About

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The Dentons EU & Competition Team has a very clear focus on, and is highly specialized in:

  • Antitrust litigation  
  • Cartel investigations
  • Complex compliance issues, e.g. regarding large purchasing organizations 
  • Merger control and cooperation agreements
  • European law and state aid 
  • Public procurement. In this field we have considerably enhanced our capabilities with the recent hire of procurement and competition and antitrust lawyer Bram Braat.

Our practice is also active in other core competition work, such as dominance, joint venture and distribution agreements and has ample experience in the health care, retail and distribution, agriculture, food and automotive industries.

The team is headed by partners Marc Kuijper and further comprises partners Bram Braat, Anouk Rosielle and associate Denise Coumans. Michel Deckers, partner and head of Dispute Resolution, is part of the team where antitrust litigation is concerned.

The lawyers have specific focus areas; antitrust litigation/private enforcement (Marc Kuijper,  Michel Deckers, Bram Braat and Anouk Rosielle), healthcare (Bram Braat), public procurement (Bram Braat, Marc Kuijper), cartel investigations and compliance (Marc Kuijper), joint purchasing organizations (Marc Kuijper) and European law and state aid (Marc Kuijper).

Chambers Review

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Competition/European Law - Netherlands

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Band 4

What the Team is Known For

The team at Dentons has experience representing claimants and defendants in cartel follow-on damages actions. The law firm further acts for clients on behavioural investigations and merger filings. It additionally advises on contentious state aid matters and assists clients with competition law compliance advice. The team is often instructed by clients from the transport and technology sectors.

Work Highlights

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  • Dentons advised a federation of rail operators in a major state aid dispute, against a concession awarded by the Dutch State to the incumbent state-owned rail operator.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Marc Kuijper
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Marc Kuijper
Head of Competition/European Law
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Band 2

Marc Kuijper offers experience acting for both defendants and claimants on cartel damages actions. He also advises on state aid matters and competition compliance.

Marc Kuijper’s strategic insight and commitment to assembling the right expertise ensures we have the support we need for complex legal matters.

Marc Kuijper is legally very skilled, easy to approach and very quick in his responses.

Marc Kuijper is someone with great stature in the field - he's outstanding. He's also able to make a difficult case simple, so that we can understand it better and make better choices.

Marc Kuijper is a great person to work with, with a high skill level and trustworthiness.

Marc Kuijper has created a partnership with us that goes beyond client/adviser. He represents the preferred point of contact for those legal matters that our company cannot solve by ourselves.

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Competition/European Law

Marc Kuijper
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Marc Kuijper
Head of Competition/European Law
2
Band 2

Members

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Bram Braat

Marc Kuijper

Marc Kuijper

Head of Department

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