24-09-2021: Global law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce the hire of antitrust and competition law partner Michel Struys to its Brussels office, demonstrating the firm’s strategic growth of its global regulatory practice.
16-09-2021: DLA Piper has appointed the former European Commissioner, Minister and Member of the Irish Parliament, Phil Hogan, as a senior strategic and political advisor to the firm.
24-08-2021: Cisnal De Ugarte becomes the third partner in the Brussels office, joining international trade partner Marie-Sophie Dibling and life sciences partner Geneviève Michaux. She equally represents clients in complex antitrust investigations and counsels on compliance issues.
02-06-2021: Elisabethann Wright has joined Cooley in Brussels as a partner in the firm’s growing business litigation and healthcare regulatory practice groups. Wright arrives from Hogan Lovells, where she co-led its European Union life sciences regulatory practice.
17-05-2021: International law firm Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce that Ivan Peeters & Philip Van Steenwinkel are joining the firm in Brussels with a focus on expanding the firm's finance, capital markets and financial regulatory offering. They join with three associates.
17-05-2021: Nicolas Lippens has joined Loyens & Loeff in Belgium as partner. Next to Natalie Reypens, Nicolas Bertrand, Marc Dhaene, Saskia Lust and Bert Gevers, he will be the sixth partner in the Tax practice group in Brussels where he will further strengthen our Tier 1 Tax capabilities in Belgium.
13-05-2021: The new office, which will be fully integrated with Curtis’ worldwide platform, will focus initially on investment treaty arbitration, international commercial arbitration, and public international law, with plans to expand its offering to include international trade and other practices.
03-05-2021: Gerard's and Wouter's role will be to enhance the activity and portfolio in Belgium and in Europe of the successful and reputed regulatory practice, and continue providing first class expert advice to clients that the firm serves in the European Regulatory and Energy areas of law.
12-04-2021: Carles Esteva Mosso brings more than two decades’ experience to the firm’s market-leading global Antitrust & Competition Practice. He is one of the leading figures in the global antitrust community, and has been actively involved in some of Europe’s most significant merger control and State aid matters, policy decisions, and legislative proposals over the past two decades.
05-01-2021: Karel Bourgeois advises clients on EU and Belgian competition law and state aid law. He has in-depth experience working with clients in the technology, media and telecommunications, infrastructure, energy, financial services, and consumer goods industries
02-01-2021: This expansion follows the recent announcement of the addition of leading antitrust lawyer, Antonio Bavasso, to the Firm. Antonio, who officially joined Simpson Thacher today, has more than 20 years of experience advising on some of the most high-profile and precedent-setting merger.
10-11-2020: Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has announced that Wilko van Weert has joined its antitrust and competition team as a partner in Brussels
01-10-2020: Mr. Van Vooren has a broad EU regulatory practice supporting innovative pharmaceutical, food, and biotech companies on regulatory, commercial, and strategic policy assignments
29-09-2020: Ms. Bock has experience with arbitration proceedings conducted under the auspices of various of the leading international arbitral institutions as well as with ad hoc proceedings, including more than a dozen gas price review arbitrations and related proceedings
23-09-2020: Vassilis Akritidis joins as a partner from DWF, where he led the International Trade and WTO practice and served as managing partner of that firm’s Brussels office
02-09-2020: Covington has named Dan Cooper to lead its European data protection practice as co-chair of the firm’s global Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice, and he has relocated to Brussels to be closer to the institutions and courts that govern the European data privacy landscape
02-09-2020: Strelia is pleased to announce the appointment of new partners in its offices in Brussels and Luxembourg.
01-09-2020: Helleputte advises clients on compliance with existing EU and national cybersecurity, data and privacy laws, such as the directive on security of network and information systems (the NIS Directive), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Cybersecurity Act, along with upcoming developments such as the ePrivacy Regulation and the Digital Services Act
01-09-2020: Van Eecke has more than 25 years of experience guiding clients through complex issues spanning data protection, cyber, consumer protection, advertising and electronic signatures. He advises startups, scaleups and multinationals in diverse industry sectors, including telecommunication companies, internet service providers, software developers and companies using IT-related services.
01-09-2020: At Venturis, Rik will assist law firms and other legal service providers in achieving their strategic objectives, particularly through in-depth market analysis, strategic reviews (including strategic business planning), and the development and execution of growth strategies (including the onboarding of teams and mergers & acquisitions).
