Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie is pleased to announce the arrival of a new Energy & Infrastructure team in Brussels, effective 1 November. The team includes David Haverbeke (Partner), Wouter Vandorpe (Partner), Nicolas Celis (Counsel), Guillian Baclin (Associate), and Emilie Malivert (Associate), and joins from Fieldfisher.

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Gibson Dunn announced today that Adam Dawson has joined the firm’s Brussels office as a partner in its Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. Dawson arrives at Gibson Dunn from Baker Botts.

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Eversheds Sutherland has strengthened its privacy and cyber security experience across the Benelux region with the appointment of its latest lateral partner hire, Maarten Stassen. Maarten joins the firm’s TMT team in Brussels from Crowell & Moring bringing extensive knowledge working both in-house and as external counsel to private and public sector clients across the globe.

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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Lena Sandberg as a partner in its Antitrust, Competition, and Trade Regulation practice. Sandberg joins the firm’s Brussels office from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery bolsters its Antitrust Practice Group in Brussels with the addition of Axel Schulz as partner. Axel is a distinguished antitrust lawyer with experience handling high-profile competition cases before the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, with emphasis on merger control, cartel defense and antitrust disputes. His arrival further boosts the Firm’s European competition capabilities: Axel will work alongside teams lead by Hendrik Viaene, Stéphane Dionnet and Jacques Buhart in Brussels; Christian Krohs, Carina Kant and Dr. Laura Stammwitz in Germany; Frédéric Pradelles in Paris; and the Firm’s US antitrust team. Schulz arrives from White & Case.

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Eversheds Sutherland has announced the strategic international hire of Marjolein De Backer as a Partner in its Competition, Trade & Foreign Investment practice in Brussels. Marjolein joins from global law firm, Dechert, where she helped to re-launch its Brussels-based competition practice.

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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that Jindrich Kloub has joined the firm’s antitrust and competition department as a partner in the Brussels office. Kloub’s more than 10 years of service at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition and his most recent Hong Kong Competition Commission (HKCC) role illustrate the range of his enforcement agency experience and connections. His addition fortifies Wilson Sonsini’s acclaimed antitrust and competition practice in the United States and Europe. Most recently, Kloub was executive director of operations at the HKCC, where he was responsible for all antitrust enforcement since 2017. 

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Global law firm Ashurst announces the appointment of Esther Kelly as partner in its competition practice, based in Brussels. Kelly joins Ashurst from the Brussels office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

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