Ms Pauline Kuipers > Bird & Bird > The Hague, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Pauline Kuipers
Work Department
EU and competition, Media and entertainment, Telecoms
Position
Pauline leads our Competition and Public Procurement Practices and co-heads our Media Group in the Netherlands. With almost 20 years of experience, Pauline specialises in EU and Dutch competition law in regulated markets. Her team deals with cartel procedures, abuse of dominance matters, merger notifications to the Dutch competition authority and European Commission as well as coordination of multiple merger filings, private enforcement actions, competition regulation of network industries as well as the media sector and competition rules on undertakings granted special or exclusive rights by the state including state aid. Her practice also includes public procurement law. Her previous experience in intellectual property law has given her specific expertise to advise in matters on the verge between competition law and intellectual property, such as licensing arrangements and other technology transfer agreements, standardisation discussions, refusal to license, FRAND licensing, abuse of IP rights etc. She is also a member of the Communications and Life Sciences Groups of Bird & Bird.
Career
Pauline joined Bird & Bird in 2001 as one of the founding lawyers of the office of Bird & Bird in The Hague. She teaches competition law in the Professional Education for In-House Lawyers (SBB) and regularly publishes on competition law topics.
Languages
Dutch and English
Memberships
Dutch Competition Law Association (VvM), International League of Competition Law (LIDC), Dutch Association for Media and Communication Law (VMC), Association for Public Procurement Law (NvvA), Licensing Executives Society (LES)
Education
Pauline was admitted to the bar in 1995.
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > EU and competition
(Leading partners)Bird & Bird‘s EU and competition practice, based in The Hague, is formed of ‘top lawyers who provide high-quality advice’ to a host of high-profile clients. Team lead Pauline Kuipers has impressive experience handling the array of matters, namely in the telecoms, media and postal sectors. Janneke Kohlen is also key to the team, with expertise in both competition and public procurement matters. Its workload ranges from advising on all aspects of mergers, to defending in alleged violations of EU competition regulations.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Media and entertainment
- Industry focus: telecoms
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: trade marks, copyrights and design rights
Firm Rankings
- Energy
- Fintech
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: retail
- Project finance and PFI
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- EU and competition
- Insurance
- Tax
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Employment
- Commercial, corporate and M&A