Bas Braeken

Bas is a partner at bureau Brandeis. He is an experienced competition and antitrust lawyer. He is also a recognised specialist in the field of regulated markets (such as telecoms, media, sports, aviation, mail and parcels, fintech, data and mobility). Bas represents companies and their management in civil proceedings as well as before the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), the European Commission and the Bureau for Verification of Investments (in Dutch: Bureau Toetsing Investeringen, BTI). He has represented clients in more than 150 (both administrative law and civil) cases in the field of competition law, economic regulation and consumer protection rights, before both Dutch and European courts as well as before regulators. He defends companies in (alleged) cartels and during dawn raids and advises and litigates almost on a daily basis on foreign direct investments (Wet Vifo), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), forms of collaboration and state aid. Bas is involved in several high-profile follow-on competition cases (cartel damages cases), including in the financial and tech sector. Bas is seen as a trusted advisor and also often acts as counsel’s counsel for specific matters of (European) competition law, for example in the context of takeovers and joint ventures.

Bas studied in Leiden, Paris and London and was called to the bar in 2001. Before joining bureau Brandeis, he was a long-time employee of Allen & Overy (Amsterdam and Brussels) and one of the co-founders of a Dutch niche firm focusing on competition law. Bas has a great many publications to his name. He regularly gives presentations on competition law at conferences and seminars.