Dentons

EU, Competition & Regulatory, Antitrust Litigation

Netherlands Managing Partner

Marc Kuijper is the Managing Partner of Dentons in Amsterdam and Head of the EU Competition practice in the Netherlands. In addition, Marc is Co-head of the Antitrust Litigation team.

Marc regularly represents companies before the Netherlands and EU competition authorities, and before national courts and the European Court of Justice. He has advised and assisted numerous large companies in national and international cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, merger filings, state aid matters and compliance audits. Marc's work includes acting for a leniency applicant in a European Commission cartel investigation, acting for a company on the appeal from a national competition authority decision, acting for a company in a complex state aid procedure before the Dutch court. He also handles compliance work in relation to trade associations, joint purchasing organizations, joint ventures, e-commerce and vertically integrated companies.

Marc is known for his expertise and extensive track record in cartel damage cases. Current representations include acting as defence counsel to Japan Airlines in relation to antitrust damages claims that have been brought against several air cargo carriers in the Netherlands, as well as acting for several large multinational purchasers of Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT’s) against former participants of the CRT cartel. Marc gives lectures on EU competition law at the Utrecht University and the Radboud University Nijmegen, and regularly publishes on EU and national competition law.

Marc is a member of the Association for Competition Law (VvM), the Dutch Association for European Law (NVER) and the Dutch Association of Public Procurement Law (NVvA). Marc regularly publishes in legal journals on Dutch and European competition law and is co-author of the quarterly contribution on competition law in Ars Aequi, the largest legal journal of the Netherlands. Next to that, Marc is a guest lecturer at Utrecht University on private enforcement of competition law.

Leiden University, 2007, LL.M., International and European Law

Delft University of Technology, 2002, Mechanical Engineering

Wittenberg University, 1999, Liberal Arts and Sciences

European School Brussels (Belgium), 1998, European Baccalaureate