Thomas Vinje

Thomas Vinje provides counsel on European antitrust and intellectual property law, with a particular focus on technology issues.

He advises major corporations on all areas of antitrust law, including merger control, dominance and cartel cases, and cases involving the interface between competition and IP law.

Thomas has been a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the European Commission on unilateral conduct matters.

He speaks regularly on European Union intellectual property and antitrust law and has authored numerous articles and book contributions on these topics. He is a Professor II on the Law Faculty of the University of Bergen, Norway and often lectures at the University of Zurich. Thomas also sits on the Board of Editors for "Computer und Recht International" and "European Intellectual Property Review".

University of Washington (BA, Political Science and Norwegian) 1977

Columbia University School of Law, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and James Kent Scholar 1982

Admitted as an attorney in Hawaii 1983

Admitted as an attorney in California 1986

Joined Clifford Chance as a Partner 2004

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2007

Admitted as an avocat in Brussels 2018