• LLM, London School of Economics, 2007
• Law degree, University of Louvain (UCL, Belgium), 2006 (magna cum laude)

• Avocat au Barreau de Bruxelles

Advising:*

• QatarEnergy – on competition law related aspects of its North Field East and North Field South LNG expansion project
• Allianz Capital Partners – on its acquisition from BASF of a stake in the Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) offshore wind farm
• Enerflex – on all merger control aspects relating to its acquisition of Exterran Corporation
• GFG Alliance – on the acquisition of the aluminium rolling divestment business in the US$2.2bn Novelis/Aleris merger
• ELG Haniel and Mitsubishi Corporation – on their carbon fibre recycling JV
• ELG Haniel – on all merger control aspects relating to the acquisition of sole control over its JV with Iberinox
• Gemalto – on its €4.8bn acquisition by Thales Group
• Zen-Noh, Amaggi and Louis Dreyfus – on Zen-Noh's acquisition of a 33 percent interest in Amaggi and Louis Dreyfus' existing Brazilian JV
• Gemalto – on its acquisition of 3M's Identity Management Business
• Rofin-Sinar – on its $942m acquisition by Coherent
• Rosneft – on its acquisition of TNK-BP
• HP – on a dispute with Oracle over Itanium chips
• ARM Limited, Giesecke & Devriendt and Gemalto - on their JV in the field of trusted execution environments for secure applications
• Merck – on its proposed, but ultimately abandoned, animal health JV with Sanofi-Aventis (awarded "Deal of the Year 2011" by GCR)
• TPG – on numerous acquisitions, including IMS Health, Ontex, Exception Group Limited, Britannia Living Group Limited, Brookgate Limited, and Romanes Media Group.

(* including from previous firm)

• "EU merger control: the failing firm defence and counterfactuals in the time of Covid-19", The M&A Lawyer · Sep 1, 2020.
• "Gun Jumping: An Overview of EU and National Case Law", Concurrences, Art. N° 92519 · Apr 20, 2020.
• "Are European Digital Services Taxes Illegal State Aid?Are European Digital Services Taxes Illegal State Aid?", KNect365 · Sep 26, 2019.
• "EU Investigations into Tax Rulings Raise Novel Issues for M&A Counterparties" (co-author: J. Modrall and D. Stuttaford), The M&A Lawyer, May 2015.
• "EU Merger Control in Distressed Company Transactions" (co-author: J. Modrall), The M&A Lawyer, June 2013.

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