Jacques Derenne

Practice Areas

Jacques has 30+ years of EU competition law experience, including mergers, cartels, abuses of dominance and State aid. He has a particular expertise in EU regulatory and related competition law issues in a number of highly regulated industries, including energy, the postal sector, aviation, railways, communications and tobacco products. Jacques regularly appears at competition hearings before the EU and pleads cases before the General Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union, national competition authorities, the Belgian and French courts and various regulatory bodies.

Professional Memberships

Avocat, member of the Brussels and Paris Bars

Professor (chargé de cours à temps partiel), University of Liège

Professor, Brussels School of Competition

Publications

Jacques co-directed and co-authored studies for the European Commission on the enforcement of State aid rules at the national level (2006 and 2009), which contributed to the Commission's Recovery and Enforcement Notices in 2007 and 2009 respectively.

He co-edited a book on the Enforcement of EU State aid law at national level - 2010 - Reports from the 27 Member States (Lexxion, October 2010), and has written quarterly comments on State aid case law and the Commission’s decisional practice in the journal Concurrences since 2004 (together with EU officials).