Europe
Practice Areas
Marc Kuijper is a partner in Dentons' Amsterdam office, Head of the EU Competition practice in the Netherlands and Co-Head of the Antitrust Litigation team. He also serves as Europe Co-Head of the Firm’s Competition and Antitrust practice group.
Marc regularly represents companies before the Netherlands and EU competition authorities, and before national courts and the European Court of Justice. He has advised and assisted numerous large companies in national and international cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, merger filings, state aid matters and compliance audits. Marc's work includes acting for a leniency applicant in a European Commission cartel investigation, acting for a company on the appeal from a national competition authority decision, acting for a company in a complex state aid procedure before the Dutch court. He also handles compliance work in relation to trade associations, joint purchasing organizations, joint ventures, e-commerce and vertically integrated companies.
Marc is known for his expertise and extensive track record in cartel damage cases. Current representations include acting as defence counsel to Japan Airlines in relation to antitrust damages claims that have been brought against several air cargo carriers in the Netherlands, as well as acting for several large multinational purchasers of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT’s) against former participants of the CRT cartel. Marc gives lectures on EU competition law at the Utrecht University and the Radboud University Nijmegen, and regularly publishes on EU and national competition law.
Professional Memberships
Member of the Netherlands Association for Competition Law
Member of the Netherlands Association for European Law (NVER)
Member of the Netherlands Association of Public Procurement Law (NVvA)
Member of the Dutch Bar Association
Lecturer at Utrecht University and Radboud University Nijmegen on Enforcement of Competition law
Member of the board of advisors of the Dr. J.A. Kuijper fund, which is a part of the Amsterdam University Foundation and has as the objective the financial support of Phd candidates in the field of International and European law
Career
Amsterdam Board Member, 2021 - present
Netherlands Managing Partner, Dentons, 2021 - 2024
Partner, Dentons, 2015 - present
Associate, Boekel, 2007-2015
Expert in these Jurisdictions
Competition and Antitrust, Global Compliance and Investigations, Financial Institutions, Government and Public Services, Industrial Production, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Technology