Advises multinational companies on economic sanctions, export controls, national security (including European Union (EU) and United Kingdom investment review), trade regulation, anticorruption and anti-money laundering compliance.
Recognised authority on regulatory matters involving Russia, the Middle East and China.
Guides clients in high-stakes sectors and markets, including energy, semiconductors and hi-tech, telecommunications, aerospace & defence, commodity trading, investment funds and private equity, through complex multijurisdictional sanctions and trade compliance challenges.
Jasper helps clients in highly regulated sectors and global markets in complex international trade, national security and regulatory matters.
Advising on Key Regulatory Considerations
With more than three decades of international trade experience, Jasper has helped organizations manage:
Sanctions
Export controls
National security & investment reviews
Customs & trade compliance
Anti-bribery & corruption
Anti-money laundering (AML)
Supply chain & cross-border regulatory risk
Trade remedies, free trade agreements and rules of origin.
He develops forward-looking strategies that help clients anticipate regulatory shifts and succeed in geopolitically sensitive transactions, industries and jurisdictions.
Jasper also leads regulatory and internal investigations, prepares voluntary disclosures and negotiates favourable resolutions with enforcement agencies—including in criminal matters. His transactional practice includes counseling on mergers & acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures (JVs), investments, lending, due diligence, shareholder matters and corporate governance.
Client-Focused Approach
Jasper keeps clients’ business objectives front and centre, delivering direct, timely and pragmatic counsel informed by decades of hands-on engagement with regulators. He has a proven track record of resolving complex regulatory disputes and achieving outcomes that protect his clients’ interests.
Clients Spanning Sectors
Jasper’s clients include leading multinational companies, asset managers and global manufacturers headquartered in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Asia across diverse sectors, including:
Energy (upstream & downstream)
Semiconductors and hi-tech
Aerospace & defence
Shipping
Commodity trading
Private equity, private credit, sovereign wealth funds & investment management.
Experience Across Jurisdictions
Jasper’s matters regularly span multiple jurisdictions, including the EU (and individual member states), the UK, the US and Switzerland. He is particularly skilled at managing the interplay between US sanctions, export controls and national security regulations and compliance requirements of other jurisdictions—including local laws and “blocking regulations.”
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)
Based on this registration, he is required to obtain 10 training credits per calendar year in each registered principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.
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.
Advising a global telecoms leader on the sanctions compliance aspects of a debt restructuring and subsequent divestment of its Russian operations.
Advising a semiconductors leader on the interface between U.S., Chinese and European economic security policies and related export controls and trade negotiations.
Advising several clients on unilateral high-tech export controls adopted by different EU member-states.
Advising several clients on sanctions compliance aspects of their withdrawal from the Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) 2 project.
Advising multiple LNG traders on the impact of EU sanctions against Russia and EU legislative proposals for energy resilience and wind down of Russian energy imports.
Advising state and privately owned oil and energy trading companies on sanctions compliance in relation to the G7 ‘price-cap’ for Russian oil and oil products and other sanctions aspects of trades in Russian energy.
Advising a global leader in medical manufacturing and test equipment on the application of EU export controls in relation to biological processing equipment.
Providing expert evidence in arbitrations concerning contractual disputes originating from EU, UK and Swiss sanctions.
Advising a U.S. based investment advisor on financing for (the divestment) of North American subsidiaries of a UK sanctioned steel company.
Customs litigation in respect of retroactive claims for customs- and anti-dumping duties related to common storage of biofuels of different origins.
Advising a global leader in heavy lift transportation on the sanctions compliance aspects of its divestment of its Russian operations.
Advising a major tobacco company on sanctions compliance for its business in sanctioned countries.
Counseling in respect of sanctions compliance for ongoing pharmaceutical clinical trials in Russia to a global leader in clinical trial services.
Advising various investment advisors on the application of EU, UK, BVI, Cayman and other sanctions regulations to investment funds with sanctioned limited partner participation, and strategies for the exit of sanctioned investors.
Successful representation of a private investor resulting in the withdrawal of an investigation by an EU member state national competent authority into alleged ‘control’ by sanctioned parties of a football club.
Advising several fund clients on secondary transactions in Russian-issued securities and sanctions compliance, including: Sanctions compliance in relation to Russian-forced conversion of depositary receipts for such securities. The impact of the EU sanctions designation of the Russian National Securities Depositary.