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Jonas Koponen

Jonas Koponen

Cooley LLP, Belgium

Position

Partner

Career

Jonas advises multinational companies on complex transactions and contentious competition investigations, as well as related dispute resolution. He is a highly regarded international competition lawyer and a recognized leader of the Brussels antitrust bar. Clients value Jonas’ combination of strategic intelligence, leading-edge advice, curiosity, flexibility and deep commercial understanding. He represents clients in a range of industries, with significant experience in the financial services, life sciences, healthcare, telecommunications, software and information technology sectors.

Jonas strategically advises his clients on complex M&A, investments and licensing transactions, including with respect to merger reviews by the European Commission and other enforcement agencies. He also counsels companies on internal and external investigations of business conduct and related litigation to address allegations of abuse of dominance, anticompetitive agreements and practices, and cartel behavior, including applications for immunity and leniency.

Jonas is a long-standing nongovernmental adviser to the International Competition Network (ICN) and currently advises the European Commission. He lectures on competition law at the Brussels School of Competition and has published extensively on international antitrust law.

Memberships

Swedish Bar Association

International Bar Association

American Bar Association - Section of Antitrust Law

European Competition Lawyers Forum

Education

Maastricht University LLM, Comparative and European Law, 1996

Lund University LLM, International Law and Legal Studies, 1995

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