Johan Ysewyn

Johan is widely respected as a highly skilled European competition lawyer, advising on complex competition issues, including on merger control, anti-cartel enforcement, monopolisation cases and other conduct investigations. He acts as Co-Head of the firm's Global Competition group and as Managing Partner of the Brussels office.

Johan represents clients from around the world in dealings with competition authorities as well as in court litigation. He has in-depth knowledge of regulatory procedures and best practices as well as longstanding relationships with key regulators, in particular at the European Commission. He has also an active advisory practice covering a range of areas of interest to corporates, including the interplay between ESG goals and competition law, the impact of competition law enforcement on digital markets and broad strategic compliance issues.

He is the Chair of the Belgian Competition Lawyers Association and Professor of Cartel Law and Economics at the Brussels School of Competition.

Johan regularly speaks at conferences such as GCR, IBC, KNect365, Chatham House and other industry events and has written for numerous legal publications. He is the co-author of a number of competition treatises.