About

Provided by Maverick Advocaten

Maverick Advocaten is the independent and leading competition law firm in the Netherlands. The team has vast experience at the top of the Dutch legal profession.

Maverick Advocaten provides advice on Dutch and EU competition law, including cartels, abuse of dominance, (second phase) merger control and cartel damage claims. Maverick Advocaten also frequently advises clients on economic regulation, consumer law and EU law (including state aid, unfair competition and procurement law). Maverick Advocaten regularly represents clients in proceedings before the Dutch and EU courts, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets, the European Commission and the Dutch Healthcare Authority.

Maverick Advocaten represents clients in a wide variety of sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, energy, transport, retail, media and communications.


Recent work:

Assisting a company in a European Commission dawn raid and investigation into alleged cartel prohibition violations in the synthetic turf sector

Representing a cartridge supplier in civil proceedings against Hewlett-Packard for allegedly abusing its dominant position on the printer and cartridges market and infringing the cartel prohibition with its selective distribution network

Representing International Air Transport Association (IATA) in civil proceedings regarding the interpretation of EU passenger rights regulation (261//2004)

Chambers Review

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Competition/European Law - Netherlands

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Maverick Advocaten is a competition law boutique that assists clients with contentious competition law matters, including representing them in cartel investigations and in disputes over selective distribution strategies. The team also acts on merger clearance mandates, including phase II investigations and appeals against prohibited mergers. The law firm has further experience in state aid matters.

Work Highlights

Provided by Maverick Advocaten

  • Maverick advised Strukton, as well as its subsidiary GBN Artificial Grass Recycling, on an investigation by the European Commission into allegations of cartel infringements.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Martijn Van de Hel
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Martijn Van de Hel
Head of Competition/European Law
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Band 3

Martijn Van de Hel has a broad competition law practice that covers investigations into alleged cartel infringements, state aid disputes and claimant-side work in private enforcement cases. He also brings to bear significant expertise on merger clearance, acting in complex phase II merger investigations.

Martijn Van de Hel was really on top of the latest-of-the-latest jurisprudence, and was able and willing to give advice on the spot.

Martijn Van de Hel feels like he's on my team - intellectually, emotionally and commercially. He commits to me when he's advising, as if I'm the only and most important client that he's had.

Martijn Van de Hel is a great guy to work with. He has the knowledge, ability and skills to unravel and solve the most complicated situations.

Martijn Van de Hel is extremely driven to get the best results for his clients, successfully helping to navigate numerous clients through the competition law landscape.

Martijn Van de Hel is a great expert lawyer and a nice person to work with.

Diederik Schrijvershof
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Diederik Schrijvershof
Head of Competition/European Law
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Band 4

Diederik Schrijvershof works on merger clearance notifications, as well as representing clients in challenges to ACM prohibition decisions. He has further experience in investigations into alleged abuses of dominance.

Diederik Schrijvershof has a lot of knowledge of our specific business, and is able to provide hands-on, practical advice.

Ranked Lawyers at
Maverick Advocaten

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Netherlands

Competition/European Law

Martijn Van de Hel
3
Martijn Van de Hel
Head of Competition/European Law
3
Band 3
Diederik Schrijvershof
4
Diederik Schrijvershof
Head of Competition/European Law
4
Band 4

Members

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Adriaan Craita

Annabel Kingma

Bas van Os

Cyriel Ruers

Diederik Schrijvershof

Diederik Schrijvershof

Head of Department

Judith Jansen

Leah Peeters

Martijn Van de Hel

Martijn Van de Hel

Head of Department

Mats Reijman

Paul Breithaupt

Saskia Stolk

Clients

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123inkt

Asker

Bayer

Booking

DPG Media

Decathlon

Eneco

Erasmus MC

Funda

Glaspoort

IATA

Ingka

KLM

KWS

LUMC

Lumileds

Mediq

Nordian

Parnassia Groep

RadboudUMC

Schiphol

Strukton

Vion

Waterland

de Bijenkorf