About

Provided by Maverick Advocaten

Maverick Advocaten is the independent and leading competition law firm in the Netherlands. The team has vast experience at the top of the Dutch legal profession.

Maverick Advocaten provides advice on Dutch and EU competition law, including cartels, abuse of dominance, (second phase) merger control and cartel damage claims. Maverick Advocaten also frequently advises clients on economic regulation, consumer law and EU law (including state aid, unfair competition and procurement law). Maverick Advocaten regularly represents clients in proceedings before the Dutch and EU courts, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets, the European Commission and the Dutch Healthcare Authority.

Maverick Advocaten represents clients in a wide variety of sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, FMCG, energy, transport, retail, media and communications.


Recent work:

Assisting a company in a European Commission dawn raid and investigation into alleged cartel prohibition violations in the synthetic turf sector

Representing a cartridge supplier in civil proceedings against Hewlett-Packard for allegedly abusing its dominant position on the printer and cartridges market and infringing the cartel prohibition with its selective distribution network

Representing International Air Transport Association (IATA) in civil proceedings regarding the interpretation of EU passenger rights regulation (261//2004)

Chambers Review

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Competition/European Law - Netherlands
3
Band 3
What the team is known for

Maverick Advocaten is a competition law boutique that assists clients with contentious competition law matters, including representing them in abuse of dominance investigations and in disputes over selective distribution strategies. The team also acts on merger clearance mandates, including assisting with appeals against prohibited mergers. The law firm has further experience in state aid matters. It is a popular choice with clients from the TMT and transportation sectors.

Work Highlights

Provided by Maverick Advocaten
  • Maverick represented Mediq in an appeal against the decision by the ACM to prohibit its proposed merger with Eurocept.

Notable Practitioners

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Martijn Van de Hel
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Martijn Van de Hel
Head of Competition/European Law
3
Band 3

Martijn Van de Hel has a broad competition law practice that covers investigations into alleged abuses of dominance, state aid disputes and multi-jurisdictional merger control filings.

"Martijn Van de Hel is a strong lawyer with a realistic view. He is able to quickly get to the core of the issues and is always willing to go the extra mile."

Diederik Schrijvershof
4
Diederik Schrijvershof
Head of Competition/European Law
4
Band 4

Diederik Schrijvershof assists clients with both merger clearance notifications and with investigations into alleged abuses of dominance.

Ranked Lawyers at
Maverick Advocaten

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Netherlands

Competition/European Law

Martijn Van de Hel
3
Martijn Van de Hel
Head of Competition/European Law
3
Band 3
Diederik Schrijvershof
4
Diederik Schrijvershof
Head of Competition/European Law
4
Band 4

Members

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Adriaan Craita

Annabel Kingma

Bas van Os

Cyriel Ruers

Diederik Schrijvershof

Diederik Schrijvershof

Head of Department

Judith Jansen

Leah Peeters

Martijn Van de Hel

Martijn Van de Hel

Head of Department

Mats Reijman

Paul Breithaupt

Saskia Stolk

Clients

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123inkt

Asker

Bayer

Booking

DPG Media

Decathlon

Eneco

Erasmus MC

Funda

Glaspoort

IATA

Ingka

KLM

KWS

LUMC

Lumileds

Mediq

Nordian

Parnassia Groep

RadboudUMC

Schiphol

Strukton

Vion

Waterland

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