Mai Muto

Counsel Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Brussels +32 (2) 2376140

Mai Muto

Mai Muto is an antitrust and competition lawyer based in Brussels. Mai focuses her practice on European competition law matters, including cartels, merger control, and abuse of dominance. She represents clients in global cartel investigations, cartel damages negotiations, and merger control reviews. Mai counsels multinational companies on distribution issues and antitrust compliance matters. She also advises clients on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation and the Digital Markets Act as well as other EU regulatory matters, such as whistleblowing systems.

Prior to starting her legal career in Brussels, Mai worked in the services sector in Japan and in a Tokyo law firm.

Mai is a Japan-qualified lawyer (bengoshi), also registered at the Brussels Bar. Mai is Vice-Chair of the Information Committee of the Daiichi Tokyo Bar.

Professional experience

Education

Master of European Law (LLM), College of Europe

Social Psychology (Bachelor of Arts), University of Tokyo

Admissions

Registered at the Daiichi Tokyo Bar, Japan
Registered at the Brussels Bar

Publications

"Overview and Recent Developments in the Digital Markets Act (DMA)" as part of the "Special Feature: the Japanese Act on the Promotion of Competition in Relation to Specified Software Used in Smartphones", Faire Trade, No. 889, Faire Trade Institute, November 2024
"EU Competition Law Compliance - Anti-Competitive Conduct and Abuse of Dominance -", Faire Trade, No. 882, Faire Trade Institute, April 2024
"The EU Commission fines a French manufacturing distributor of educational material and its Belgian exclusive distributor €60,000 and €1,000 respectively for parallel sales restrictions and for resale price maintenance (Nathan/Bricolux)", 5 July 2000, e-Competitions July 2000, Art. N° 116083, Concurrences, December 2023
"EU Batteries Regulation", Kokusai Shoji Homu (International Business Law and Practice), Vol 51, No. 11, the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, November 2023
"EU Proposal for a Directive on Green Claims to Combat Greenwashing", Kokusai Shoji Homu (International Business Law and Practice), Vol 51, No. 10, the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, October 2023
"EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation", Kokusai Shoji Homu (International Business Law and Practice), Vol.51, No.8, the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, August 2023
"EU Proposed Regulation on Products Made with Forced Labour", Kokusai Shoji Homu (International Business Law and Practice), Vol.51, No.7, the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, July 2023
"EU Competition Policy Contributing to the EU Green Deal", International Business Law Executive Summary, No. 42, the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, December 2020
"2020 EU Competition Law Review", Shojihomu Portal, SH3449, Shojihomu Co. Ltd., January 2021
"EU Proposal for Digital Markets Act", Shojihomu Portal, SH3481, Shojihomu Co. Ltd., February 2021
"European Commission's New Guidance on Merger Case Referrals", International Business Law Executive Summary, No. 49, the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, June 2020