Joost Fanoy

Practice Areas

* EU & Competition

* Agri & Food

* Cartel damages

* Procurement Law

* ESG

Career

Joost Fanoy is head of the EU & Competition practice group and a member head of the Cartel Damages team of BarentsKrans. He joined BarentsKrans in 2012 after eight years at other law firms. Joost specialises in European law in general with a particular focus on European and Dutch competition, public procurement and state aid law and has considerable experience in assisting companies with European and Dutch cartel and state aid proceedings as well as merger and joint venture filings with the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) and the European Commission. Furthermore, Joost consults and litigates extensively in cartel damages cases and on behalf of both contracting parties and contracting authorities in public procurement matters.

In addition, Joost has ample experience in assisting companies when reporting mergers, acquisitions and cooperation agreements to the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the European Commission. Joost is also experienced in reporting state aid to the European Commission and assisting companies and public authorities in complaint proceedings about alleged state aid before the European Commission. Joost provides in-house compliance and dawn raid training courses on all these subjects. He assists clients in various sectors, such as agriculture, healthcare, travel, IT and transport & logistics.

Professional Memberships

* Co-author of Sdu Dutch Code of Civil Procedure

* Chairman of the board of the Dutch Association of Competition Law

* Member of the Dutch Association for Public Procurement Law

* Member of and national reporter for the American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law

* Member of the Antitrust Section of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA)

* Contributor to European Competition law Review and Mededingingsrecht in Praktijk (competition law) and publishes regularly in Tijdschrift voor Europees en Economisch recht (European law), Markt & Mededinging (competition law), Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (European law) and Tijdschrift Aanbestedingsrecht (public procurement law)

* Lecturer The Academy for Government Lawyers and the Legal Academy