Baker McKenzie LLP

Bram Hoorelbeke is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's European Competition & Regulatory Affairs group in Brussels. He started his career in 2007 as a lawyer in the EU, competition and regulatory department of a highly regarded Benelux law firm. Bram joined Baker McKenzie in 2017 and is the assistant editor of Competition, the leading review on Belgian Competition law.

In relation to EU competition law, Bram advises clients on a wide variety of competition law issues including merger notifications and Article 101 and 102 TFEU cases. Bram also advises on State aid cases and the application of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Bram also has extensive experience in government procurement procedures launched by European Union institutions. In addition, Bram deals with follow-on damage actions and competition-law-related claims before Belgian courts of law. Besides these competition-law-related matters, Bram advises clients on general EU law, such as free movement, customs, etc.

With regard to Belgian competition law, Bram assists clients in the notification and follow-up of concentrations, and in complaints and procedures before the Mededingingscollege/Collège de la concurrence (Belgian Competition Council) and the Belgian courts of law.

His sector experience includes fast-moving consumer goods, sports, the automotive industry, telecoms, platform economy, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor, chemicals and financial technologies.