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Provided by Janneke Kohlen
Competition & EU Law
Public Procurement Law
Janneke is a partner in our Competition & EU Law Group in The Hague where she specialises in competition law and public procurement law, advising on contentious and non-contentious matters for a broad variety of our clients.
With in-depth experience in merger control, cartel cases and the abuse of dominance, Janneke also has broad expertise in acting as a compliance officer in meetings with competitors. In addition, her practice also consists of advising on distribution agreements and she frequently provides in-house competition compliance programmes and training to clients. This comes along with extensive experience in drafting codes of conducts for companies, with a focus on competition law.
Janneke advises a variety of our clients on issues throughout the public procurement process, from reviewing tender documents and advising clients on the questions to ask procuring entities, to representing companies in court.
After being admitted to the bar in 2005, Janneke worked for another top tier law firm here in the Netherlands before joining Bird & Bird in 2009, where she was promoted to partner in 2017.
As well as being a member of our Tech & Comms Group, Janneke is a member of the Dutch Associations for Competition Law and Public Procurement Law. In addition to publishing regularly, she is a co-editor of the European and Economic chapter of the Dutch journal 'Juridisch Up To Date' ('Legally Up To Date').
Member of the Dutch Associations for Competition Law and Public Procurement Law.
Studied:
Grotius, Aanbestedingsrecht
Tilburg University
Admissions:
The Hague Bar, Netherlands in 2005
Provided by Chambers
Janneke Kohlen's broad competition law practice covers behavioural investigations and damages actions, as well as merger control filings and the competition law compliance aspects of distribution schemes.
Provided by Chambers
She is great, nice and down to earth. She is good to work with.
Janneke Kohlen gives you a very comfortable feeling that you're at the right address.
She is very quick, very knowledgeable in her field of expertise but also very capable in understanding our specific business.
She is great, nice and down to earth. She is good to work with.
Janneke Kohlen gives you a very comfortable feeling that you're at the right address.
She is very quick, very knowledgeable in her field of expertise but also very capable in understanding our specific business.