, 2020.
Affiliations and Public Service
  • Netherlands Bar Association.
Speeches and Publications
  • Giving Paper “The Legal and Practical Impacts of Sanction on Construction Contracts” at Informa Construction Contracts & Law Conference, London, July 5, 2022.
  • Giving Paper “Legal Aspects of Sanctioned Country Business for Pharma, Medical and Agri Sectors” at Nielsonsmith Trade Compliance in Life Sciences, Universities and Research Institutes Conference, Zurich, May 12. 2022.
  • Giving Paper “EU Blocking Regulation – Impact of European Court of Justice Judgment in Bank of Melli Iran v Telekom Deutschland GmbH” at Nielsonsmith Trade Compliance in Life Sciences, Universities and Research Institutes Conference, Zurich, May 11. 2022.
  • “Protecting the Crown Jewels - New U.K. National Security Rules for Foreign Investment in a Post-COVID-19, Post-Brexit World”, Akin Gump Webinar, London, June 2020.

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