Filip Tuytschaever

Filip Tuytschaever is a specialist in EU, competition and distribution law.

He advises companies and assists them before the EU Commission, the national competition authorities, the courts and international arbitration panels. He represented the EU Commission, the European Banking Authority and the Kingdom of Belgium before the Court of Justice of the EU.

Filip is a founding partner of contrast. He is also a professor of EU competition law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Brussels (VUB).

Filip Tuytschaever is a member of the Brussels Bar.

His publications include the books 'Vertical Agreements in EU Competition Law' (4th edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2025, with F. Wijckmans), 'Mededingingsrecht (competition law) (2nd edition, LeA Uitgevers 2025, 446 p., with H. Burez, F. Wijckmans and E. Wijckmans - in Dutch), 'Mededingingsrecht' (competition law) (2022, 377 p., with H. Burez, F. Wijckmans and E. Wijckmans - in Dutch), 'Vertical Agreements in EU Competition Law' (3rd edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2018, 462 p., with F. Wijckmans), ‘Distribution Agreements – EU – Belgium – Netherland’ (Brussels, Larcier 2018, 635 p., with F. Wijckmans a.o. – in Dutch), ‘Horizontal Agreements and Cartels in EU Competition Law’ (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2015, 512 p., ed. with F. Wijckmans) and ‘Differentiation in European Union Law’ (Oxford, Hart Publishing 1999, 298 p.).