After a few years of inactivity we are relaunching the Bruesseler Runde, a forum of German lawyers in Brussels working in the EU institutions, other international organisations, trade associations, companies and law firms. The group will meet again three to four times a year for a casual dinner and exchange of ideas and information.
02-09-2014: Belgian-Luxembourgish law firm De Wolf & Partners has appointed Gerald Stevens as its new Managing Partner.
25-06-2014: Sebastian Vos, an international public policy professional, is joining Covington & Burling to lead the European division of the firm’s global public policy and government affairs practice.
25-06-2014: Leading global law firm Mayer Brown has appointed Antitrust and Competition partner, Jens Peter Schmidt, as partner-in-charge for Brussels, effective 1 June 2014.
The American Lawyer's US-EU Legal Summit, to be held in Brussels on June 16th, is pleased to announce that the keynote address will be delivered by the European Commission's Chief Negotiator of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Mr. Ignacio García Bercero.
20-05-2014: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte as a partner in its Antitrust and International Trade groups, as well as the firm’s European (EU) Regulatory Practice. She joins the Crowell & Moring Brussels office from Mayer Brown.
18-05-2014: Covington & Burling is pleased to announce that Johan Ysewyn and Peter Camesasca are joining the firm's Brussels office as partners, where they will play substantial roles in the firm’s global antitrust and competition practice.
18-05-2014: Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Ignasi Guardans as a partner in its Brussels office. A former member of the European and Spanish parliaments, Guardans boosts the firm’s growing European policy and regulatory practice.
18-03-2014: International TMT law firm Olswang strengthens its TMT offering with the arrival of new partner Sylvie Rousseau. Sylvie is registered at both the Brussels and the Paris bar and will operate from both the firm's Brussels and Paris offices.
17-03-2014: Belgian law firm Laga announced today the hire of Benoît Feron as partner in the Corporate team.
13-03-2014: The Brussels office will focus on EU and Member State competition litigation and investigations.
13-03-2014: Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that Julian Ellison has joined the firm as a partner in its Antitrust & Competition practice in Brussels. Previously, he was a partner in the Brussels office at Ashurst.
13-03-2014: Schoenherr, a leading corporate law firm in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), is expanding its EU and Competition practice with a reinforced and newly-staffed office in Brussels. Volker Weiss, a partner in Schoenherr's competition practice, will head the Belgium office.
10-03-2014: Bird & Bird is pleased to announce that it has appointed Efthymios Bourtzalas as a partner in its EU & Competition Group based in Brussels.
23-01-2014: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce it has elected five attorneys to the firm’s partnership effective January 1, 2014. The newly elected partners include Emmanuel Plasschaert, a partner in the Corporate and Labor & Employment groups and resident in the firm’s Brussels office.
18-09-2013: Global legal practice Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed EU competition partner Jay Modrall to its Brussels office. Jay joins from Cleary Gottlieb where he was a partner.
04-09-2013: Osborne Clarke has hired IP Partner Claire Bouchenard into the Paris office and Corporate Partner David Haex into the Brussels office.
03-09-2013: Dr. Georg M. Berrisch, who is recognized as one of the most experienced and effective litigators specializing in competition law, state aid and trade matters in the European Union (EU), has joined Baker Botts L.L.P. as a partner in the firm’s Brussels office.
03-09-2013: European antitrust practice further strengthened with addition of best-in-class practitioner.
03-09-2013: Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Lars Kjølbye will join the firm’s Brussels office as a partner in the Litigation Department. Kjølbye is widely recognized as a leading antitrust practitioner in Europe.
