Antoon Dierick
Antoon Dierick, a lawyer specializing in gambling, leads the innovation team at Ace Law and is also familiar with the legal aspects of IT, IP, GDPR and cyber.
Antoon has over ten years of relevant experience in serving national and international clients, both as a lawyer at a top international law firm and as Chief Legal Officer at an international gambling and IT company, where he directly advised the board of directors and management. Antoon has developed a sector-specific focus on gaming and gambling companies, IT-related companies and start-ups and scale-ups in the innovation industry. He assists such clients in drafting and negotiating a wide range of IT, privacy and other commercial agreements, in business-oriented advisory work (including gambling in the broad sense), in dispute resolution (including various gambling files for various courts, courts of appeal and the Council of State) and in M&A-related activities.
Antoon is not only working with the Gambling Club; but also the author of various articles on IT, data & privacy and gambling, regularly gives lectures on these subjects and is a member of the digitalisation and innovation committees of the OVB (Order of the Order of Flemish Bars) and the Ghent Bar, as well as a member of the IT/IP editorial team of a well-known legal journal.