EU and competition

Bird & Bird

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.

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Testimonials

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‘Key aspects of the team lie in its collaboration and approach.'
'Bird & Bird has a low-threshold attitude, is directly approachable and responds quickly.'
'Both at partner level and in support, they are well-informed about current situations in procurement law and know how to summarise questions quickly and answer them adequately with good advice.'
'In interlocutory proceedings, they proved to choose a good procedural line and worked this out perfectly.'
'Accessible, human and sharp.’
‘Janneke Kohlen and Tialda Beetstra are very approachable, very pleasant interlocutors and know how to very quickly and adequately answer the questions at hand when it comes to advice. Both are very knowledgeable and pleasant to work with.’
‘Strong legal expertise in the team.’
‘Top lawyers who provide high-quality advice.’

Key clients

T-Mobile Netherlands B.V.
Cellnex Telecom S.A.
Salta (formerly NCOI) Holding B.V.
Computrain Opleidingen B.V.
Tempur Sealy
PPG
Open Dutch Fiber BV
Marshall Land Systems Ltd.
Blackboard International B.V.
Corbion N.V.
NLdigital
Epson

Work highlights

Advised and represented T-Mobile in all competition law matters including its judicial intervention in the merger control proceeding at the Dutch competition authority concerning the joint venture between KPN and APG.
Advised Royal A-ware on the take-over of a producer of grated cheese in the Netherlands, Noordhoek.
Represented PostNL in appeal proceedings before the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal.