Kristof Panis

work experience

  • Since February 2014: INGENIUS Law Firm SRL: Attorney-at-Law (owner)
  • I am a Belgian multilingual Attorney-at-Law, qualified at the Brussels Bar (Belgium) and working for various industry sectors (IT, Pharmaceutical, Banking, Telecom, Chemical, Consumer Products, Construction). I have extensive working experience in both common law (UK, US, Ireland) and civil law (Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands) jurisdictions. I am also a qualified Belgian Data Protection Officer (DPO). Ingenius Law Firm is also a member of the American Bar Association (ABA). See also Kristof Panis for project and client references.
  • My main focus area are:
  • Information Technology Law (IT Services, SaaS, Software Licensing, Outsourcing)
  • Data Privacy Law (qualified DPO): e.g. Data Processing Agreements, Data Protection Impact Assessments, Privacy Policy implementation, implementing OneTrust.
  • Commercial Agreements for various jurisdictions (BE, NL): Distribution Agreements, Sales Agreements, Procurement Agreements, Commercial Lease Law.
  • Distribution Law and Franchising Law
  • Competition Law
  • E-Commerce Law, Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Law
  • Intellectual Property Law (including Licensing Agreements, R&D Agreements registration of IP) and Competition Law
  • Public Procurement Law (Belgische overheidsopdrachten)
  • Corporate Law
  • Construction Law and Tenancy Law
  • My focus is on consultancy projects: current and previous consultancy projects:
  • DKV NV (Brussels, Belgium) (November 2025-April 2026): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Contracting, ICT & Data Protection
  • BankB (Waregem, Belgium) (September 2025-February 2026): Data Protection Officer (DPO) ad interim
  • DPO and Head of Data Privacy
  • Crelan NV (Brussels, Belgium) (February 2025 - September 2025): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Responsible for implementing DORA compliance requirements into all ICT and outsourcing agreements across multiple banking stakeholders.
  • Conducted detailed contractual gap assessments against DORA Articles 28–30 (ICT Risk Management, Third-Party Risk, Operational Resilience).
  • Multipharma CV (Brussels, Belgium) (April 2025 – September 2025): Legal Counsel ad interim
  • Very broad project scope: Contract Law, Data Privacy Law, IT Law, Construction Law, Tenancy Law
  • UCB SA (Brussels, Belgium) (January 2022-January 2025): Senior Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Global IT Agreements (IT Services Agreements, Software Licensing Agreements, SaaS Agreements): responsible for all global IT procurement as a senior legal counsel
  • General Procurement Agreements
  • Data Protection Law: drafting new DPA templates and reviewing various DP documents
  • Certis Belchim NV (Utrecht, the Netherlands and Londerzeel, Belgium) (May 2023-April 2024): Senior Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Drafting various policy documents
  • Distribution Agreements
  • IT Agreements
  • Deloitte Belgium BV (Brussels, Belgium) (July 2023-January 2024): Senior Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Public Procurement Law
  • Procurement Law
  • Data protection Law
  • CEGEKA NV (Hasselt, Belgium) (March 2021-December 2021): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • IT Procurement Agreements and Partnership Agreements
  • Public Procurement Law
  • Data Protection Law: reviewing DPA’s, assisting business on various DP Law topics
  • SABIC/ Saudi-Aramco (Sittard, the Netherlands) (September 2018- December 2021): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Distribution Law: implementing Distribution Agreements in various countries for various legal entities taking into account local mandatory legislation.
  • Data Protection Law: drafting and negotiating Data Processing Agreements and other relevant documents in order to be compliant with the GDPR: I negotiated 100+ DPA’s for SABIC and was leading the DPA implementation project.
  • BASF (Nunhem, the Netherlands) (August 2018-December 2018): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Distribution Law: implementing Distribution Agreements in various countries for various legal entities taking into account local mandatory legislation.
  • Answering various Data Privacy questions
  • Procurement Agreements
  • IT Procurement Agreements (Software Licensing Agreements, IT Services Agreements, Software as a Service (SaaS) Agreements) including Data Privacy
  • IP infringement procedures
  • BAYER (Nunhem, the Netherlands) (January 2018-August 2018): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Distribution Law: implementing Distribution Agreements in various countries for various legal entities taking into account local mandatory legislation.
  • Answering various Data Privacy questions
  • Procurement Agreements
  • IT Procurement Agreements (Software Licensing Agreements, IT Services Agreements, Software as a Service (SaaS) Agreements) including Data Privacy
  • IP infringement procedures
  • AGC GLASS EUROPE SA (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) (August 2017- August 2019): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • IT Procurement Agreements: IT Services Agreements, Software Licensing Agreements, SaaS Agreements
  • Drafting new Data Privacy documents in collaboration with the legal department
  • International Sales and Partnership Agreements, Warehousing Agreements
  • General Procurement Agreements
  • IP Law: IP infringement litigation, License agreements, Joint Development Agreements, Research and Development Agreements, Consortium Agreements
  • SIGNIFY (former PHILIPS Lighting) (High Tech Campus Eindhoven and HQ Amsterdam, The Netherlands) (August 2016-July 2017): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Data Privacy and Data Security advising, negotiation of Data Privacy and Data Security Schedules, implementing and advising on the new GDPR
  • Drafting new Requests for Proposals (RFP’s) for IT applications and IT infrastructure for Philips Lighting
  • Software as a Service Agreements, Software Licensing Agreements, Hosting Agreements and IT Services Agreements
  • Intellectual Property Law: advising on licensing of the tradenames and trademarks
  • Compliancy advising: e.g. Export Control, negotiating of compliancy schedules
  • BELFIUS Bank (Brussels, Belgium) (March 2016-August 2016): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Member of M&A team/Corporate Law department: reviewing and drafting of corporate legal documents, assisting start-up companies
  • Drafting and negotiating Joint Development Agreements in the Fintech Sector
  • IT Procurement Contracts: negotiating and drafting e.g. IT outsourcing deals, (Mobile) Payment Contracts, and other IT supplier contracts (including Data Privacy advising)
  • Intellectual Property Law: advising on designs, copyright, trademarks and patents
  • SIEMENS (Brussels, Belgium) (July 2015- January 2016): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Public Procurement Law: analysing and negotiating public tenders for the Siemens Mobility/Public Transport Division, negotiating and interpreting existing contracts
  • General Contract Law: reviewing and negotiating supplier agreements
  • Intellectual Property Law: advising on trademarks and patents
  • Construction Law: litigation
  • PROXIMUS (Brussels, Belgium) (January 2014-August 2014): Legal Counsel ad interim:
  • Drafting and negotiating international roaming agreements, interconnection agreements, and other wholesale telecommunications agreements
  • Advising on Data Privacy Law, Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law
  • Public Procurement Law
  • Advising on Telecommunications Law

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