Jan van der Beek

Career

Jan van der Beek is Associate at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office and member of the IP/IT/Media practice group. His area of expertise comprises copyright, press, trademark and unfair competition law. He advises national and international clients, mainly media and technology companies, comprehensively on all media law issues. His work focuses on the enforcement and defence of their rights in these areas in extrajudicial and judicial disputes. A further focus is on advising providers from the field of new media.

Jan van der Beek studied law with a focus on intellectual property and competition law at the University of Bayreuth and completed additional training in economics (Wirtschaftsjurist (Uni. Bayreuth)). He holds a Master of Laws degree from Trinity College Dublin (LL.M. in International and European Intellectual Property Law). He completed his legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court. Jan van der Beek was admitted to the German Bar in 2018. Before joining BEITEN BURKHARDT, he worked for several international commercial law firms and an international consumer goods manufacturer in intellectual property, unfair competition, antitrust and IT law. He has been working with BEITEN BURKHARDT since 2018.