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The EU and competition team at Brinkhof is 'an absolute powerhouse'. The group fields extensive experience in advising on regulatory and contentious competition law issues, often for clients in the technology space. Digital regulation issues are another key area of instruction for the team. Pepijn van Ginneken has an excellent reputation for being 'one of the leading competition partners in the Dutch legal landscape', and co-heads the department with Quinten Kroes, who focuses on telecoms and technology matters. Remy Chavannes is 'an incredible strategist', and Hanneke Kooijman brings expertise in handling work concerning digital platforms.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The go-to firm for antitrust litigation.’

  • ‘Pepijn van Ginneken heads the practice and provides knowledgeable, thorough and strategic advice.’

  • ‘This team is unique in their knowledge of special care markets. They have the ability to perfectly understand your situation and the competence to make the difficult law material understandable. Simple, clear, quick, very pleasant and helpful.’

  • ‘Pepijn van Ginneken is one the leading competition partners in the Dutch Legal landscape and has been for many years now. He is very knowledgeable, practical and approachable as well as easy to work with.’

  • ‘Brinkhof's EU and competition law team is an absolute powerhouse. Each member of the team has their own unique strengths and together make a winning formula.'

  • 'Remy Chavannes is an incredible strategist with laser-focus who gets the job done.'

  • 'Pepijn van Ginneken knows competition law inside-out and is an absolute expert in his field and Philine van der Aalst has tremendous attention-to-detail and worked tirelessly to draft and bring our submissions over the line. What separates Brinkhof from other firms is that they dive right into problems with you and cares as much as the client does in getting the right outcome.'

  • ‘Remy Chavannes is a truly exceptional lawyer. He provides winning, strategic advice.'

Key clients

  • X
  • Heineken
  • Toshiba
  • Google
  • AB Inbev
  • Diageo
  • FedEx
  • Mediahuis
  • Crédit Agricole
  • Global Steel Wire
  • Spotta
  • Adrestia
  • Glasdraad
  • VCR (Dutch Association of Commercial Radio Broadcasters)
  • Mosadex
  • Eurofiber
  • NFZ

Work highlights

  • Acting for Google in a number of collective claim cases, which concern both follow-on as well as stand-alone claims.
  • Representing X before the European Commission in relation to its notification under the Digital Markets Act.
  • Representing a number of brewery groups, including Heineken, and other large companies in international follow-on damages litigation resulting from the trucks cartel.

Lawyers

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Leading associates
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Hanneke Kooijman
Brinkhof

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Pepijn van Ginneken, Quinten Kroes

Other key lawyers

Philine van der Aalst, Remy Chavannes, Boukje van der Maazen, Jan Pot, Hanneke Kooijman