ALTIUS

Commercial and Competition

Partner

Carmen Verdonck was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1996. She started as a Junior Associate in 1996 at Huysmans & Partners until 2000. From 2000 until 2002, she worked as an Associate at Huysmans Trenité Van Doorne. Between 2002 and 2006, she worked as a Senior Associate at ALTIUS. She was made Partner at ALTIUS in 2006.

Carmen advises a wide range of domestic and multinational clients about all aspects of Belgian and EU competition law, including cartel cases, distribution networks, technology transfer agreements, joint ventures, abuse(s) of dominance, and State aid matters. Carmen also represents clients in antitrust cases before the Belgian and European competition authorities and courts.

She regularly assists various multinational clients in the setting-up of compliance programmes and training. In merger control cases, Carmen assists clients in obtaining merger control clearance from the Belgian Competition Authority and the European Commission and in the coordination of merger filings in numerous other countries.

Carmen has also developed solid experience in providing advice on a broad range of complex contractual matters and the drafting of all types of commercial agreements.

She has been appointed an Assessor in the Belgian Competition Authority and Maître de Conférences at the University of Liège, teaching in the LLM in European Competition and IP law. Having written various publications on competition law, she regularly speaks on Belgian Competition and Commercial law at various conferences.

Carmen has been appointed as an expert in the Commission created under the law on pre-contractual information obligations in commercial cooperation agreements and is a member of the legal committee of the Belgian Franchising Federation.

She is fluent in Dutch, French and English, and speaks Spanish, German and Italian.

Carmen is President of the Belgian association for the study of competition law (AEDC) and the International League of Competition Law/ Ligue Internationale du Droit de la Concurrence (LIDC).

Additionally, Carmen is a member of the legal committee of the Belgian Franchising Federation (BFF), the Women's Competition Network (WCN) and the Association of Belgian competition lawyers (VBMa).

LL.M. in European law (University of Bristol) Erasmus Exchange Programme (Universität Bayreuth) Juris (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Juris (Université de Namur)