Patrick joined Bird & Bird in 2004 and is an associate in our Aviation/IT practice. His combined expertise covers a whole spectrum of matters both in communications technology and in the aviation business, including outsourcing projects, general contract drafting and advising. His experience also includes transactional and litigation work in the field of IT and communications law, data protection, e-business and public/private tendering projects for a wide range of clients. His practice also focuses on the aviation, telecommunications and space technology sectors. 

Prior to joining Bird & Bird, Patrick worked for several years as an associate in the technology, media and telecommunications department of the international law firm Stibbe in Brussels.

Patrick graduated from the K.U. Leuven in 1998 and holds a Master degree in European Business Law from the Institut d’Etudes Européennes (University of Brussels), where he also specialised in aviation law. Moreover, he successfully took part in an introduction course on English law in 2002 (London School of Economics).

Recently he further specialised in space technology law by completing an LLM-module on space institutions, applications and national laws at the International Institute on Air & Space Law (University of Leiden). Patrick was admitted to the Brussels bar in 1999. He speaks and writes fluently in Dutch, French, English and has a good knowledge of German, Italian and Spanish.